About IntegralStocks
IntegralStocks is a free stock site for people who don't already speak finance. Track live prices, read the news, and get a plain-English note on why a stock actually moved — no jargon required.
Who it's for
New investors, students, and anyone who wants to understand the market without wading through paywalls or a chart that looks like a cockpit.
What we do differently
- Plain-English summaries on every ticker — what the company does, and what moved the price today.
- AI insights that tie news to the actual price action.
- A free paper-trading simulator, so you can practice with fake money before risking real money.
- Market news, screeners, and an economic calendar, all in one place.
Have feedback? Get in touch. Our disclaimer and data sources page cover how the site actually works.
Why we built this
By William Wolenski, founder of IntegralStocks.
I got tired of finance sites assuming you already had an econ degree. Every "beginner" explainer still buried the point under jargon, and every real-time chart looked like a cockpit dashboard. So I built the site I wish had existed when I first tried to figure out what a P/E ratio was.
The goal isn't to tell you a stock dropped 3% — anyone can do that. It's to say why: a bad earnings call, a product launch, a rate decision, or just the market having a bad day. That's the part that actually teaches you something, so that's the part our AI summaries focus on.
The simulator exists for the same reason. You get $100,000 in fake money to build a portfolio, place real trades, and mess up without it costing you anything. Losing fake money teaches you more than reading ten articles about risk management ever will.
The lessons are short on purpose. A handful of pages — what a stock is, how to read a chart, which indicators matter, which patterns traders actually watch — instead of a hundred articles you'll never finish. Pair that with the glossary and you can look up anything mid-read.
This is built with teenagers and first-time investors in mind especially. Most schools don't teach this stuff, and the earlier you understand compounding and risk, the more it pays off over a lifetime — literally.
A few rules we hold ourselves to: we're not a brokerage and we don't give financial advice, so we won't pretend to know where the market's headed next. Nothing here is paywalled. And if a concept needs jargon to explain, we define the jargon right there instead of assuming you already know it.
Markets are always going to be a little uncertain — that's not something a website fixes. But understanding what's actually happening beats guessing, every time. That's what this site is for.