How Farlens works
From a world event to a portfolio-relevant read in three stages — with the reasoning visible at every step, and both sides of the argument always present.
1. Event detection
Farlens continuously monitors the parts of the world that move markets and rarely appear on a stock screener: the thirteen maritime chokepoints that carry most of global seaborne trade, active conflicts, sanctions programmes as they expand or ease, and shifts in credit conditions. Each event is scored for severity and tracked as it develops, so a read reflects today's state of the world, not last quarter's.
2. Exposure mapping
An event only matters to you if it touches something you hold or follow. Farlens maps each event to the sectors and tickers it plausibly affects — an energy producer's sensitivity to a Gulf shipping disruption, a shipper's exposure to a canal closure, an importer's dependence on a sanctioned supply chain — and explains why the mapping exists, not just that it does.
3. Both sides, in plain language
Every read arrives as an argument, not an answer: the bull case and the bear case, side by side. Most world events help one part of a portfolio while hurting another; a tool that only tells you one side is doing your thinking for you. Farlens deliberately doesn't.
What's open and what requires an account
Explanation, methodology, and history are public — including the event guides and the full description of how the composite score is built. Live readings — today's scores, today's chokepoint status, your watchlist's current exposure — are for account holders. That boundary is deliberate and permanent.
Frequently asked
Does Farlens tell me what to buy or sell?
No. Never. Every read presents both sides, and every decision remains yours.
Where does the event data come from?
Licensed geopolitical event data and public market data, combined with Farlens's own scoring, exposure mapping, and historical analysis.
Is the methodology public?
Yes — see the methodology page, including the out-of-sample validation numbers that aren't flattering.
Do I need to connect a brokerage account?
No. Farlens never takes brokerage access and never executes trades — a permanent design position, not a missing feature.