Support

Stuck, curious, or found a bug? Write to sebastiankendra@live.com and you will hear back within a couple of days.

Is Coattails investment advice?

No. Coattails reports what public filings say, for entertainment. It never tells you what to do with your money, and nothing in the app is a recommendation to buy or sell anything.

Does Coattails connect to my brokerage?

Never. There is nothing to link and no way to link it. The "Your ride" screen is a scoreboard of what copying your picks would have earned; no real money is involved.

Where does the data come from?

Public, legally required disclosures: congressional trade filings, corporate insider filings, and quarterly fund reports. Disclosures arrive with a delay set by law, so a trade you see today may have happened days or weeks ago; the app always shows the dates.

Why does a trader's return look different from the news?

Returns model a $1-per-trade copy of every disclosed trade, priced from the trade date. That is a fair way to compare people, but it is not the same as their real portfolio, which nobody outside their broker can see.

My watchlist or follows disappeared

Both live only on your device. Deleting and reinstalling the app clears them; there is no account to restore them from yet.