The Socrates Platform is a unique software-as-a-service tool designed for researching the patterns, trends and cyclical activity of global financial markets.
Unlike other services that focus primarily on fundamental analysis with short-term time horizons, Socrates utilizes proprietary computer models that employ cyclical and technical analysis methodologies to let the data tell the story of long-term market performance.
This approach allows any Socrates user — whether beginner or financial professional — to gain a broader perspective on market movement that can help anticipate changes and identify potential opportunities.
What Market Data Does Socrates Provide?
The Socrates Platform has daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly and yearly data on over 1,000 financial instruments from around the world (Covered Markets) — democratizing financial market research with access to information previously only available to industry professionals. Our platform covers:
- Stocks and Indices: Technical analysis of individual stocks and all major stock indices.
- Commodities: Includes major commodities like wheat, soy, gold, silver, and oil, among others.
- Forex (Currencies): Fluctuations of major currency pairs and foreign exchange markets.
- ETFs: Tracking performance of popular exchange traded funds, including stock and multi-asset ETFs.
- Bonds: Covering key government bonds and yields.
- Cryptocurrencies: Leading cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin and Ethereum.
- Economic Indicators: Key indicators like GDP and CPI from G7 and other major countries.
Given the emphasis on trends, patterns and cycles of financial markets, Socrates only adds Covered Markets with years-worth of historical data. By focusing on long-term datasets — often spanning multiple decades — Socrates' proprietary models can more effectively apply cyclical and technical analysis to end-of-day open, high, low and close price data to produce computer-generated content and indicators for users to research.
What Are Socrates’ Proprietary Models?
Socrates' advanced computer models were built on the principles of technical analysis, a belief in market cycles, and an acknowledgement that physics are a driving force in financial market movement. From pattern recognition, to momentum, pressure points in price movement, and cyclical timing conditions, these models offer Socrates' users unbiased, data-driven insights and indicators to study.
Our models are unique to Socrates and were created over decades of research and development. They objectively analyze data from financial markets around the world, looking at current behavior and benchmarking it against historical performance. The computer-generated observations empower users to better understand market dynamics, which can lead to more strategic and informed investment and trading decisions.
Each of our models analyze market behavior across three independent time levels; daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, and yearly. They also take into account how performance can differ based on a currency view. This offers a big picture view of financial markets.
What Features and Technical Analysis Tools Does Socrates Offer?
The Socrates Platform offers easy-to-use features and technical analysis tools to support your market research. Key features include:
- Historical Data: Quick access to historical performance of each Covered Market.
- User-Friendly Interface: We leave the complexity of our models behind the scenes.
- Customizable Watchlists: Track the financial markets you care about most, in an easy-to-setup watchlist.
- Global Capital Flow Heat Map: Track the big picture of the inflows and outflows for major countries around the world, and track the patterns using our proprietary Global Market Watch.
- Advanced Charting Tools: Price charts enhanced with studies from our proprietary models, with more technical analysis options in our fullscreen advanced charting.
- Computer-Generated Analysis Text: We employ natural language processing to translate and contextualize observations and insights directly from our computer models every day, for every Covered Market — free from human bias.
- Market Movers: Keep a pulse on the financial markets experiencing significant movement on a daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly and yearly basis.
- Grid View: A unique multi-market screen for key markets — only available to Pro and Enterprise members.
- Market Finder: Advanced search tool allows users to query our entire database to find markets that meet specific criteria based on our proprietary computer models — exclusive for Enterprise members.
Getting Started with Socrates
Once you create a new account (register), you can sign up for a membership plan that will grant you access to the Socrates Platform. Each plan caters to different level of research interests or needs, ensuring you only pay for what you want access to.
For an in-depth comparison of our different membership plans, read our short guide: What Socrates Platform Membership Plan Is Right For You? In addition to our standard price charts and data user can study at any level of membership, here’s a short description of each membership level:
- Basic Membership: Intended for a general audience, this plan is your entry point to the world of global financial market activity. Among other things, Basic members can access Monthly, Quarterly and Yearly Global Market Watch and Indicating Ranges for all Covered Markets.
- Plus Membership: Aimed at mid to long-term investors, Plus Membership is best for delving deeper into financial markets, adding Weekly time level for our Global Market Watch and Indicating Ranges. Plus members can also set up multiple Watchlists (Basic members have one Watchlist).
- Pro Membership: Designed for active investors, traders, and financial professionals, this plan is ideal for comprehensive market analysis. Pro members have access to our full Global Market Watch and Indicating Ranges for all Covered Markets, and can also add premium market subscriptions to access Reversals and Timing Arrays.
- Enterprise License: For our most advanced users and institutional clients with multiple users who are well versed in technical analysis and our proprietary models. This annual license unlocks everything the Socrates Platform currently has to offer, including our unique Market Finder tool along with Quarterly and Yearly time levels of Reversals and Timing Arrays for licensed markets.
Unlock the Power of Market Research with the Socrates Platform
Alongside our advanced proprietary computer models, the Socrates Platform provides a comprehensive suite of analysis tools, features, and indicators to empower your global financial market research. Become a student of technical analysis and market cycles to help better understand the market and make better investing decisions.
Want to learn more about how the Socrates Platform compares with other market research platforms? Read our Buyer’s Guide to Socrates vs. Competitors. Or explore our membership plans to find a version of Socrates that works for you.
