The Only Guide You Need — Mastering Futubull

Hello, this is Ryu from ONE X. Today, at the request of my Clubhouse friend Nasdaqko, I'm introducing Futubull — the Chinese stock analysis app. I've been exhausted lately, but I made a promise, so I pushed through and put this together.

Some parts of the explanation may be a bit rough — apologies for that. I won't be covering how to read charts or analytical methods here, so please refer to explanations from respected influencers for those. Please think of this purely as a blog explaining how to use the tool. If that's not what you're looking for, no worries. If you're interested in Nasdaqko, this is a great opportunity to follow them — they share valuable information.

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What Is Futubull?

FUTU (Futu Holdings), sometimes called the Chinese Robinhood, is a Chinese digital brokerage firm and wealth management platform provider. They claim to be transforming the investment experience, offering a securities app with remarkably excellent UI. Listed on NASDAQ on March 8, 2019. The app includes features for stock trading and settlement, asset management, and market data analysis.

"Do I need to open a new brokerage account?"

You may be wondering — but no, you don't need to. The app uses SMS authentication, so you'll need to register your phone number. Please keep that in mind. Also, note that this blog explains how to use Futubull and does not constitute a recommendation of the app itself.

FUTU's two main applications are Futubull and moomoo. I find Futubull easier to use, so I'll focus on Futubull from here.

Downloading Futubull and Initial Setup (corresponds to Slide 1)

FUTU offers apps for both iOS and Android. Search for "FUTU" and download it. You'll need to enter your phone number and input an authentication code — I'll skip the detailed explanation, but work through it.

After downloading, the app will likely be in Chinese. If you can read Chinese, that's fine. Personally, I can only read English, so I switch to English. Unfortunately, there's no Japanese language setting — but even if you can't read English, memorizing the key terms should get you through it. If you really can't remember them, keep DeepL or Google Translate handy.

First, tap the person-shaped icon at the bottom of the app. This takes you to your personal account screen (Image A). Tap the gear icon in the top right to reach the settings screen (Image B). About five items from the bottom, you'll see "通用" — tap that to switch the language from "中文" to "English." Tap it and press the blue button in the top right. Language setup is complete.

Setting Up Easy Bond Yield Monitoring (corresponds to Slide 2)

When investing in stocks, bond yields are something you should always be checking. For details on why, refer to influencers or stock investing books. With one setting change in Futubull, you can easily monitor bond yields. At the top of your app screen you should see tabs like "Watchlists, Markets, ~~."

The default is "Watchlists," so tap "Market." You should see a screen like Image D. Here you can also check indices like DOW, NASDAQ, and S&P 500. In the red circle area of Image D, there's a hamburger icon — tap it. You'll be taken to a screen like Image E. Tap the EDIT button circled in red in Image E and you'll be able to drag and drop items to reorder them.

The "Bond" tab is for bond yields — move "Bond" to the top left. Press DONE. Now Image F's screen should appear as the default. Here you can check not only the 10-year yield but also 30-year, 7-year, 5-year, and others. Tapping each displays a technical chart like Image F', so you can also check bond yield momentum.

Checking the US and Hong Kong Markets (corresponds to Slide 3)

Next, let me explain how to check the US and Hong Kong markets. Like the bond yield, tap "Markets" at the top of the screen (Image G). Tabs for "US, HK~~" will appear — tap each to explore. You can check DOW, NASDAQ, and S&P 500.

Tapping each displays technical charts — definitely check those as well. Scrolling down reveals an "Industry" button. Tapping "Details" brings up a screen like Image H, showing the hottest sectors right now.

Uranium is trending at the moment. Going back and scrolling down also surfaces "Hot Stocks." Tapping that should bring up something like Image I. Check here for the hottest stocks. The Hong Kong equities section works similarly — check it separately.

Creating a Watchlist (corresponds to Slide 4)

After checking bond yields and indices, it's time for stock-by-stock checking. Like other apps, Futubull has a watchlist creation feature. Let's start by setting up your preferred watchlists. With the "Watchlists" tab active, tap the hamburger icon in the red circle area of Image J. This takes you to a screen like Image K. Tap the + button in the lower red circle. You'll reach a screen like Image L where you can create a group with your preferred name. Japanese is also supported.

