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Trigger: At a Play Store near you

Trigger for Android is here.

Today, we’re delighted to introduce Trigger for Android, bringing us one step closer towards triggering on the wealth of data and fostering rules based investing to the millions of users worldwide.

Twitter Triggers 🐦

After the response to Trump Triggers, we decided to create more granular and powerful ways for investors to trigger on Twitter feeds — including triggers on custom accounts, @ mentions of specific tickers and $cashtags, and interpretations of tweet sentiment. Finally, you can have that Oprah…

Trump Triggers 🇺🇸

We are excited to announce the release of our latest trigger type: Trump Triggers! 💥 This trigger gives you the ability to trade stocks based off of Trump’s tweets about public companies. This one-of-a-kind trigger notifies you when President-Elect Trump tweets about a publicly traded stock…

5 Jargon Words Explained in Finance — “Fed” aka Federal Reserve Edition

The Fed probably plays the most crucial role in the US economy and in the world economy. Yet most people have little idea how the Fed works, what it actually does and why its decisions have so much impact…

7 Jargon Words Explained in Finance — Brokerage Edition

Opening a brokerage account can be intimidating, and even more so when the words and jargon on the screens sound more like calculus than dollars and sense. We’d like to break down the 7 most common concepts and jargon words you hear…

What’s new in Trigger: Trading, Real-time Currencies, and More

We launched just over a month ago, and we’ve been amazed by the response so far: over $60M in assets have been linked to Trigger, and users are trigger-ing on over 5,000 different data points. It’s been exciting to see the…

Introducing Trigger

Exactly 1 year ago, we started a company called Trigger Finance. Our mission was simple, to inspire all investors to invest rationally through a simple rules-driven approach.

Anyone who’s ever bought or sold a stock will know; often times an emotion, like fear or…

What makes a good trigger?

Understanding how different Trigger types can minimize risk and capture…

What is a Trigger

A trigger is a simple, yet powerful IF THIS THEN THAT statement that can turn any financial or world event into an action on your portfolio. A trigger will get “triggered” or “fired” whenever the event that you cared about occurs, like if GOOG last traded price went above $80o or if the Federal…