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Ask Alice Atlas

Monday, November 2, 2026

Prices, history, and the news of any day. Not a forecast.

About

The paper

About

Ask Alice Atlas is made by Real Mighty Joe Productions, a one-man studio building free apps with AI for the benefit of humanity. It's free forever, supported only by optional donations to the creator. No board, no ads, no paid tiers.

The Atlas shows public prices, simple math on those prices, and pointers to news and filings. It does not take orders, hold money, or sell advice. Donating is optional. Nothing on the site is locked behind it.

What the front page is showing

  • New York is the Dow, the S&P 500, the Nasdaq Composite, and the Russell 2000.
  • Around the clock is Bitcoin and Ethereum, which keep trading when the stock exchange is shut.
  • Metal and crude are gold, silver, and WTI oil futures.
  • Rates, fear, and abroad are the 10-year Treasury yield, the VIX, the FTSE 100, and the Nikkei 225.

Search any other stock, ETF, commodity, or coin. Its page adds a chart, the high and low closes in view, moving averages, a plain-language range, and news from the date you pick. Company shares also list recent SEC filings. The range is a model of past swings, not a promise of where the price goes.

What a figure is

Green is up and crimson is down. Unless the card says 24h, that move is against the prior close. Live is a crypto print. Delayed about 15 minutes is a stock, an index, or a futures quote. End of day is an official close. If you pick a Saturday or a holiday, the price is the last session before that date, and it is labeled as such.

The Dow, the S&P 500, and the Nasdaq can tell different stories on the same afternoon because they count companies differently. The 10-year figure is a yield, an interest rate, not the dollar price of a bond. The VIX is a reading of expected stock swings, not a share. Gold, silver, and oil are futures, a contract for later delivery.

News and filings

Headlines are one sentence in our words, with the outlet, the date, and a link to the original or an archived copy. Older dates lean on Chronicling America and the Internet Archive. Recent dates lean on GDELT. We never paste the full article. Company filings are named and linked to SEC EDGAR the same way.