Once you've created a group, a button labeled "Add Symbol" appears in the lower left like Image L'. Enter the ticker symbol for any stock you want and press "Add." Repeat this to build your preferred watchlist. If you're not happy with the order of watchlist tabs, here's how to change it:

Tap the Edit button (circled in red in Image K) and drag and drop to freely rearrange tab positions. I've moved my holdings list to the top left. My tabs are multiplying out of control — I probably need to do some reorganizing.

Analyzing Stocks — Company Overview and Major Shareholders (corresponds to Slide 5)

After bond yields, indices, and watchlist setup, it's time for actual stock analysis. For US stocks — especially IPO names — you'll often encounter companies you've never heard of. I always check the company overview and major shareholders. Here's how.

Tap on any stock you like. You should see tabs like "Quotes, Comments, News~~." Scroll right to find a "Summary" tab and tap it. You'll reach a screen like Image M.

Tapping "Company Overview" displays the company name, founding year, CEO's name, corporate website URL, and company profile. From here, visit the company's homepage to get a sense of the business. Sketchy stocks sometimes have poorly built websites, so check that too. If you have time, also read the most recent quarterly report. Back in the app, the company profile is in English — but you can long-press to copy it, then paste it into a translation tool. Reading the company profile in Japanese makes it much easier to grasp what the business does and what its strengths are. Looking at "Related ETF" in Image N shows which ETFs include this stock.

Next, return to "Summary" and scroll down. Check "Shareholder Statistics" in Image O. It's divided into "Major, Regional, Type" — look at "Major" to see who the top and major shareholders are. For Tesla, Elon Musk owns 17.22%. I prioritize stocks where the founder or CEO is the top shareholder — both for long-term and swing investing. A founder or CEO who is a major shareholder tends to be more reassuring and more fully committed to the business. Conversely, when an unknown VC or institutional investor is the top shareholder, they may push for decisions that contradict management's intent, and even if the business grows, the CEO won't gain much capital appreciation — which I think affects motivation.

One level below, "Shareholder List" lets you see further details. For IPO stocks, I also check whether well-known VCs like Sequoia or well-known CVCs like Tencent are involved. If a famous VC has invested through to IPO, the odds that this is an impressive company are quite high — I check this carefully.

Analyzing Stocks — Reviewing Financial Results (corresponds to Slide 6)

Once you've looked at the company overview, check the financial results. Tap the "Financial" tab. You'll see a title called "Revenue Composition" — start from there. As shown in Image P, there are two tabs.

The "Business" tab shows what business lines account for what share. For Tesla, automotive is 94% and energy management is 6%. It'll be interesting to watch how much the energy segment grows. "Region" shows revenue by geography. Currently the US is at 48% and China has grown to around 21%. You can adjust the date shown on the right to check historical revenue breakdowns. What the company focused on in the past versus now becomes immediately clear by geography. I find this very useful — I hope you will too.

Scrolling down further brings up Key Indicators (Image R). Since Tesla is a manufacturer, metrics I prioritize include EPS, free cash flow, and ROE. The ROE tab shows dramatic improvement — the Q2 jump is extraordinary. Capital efficiency is rapidly improving, showing the business is becoming increasingly healthy.

Next, check "Financial Estimates" in Image R. Here you can see the analyst consensus estimates versus actual results for EPS, Revenue, and EBIT. These are the first metrics I check after earnings. This eliminates the need to go to sites like Yahoo Finance every time. Companies that consistently "beat" estimates are good companies — it indicates strong communication between management and analysts.

You can also check balance sheets and cash flows as shown in Image S. Depending on the business, these can be critically important, so make use of them. Futubull lets you check a reasonable amount of financial data within the app itself, but for long-term investments, try to read at least the quarterly report, the earnings call, and the S-1 (approximately equivalent to a Japanese prospectus). The S-1 is long and intimidating, but it's full of valuable insights.

Analyzing Stocks — Checking Valuation (corresponds to Slide 7)

After roughly understanding the company overview and financials, you'll want to assess whether the current stock price is justified. Ultimately everyone wants to make money, so this is likely what interests you most. It may be worth saying: if you don't first understand the business model through the company overview and financials, metrics like P/S ratio won't be useful anyway. I recommend analyzing a stock after reading the company information and financials.

