Frequently Asked Questions

What is an ASX catalyst calendar?

A calendar of dated, market-relevant events for ASX-listed companies: earnings releases, AGMs, scheme meetings, ex-dividend dates and project milestones. Instead of reading every announcement yourself to find out when something is scheduled, you see the dates laid out and can plan around them.

What does FinScry do?

FinScry reads ASX company announcements each trading day and extracts the future dates inside them into a filterable calendar. Every event keeps a link back to the announcement it came from, along with a confidence score and the source snippet the date was read from, so you can verify anything before acting on it.

Which companies does FinScry cover?

FinScry monitors the full ASX listed-company directory. Not every company has an upcoming dated catalyst at any given moment, and a great many announcements contain no future date at all, so the calendar covers a subset of the market on any given day rather than every listed company.

How do I track upcoming ASX earnings and announcements?

Open the calendar and filter by event type, sector or market capitalisation, or add the companies you care about to a watchlist and let FinScry tell you. The calendar is open without an account, and a free account adds a three-company watchlist with full alerts.

What catalyst categories are tracked?

Seven: Financials, Operations, Commercial, Capital & M&A, Governance, Dividend and Misc. Every event is tagged to one of them so you can filter to what matters to you, and anything the ASX itself flags as price-sensitive carries a badge you can filter on separately. Trading halts are tracked apart from the calendar; see below.

Where does the data come from?

Directly from company announcements filed to the ASX, plus ASX market data for dividend dates. FinScry does not republish third-party research, broker estimates or forecasts. Every catalyst traces back to a specific disclosure, and the calendar shows you which one.

How accurate are the extracted dates?

Every event carries a quality score and the source snippet the date was read from, so you can check it against the original announcement in seconds. Extraction is AI-based and therefore imperfect. The Data Quality page documents how it works, how the score is calculated and where it is known to struggle. You can report an error there.

How often is the data updated?

The extraction run is scheduled each weekday morning, ahead of the 10:00 AEST market open, and processes announcements filed since the previous run. FinScry is a forward-looking calendar rather than a real-time feed: it tells you when events are scheduled, not what prices are doing.

What happens if a company moves a date?

FinScry tracks revisions. When a catalyst's date changes across successive announcements the event is badged "Date changed" in the calendar, and anyone watching that company can be alerted to the move specifically. A results date that slips is often more useful to know about than the original date.

Are trading halts included?

Yes, on a dedicated Trading Halts page rather than in the calendar. A halt is a state a company is currently in, not a scheduled appointment, so it is tracked as a register of open halts with the expected resumption date, and closed automatically once trading resumes.

Are dividend dates included?

Yes: ex-dividend, record and payment dates, with the amount and franking. These come from ASX market data rather than AI extraction, so they are deterministic. They sit in the calendar under the Dividend category and work with the same filters, watchlists and alerts as everything else.

Can FinScry alert me before a price-sensitive announcement?

It alerts you to scheduled events ahead of time. No service can tell you about news a company has not yet filed. Add companies to your watchlist and FinScry emails you, or posts to a webhook, when a new catalyst is extracted for them and again if an existing date moves.

Do free accounts get alerts?

Yes, and they are the real thing rather than a sample. A free account includes a three-company watchlist with full email and webhook alerts, date-change alerts included. Paid plans raise how many companies you can track; they do not unlock alerting itself.

Which webhook services are supported?

Slack, Discord, Google Chat and Microsoft Teams have named options, and a generic JSON POST option works with anything else that accepts one. You can set a single default destination covering every company on your watchlist, or point individual companies at different webhooks.

Is there a free plan?

Yes. The calendar is open without an account, and a free account adds a three-company watchlist with real alerts. Paid plans increase how many companies you can cover and add the custom date-range view, exports, a personal calendar feed and API access. See pricing for the current plans.

Is there a free trial?

Paid plans include a 30-day free trial, one per account, on monthly billing. A card is required to start it and you can cancel at any point before it ends. Annual billing is offered at a discount but does not include a trial.

Can I export the data, or use an API?

Pro includes CSV and Excel export, a personal calendar feed you can subscribe to in Google, Outlook or Apple Calendar, and REST API access with your own keys. Enterprise adds unlimited API access with an SLA. API documentation lives on the Developer page once your plan includes access.

How do I cancel?

From your account page, which opens the billing portal. Cancelling stops future billing and keeps your access until the end of the period you have already paid for. Your watchlist and alert settings are kept, so resuming later restores your configuration rather than starting over.

Is FinScry financial advice?

No. FinScry reports dates that companies have themselves disclosed. It does not recommend trades, rank opportunities or predict price movements, and you should verify any date against the source announcement before acting on it. See the Financial Disclaimer for the full position.

Still stuck?

If your question is not here, or a catalyst looks wrong, the contact page has the right address for each kind of request. Data issues are best reported from the Data Quality page, which attaches the event you are looking at.