Short, calm explainers for people learning to watch stocks, ETFs, and crypto — the same concepts the Portfolio Sweep app uses every day, written the way the app explains them. Free to read, free to print, no account.
The printable one-pager to pull up when something you watch drops and your thumb starts moving. Print it, keep it near the screen.
Every concept the app rotates as its daily card lives here permanently — read them in any order, or work through the list top to bottom.
A single basket holding many investments at once — the calmest place most beginners start.
The slow trend line that says whether the long-term drift is up or leaning down.
The faster trend line — dropping below one it held is called breaking support.
A 0–100 gauge for whether something just rose fast or fell hard.
The first question to ask when something drops: did everything drop, or just this?
How jumpy a price normally is — so a routine swing is not mistaken for news.
The level a price keeps bouncing off — and what it means when it stops bouncing.
Investing a fixed amount on a schedule, so timing the market is not the job.
The full A–Z list is the plain-English glossary.
A printable worksheet on Portfolio Sweep's framework: trend, market context, momentum, volatility — and your actual reason.
Last reviewed: November 8, 2026