What Ask will not do
It will not trade, will not tell you what to buy, will not guess a number and will not change your account without a yes. The limits, and why each one is there.
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It will not place a trade
stocksbrew does not connect to a brokerage. Ask has no way to buy or sell anything. If you ask it to, it says so and offers research instead.
It will not tell you what to buy or sell
Ask lays out what the data says and what would change the picture. It does not know your finances, your taxes or your other holdings, so it does not give personal advice. A question like which of these is cheaper on free cash flow gets a direct answer. A question like should I buy this gets the evidence on both sides.
It will not guess
- No lookup result, no number.
- When there is no confirmed reason for a price move, it says: We have not found a confirmed reason for the move.
- It does not forecast a price or a return.
- A backtest is always called simulated, with its period.
It will not change your account on its own
Ask can suggest adding names to your portfolio or setting a price alert (alerts are part of Pro). Each suggestion arrives as a card with a Confirm button. Nothing is saved until you press it, and Ask is instructed never to say something was saved when it was only proposed.
Limits
| Limit | Value |
|---|---|
| Questions per day | None signed out (sign in to ask), 3 on Free, 50 on Pro. The count resets at midnight UTC. |
| Length of one question | 2,000 characters. |
| Lookups per answer | Up to 8 rounds, then it has to write. |
| Conversation memory | The last 16 turns are sent back to the model. |
What it is weak at
- Anything outside our coverage. A stock we do not cover gets a short answer.
- Very recent events. A headline from the last few minutes may not be on the wire yet.
- Long multi-step analysis. It is built for a question and an answer, not a twenty-page report.
- Reading documents you paste. It answers from our data, not from text you supply.
Read next
- How sources work in AskAsk is a chat that answers from our data. Every figure in an answer has to come from a lookup made in that conversation, and the lookup is shown to you.
- What stocksbrew is and is notA research and tracking tool for US stocks. It reads the market for the names you own or watch and tells you what changed. It never touches your money.
- What is written by a model and what is notA plain list of which parts of the product a language model writes, which parts are arithmetic or copied from a source, and how the two are kept apart.
Something here wrong or unclear? Tell us. Informational only, not investment advice.