MarketCrash vs Finviz: A Stock Screener That Also Tells You When the Whole Market Looks Risky

You found a great stock. Did you check the market it trades in?

You know how it goes. You open a screener and filter for a low P/E, a high dividend and a price near the yearly low. Out comes a neat list of bargains. Then a question starts to nag at you: is this stock cheap, or is the whole market about to get cheaper?

A stock screener can't answer that. So most people end up with a pile of tabs: one for the screener, one for the yield curve, one for the Buffett Indicator, one for oil news. By the time you've put it all together, the moment has passed.

Finviz is one of the best-known stock screeners, and it does that job well. But it was built to find stocks, not to warn you that the market is about to break. Its alerts also cost money: the Finviz Elite page lists stock, price and screener alerts under Elite and says free users don't get them.

The after-state: one site, two questions answered

MarketCrash puts your stock list and the market picture on the same site.

The home page opens on one plain verdict, with a Crash Risk score next to a Growth score. Below that are the biggest moves, like a shift in the Buffett Indicator, and three cards that take you into the site. By the time you open the screener, you already know what kind of market you're buying into.

The screener: every S&P 500 stock, with the market in view

The MarketCrash stock screener covers every stock in the S&P 500, and it's refreshed every trading day. Here's what you can do with it:

• Filter and sort by sector, market cap, P/E, dividend and weekly move, and sort by any column.
• Start from a ready-made screen: stocks near their yearly low or high, oversold RSI, low P/E, below their long-term moving average, below book value, or a high dividend yield.
• See more in every table: a 1-year sparkline, a "new today" marker and the 1W move.
• Share your exact screen: your filters and sort are saved in the link, so "Copy link" brings back the same view.
• Get alerts without a paid plan: "Alert me on this screen" saves your filters to your email address. After each daily run, you get an email when a stock joins or leaves your screen. The screener page puts it plainly: "No account, one click to unsubscribe from everything."

The alerts are for people who don't want to sit there refreshing a page all day.

What a stock screener doesn't show you

The real gap isn't in the stock list. It's everything outside it. MarketCrash tracks the signals that have tended to come before big drawdowns and recessions, using Federal Reserve (FRED) and market data:

• Valuation: the Buffett Indicator (market cap to GDP) and the Shiller PE (CAPE).
• Rates and money: the 10Y-2Y Treasury yield spread, real interest rates and M2 money supply.
• The economy: unemployment and inflation (CPI).
• Shocks from outside: event monitors for Oil Shock, AI Debt, Private Credit, Treasury Dump and Debt Spiral.

The charts page sorts all 28 charts by what they measure: Valuation & Sentiment, Rates & Money, Economy & Debt, and Energy & Metals. Each chart shows its full history, its source and how often it updates.

Take the chart above: it tracks oil tankers moving through the world's key straits, using satellite data. A cheap energy stock looks very different once you can see the shipping lanes behind it.

MarketCrash vs Finviz at a glance

• Main job: Finviz is a broad stock screener and charting tool. MarketCrash is a crash-risk dashboard with an S&P 500 screener built in.
• Market-wide crash signals: MarketCrash has a crash-risk score, a growth score and event monitors for shocks. Finviz focuses on single stocks.
• Screener alerts: Finviz lists them as an Elite feature on its Elite page. The MarketCrash screener emails you when your screen changes, no account needed.
• Price: The FAQ on the Finviz Elite page lists "$39.50 USD / month", and its trial "automatically renews as a paid subscription." MarketCrash alerts only need your email address.
• Email volume: The MarketCrash weekly market email promises "At most one email a week."
• Real-time trading data: Its Elite page says Finviz Elite offers real-time quotes, including premarket and after-hours. MarketCrash updates once each trading day and isn't built for intraday trading.

Who should pick which

If you trade during the day and need real-time quotes and advanced charts, Finviz Elite is made for you. If you invest for the long term and your real fear is buying a "bargain" right before the whole market falls, MarketCrash is the better fit. You get the stock list, the market's warning lights and a quiet email when something changes, all in one place.

And we keep shipping: the new all-stocks screener, filters saved in the link and screen alerts all went live in the past week.

Check the market before you buy your next stock

The next drawdown won't wait for you to check five tabs. See today's crash-risk verdict, build your S&P 500 screen and let the alerts come to you.

👉 Open MarketCrash now: no account needed.

MarketCrash is for education and information only. It is not investment advice.