// monsa vs finviz
Finviz and Monsa answer different questions.
Finviz finds candidates. Monsa watches the ones you actually bought.
What Finviz is for
A fast, free screener over the whole market, plus maps, news and charts. It is where a lot of ideas start.
Monsa holds the rules you wrote down and checks your holdings against them every night.
A screener runs when you run it, over everything, to produce a shortlist. Monsa runs by itself, over your book, to produce a verdict. Finviz is the front of the funnel and Monsa is the back of it, which is why owning both is normal rather than redundant.
Side by side
| What you want to do | Finviz | Monsa |
|---|---|---|
| Search the whole market for candidates | The core feature, and free. | Not offered. |
| Save a screen and re-run it | Yes. | Rules are saved against a portfolio and run without you. |
| Tell you a holding no longer passes | Only if you remember to check it against the screen. | Every night, per portfolio. |
When you do not need Monsa
If you are looking for what to buy rather than checking what you own, that is Finviz and it is free.
Monsa is also not a broker, does not place trades, and never says what to buy or sell. The other comparisons say the same thing about different tools, and a spreadsheet gets further than most people expect.
Rules written down while you still remember why you bought something survive the moment the price argues with you.