In Image T you can check Daily Short Volume. When short interest has recently increased, it typically means the stock is attracting attention and volatility will be higher. Check this alongside other metrics.

Scroll down to find a "buy/sell" meter from Futubull's own algorithm — treat it as a reference. Further down, you'll reach "Morphological Interpretation" (Image U). This shows tendencies based on factors like Bollinger Bands and historical data — whether the stock is entering a bullish or bearish pattern. I use it as a reference.

Next is Image V — P/S, P/E, and P/B ratios (called PS, PE, PB in English-language contexts, which I learned when I started investing in US stocks). You can check the trend of each metric across different time horizons all at once — this might be the screen I look at most.

Scrolling further down shows analyst target prices versus current stock price trends (Image W). I check this alongside P/S, P/E, and P/B when swing trading. After all, finance professionals in this field are setting valuations with their own reasoning, so their perspectives are worth referencing. That said, since these finance professionals are rarely experts in technology or startups, for long-term analysis I think: "this is how the finance guys would see it — but what are they missing?" and set my own target price accordingly. You'll develop your own approach here, so experiment and find what works.

Analyzing Stocks — Reviewing Charts (corresponds to Slides 8 and 9)

The last thing I check is the chart. Futubull lets you do fairly flexible chart analysis including daily and weekly views. Let me introduce a few features. First, on the Quotes tab, near the "Intraday, 5D, 1D, 1W~~" tabs, tap the icon to the right that looks like a hamburger + gear combination.

This brings up a modal (pop-up) like Image X. Tap the "Similar Charts" icon to reach a screen like Image Y, which shows stocks with chart patterns similar to Tesla. I use this to get a quick sense of which stocks are correlated.

Next, your screen in its default state likely has many MA lines. "Too many lines — can't see anything," you're probably thinking. Here's how to remove them. Go back to the modal in Image X and tap "Chart Setting" (circled in red). You'll see "Indicators" — tap that. You'll see "MA Moving Average" — tap it. You can now adjust which indicator lines are displayed.

Personally, I only look at 10MA, 20MA, 50MA, and 200MA, so I've unchecked everything else as shown in Image AB. Display only the moving averages you normally use. Within Indicators, you can also adjust the numbers for MACD and RSI. The default MACD is 12,26,9, but I often use 8,18,6, so I've adjusted it accordingly. Customize to your preferences.

Go back to the "Quotes" screen. You should be able to confirm that the MA and MACD have changed. There will also be times when you don't want certain chart types displayed — tap only what you want to show in the "MA, BOLL, EMA, SAR, PER, MACD" tabs below the chart, and everything else will disappear. Customize it to your liking.

Tap the hamburger + gear icon again. You should see the Image X screen. Press "Position Cost" to get something like Slide 9's Image U. This is genuinely excellent — you can see whether each position is currently at a gain or a loss. I generally believe that stocks with high unrealized losses tend to have heavier upside resistance, so I use this when looking for stocks with lighter potential upside. In the lower right, "Profit Ratio" shows what percentage of holders are in the green. You can also press on the chart screen and slide horizontally to see the time trend of "Position Cost" — another very convenient feature.

Return to the Image X modal and press "Draw." A screen like Image T appears. You can draw trend lines and chart patterns like head-and-shoulders or flags — making it easy to check whether a setup resembles classic technical patterns or not.

Final Thoughts

Explaining an app via blog is genuinely challenging. I hope this helps at least one more person master Futubull and deepen their learning about investing and business. I want to thank Nasdaqko again for the suggestion and for giving me the push to create this post. There were things I couldn't fully convey in a blog post, so I plan to include some Futubull explanations in the US stock live-commentary Clubhouse room I co-host with Capybara — come visit on Clubhouse too. For when the next Clubhouse event is scheduled, follow Capybara and check their posts.

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This blog does not recommend any specific stock.

All stock investment decisions are made at your own risk.

This AI column is produced by the online assistant service "TIMEWELL."

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The Only Guide You Need — Mastering Futubull