DES
Description
AAPL DES
Start here. Business overview, real-time price chart, market cap, EPS estimates and analyst ratings for any stock.
A stock research workflow in Godel Terminal, command by command
This is a complete research pass on a single name — orientation, news, filings, numbers, street view, ownership, context, optionality — using only commands that appear in Godel Terminal's own documentation. Each step names the command, what its documentation says it shows, and the question it answers in the pass. The starter guide covers your first 30 minutes in the product; this page is what a full working session looks like after that.
How this page is built: every behavioural claim is drawn from the command's own documentation page, harvested and verified against Godel Terminal's sitemap. We have not sat a trading desk with it, and we don't pretend otherwise — what we can promise is that every command below is real, current, and checkable at godelterminal.com/docs/commands/<mnemonic>.
1. Orient
One screen to know what the company is, what it is worth, and what is coming up.
2. What is moving it
Before reading a single filing, know what the market is reacting to right now.
N
News
NVDA N
The name-specific feed. Real-time and historical news, filterable by source, ticker, language and keyword.
TOP
Top News
TOP
The macro tape. A live feed of the top Reuters news headlines, ranked directly by Reuters.
TAS
Time and Sales
SPY TAS
The microstructure. Streams every individual trade for a security as it happens: price, size, venue and condition code.
HALT
Market Halts
HALT
If something looks frozen. Today’s U.S. market trading halts from the official Nasdaq trader feed, including reason codes and resumption times.
3. Verify against primary sources
The step most retail workflows skip. Narrative comes from coverage; verification comes from documents.
CF
Filings
TSLA CF
The filings themselves. SEC EDGAR filings from a company’s inception through today: 10-Ks, 10-Qs, 8-Ks, proxies and more, rendered inside the workspace.
TRAN
Earnings Hub
TRAN
What management actually said. Searches earnings calls: full-text search across firms, quarters and years, with direct-link citations.
4. The numbers
FA
Financials
MSFT FA
The statements. Income statement, balance sheet and cash-flow statement standardized across every company, quarterly and annual.
DVD
Dividend Yield
KO DVD
The payout record. Dividend history and yield metrics for a security: trailing yield, forward yield, ex-dividend and payment dates.
HP
Historical Prices
AAPL HP
The price history, exportable. A security’s historical prices as a daily or intraday table: OHLCV exportable to Excel or JSON.
HCP
Historical Change %
AAPL HCP
Day-by-day moves in table form. A daily table of historical price changes for a security: one row per trading day with absolute change, percent change and full OHLCV.
5. What the street thinks
EM
Earnings Matrix
AMZN EM
Consensus, with history. A company’s fundamental metric history alongside forward analyst estimates, with the valuation multiples they imply.
ERN
Earnings Estimates
MSFT ERN
How good the estimates have been. Analyst consensus earnings estimates alongside the company’s estimate-versus-actual track record.
ANR
Analyst Ratings
NVDA ANR
Ratings and targets. Analyst ratings, consensus price targets and recommendations on any publicly traded company.
6. Who owns it, who is against it
HDS
Holders
AAPL HDS
The institutional register. Institutional ownership for any company: owner name, market value, share amount, change and change percentage.
SI
Short Interest
GME SI
The short side. Short interest for a security over time: short positions, stock price and trading volume together.
7. Context
A name is cheap or expensive relative to something.
GR
Ratio Analysis
AAPL GR
Head-to-head against a peer. Graphs the relationship between two securities over time: ratios, spreads or correlations.
HMS
Historical Multiple Security
AAPL HMS
Several names on one chart. Compares multiple securities historically on a single chart: normalize, overlay, or display side-by-side.
G
Chart
AAPL G
The chart itself. Historical and real-time charting: OHLCV candles, volume, drawing tools, and indicators powered by TradingView.
IMAP
Intraday Market Map
IMAP
Where the sector sits today. Intraday movement of a major index — the S&P 500 or the Dow Jones Industrial Average — broken down by sector and colored by performance.
8. Optionality
OMON
Option Chain
QQQ OMON
The chain. The real-time options chain of a security: every strike and expiration with live bid, ask, last, volume, IV and full Greeks.
OVME
Black-Scholes
OVME
Pricing a position. A Black-Scholes options pricing calculator with full Greeks and implied-volatility calculation.
9. Keep what you learned
NOTE
Notes
NOTE
Write it down where the ticker lives. A rich-text notes editor, persisted across sessions and linkable to securities.
AL
Alerts
TSLA AL
Let the terminal watch the level. Creates desktop alerts on any security’s price, volume, or intraday change.
QM
Quote Monitor
QM
Put the name on the list. A customizable live watchlist: any tickers, any columns, real-time streaming, multiple tabs and layouts.
Running it for real
The honest way to evaluate whether this workflow beats your current stack is to run it on a name you already know deeply, during the 14-day trial, and see where the data or the workflow falls short of what you pay for today. The trial guide has a day-by-day version of exactly that test, and the data-coverage page tells you in advance where the delayed-data boundaries are.
Frequently asked questions
Can I run this workflow on the free trial?
Yes — Godel Terminal's pricing page states the 14-day trial opens up most of the product, including real-time Nasdaq quotes, news, SEC filings, financials, charting and the full command set. Running one real research pass is exactly what a trial is for. How the trial works.
Do all of these commands need a ticker in front?
Security-specific screens do — AAPL DES, AAPL FA. Market-wide screens (WEI, IMAP, MOST, TOP) run bare. The command reference shows an example for every one.
Is this the same workflow a Bloomberg user would run?
The shape is similar and many mnemonics will feel familiar, but the products are not equivalents — our comparison covers what does and does not transfer, and the data-coverage page covers where the underlying data is real-time versus delayed.
Where does charting fit?
Anywhere you want it: G opens the documented chart window (indicators powered by TradingView, per Godel Terminal's own docs), and HMS overlays multiple securities for relative work. We put them under "context" below, but chart-first researchers can start there.