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title: "Find your strategies and screeners with search"
description: "Press ⌘K or Ctrl+K to search your own strategies, Live strategies and screeners by name, or to jump to any main page of Fincanva without leaving the keyboard."
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# Find your strategies and screeners with search

Search finds any [strategy](/glossary/strategy), [Live strategy](/glossary/live-strategy) or [screener](/glossary/screener) you own by its name, and opens any main page: press **⌘K** on a Mac or **Ctrl+K** elsewhere and type.

The app's shell: the sidebar on the left and, in the bar along the top of the page, the Search… field with its ⌘K hint.

## Steps

1. **Open search** with **⌘K** (Mac) or **Ctrl+K** (Windows, Linux), or select the **Search…** field in the bar along the top of the page — in a narrow window it shrinks to its magnifier icon. All of them open the same search, on every page of the app once you are signed in; the shortcut alone does nothing while the dialog asking which strategies stay Live is open, because that one must be answered first.
2. **Type part of the name.** The start of any word in it is enough, and capitals do not matter. "Searching…" shows briefly, then your own items appear above the pages.
3. **Read the results**, grouped as **Strategies**, **Live**, **Screeners** and **Pages**. The first three list at most eight matches each; **Pages** lists every page whose name matches.
4. **Select a result**, or move to it with the arrow keys and press **Enter**. Search closes and opens what you picked:

| Group | What it holds | Selecting a result opens |
|---|---|---|
| **Strategies** | your strategies that are not followed live | the strategy's **Settings** |
| **Live** | your strategies that are [marked Live](/glossary/mark-live) | the strategy's **Positions** |
| **Screeners** | your saved screeners | the screener |
| **Pages** | the app's main pages | that page |

**Esc**, or a click outside search, closes it without choosing anything and clears what you typed. Pressing **⌘K** or **Ctrl+K** again also closes it but keeps what you typed, so the next **⌘K** or **Ctrl+K** reopens the same search. When nothing matches, search reads "No results found."

**Done.** The item or page you picked is open.

## How do I find my strategy?

Press **⌘K** or **Ctrl+K** and type the first letters of any word in its name. A strategy you follow live is listed under **Live**, not under **Strategies**, because the two groups never overlap: every strategy you own appears in exactly one of them. Selecting it under **Live** opens its Positions; selecting it under **Strategies** opens its Settings.

If you would rather browse than type, the **Strategies · Single** and **Strategies · Combined** pages list every strategy you own, and the **Folder** filter there narrows the list to the [folders](/glossary/folder) you tick — one or several. Your Live strategies are also listed together on the **Live** page — see [live book](/glossary/live-book).

## Which pages does search list?

With nothing typed, search lists only **Pages** — the fixed destinations of the app, in the order the sidebar shows them: **Home**, **Screeners**, **Live**, **Strategies · Single**, **Strategies · Combined**, then one entry per Settings page (**Settings · Overview**, **Settings · Profile**, **Settings · Access and security**, **Settings · Notifications**, **Settings · Simulation defaults**, **Settings · Plan and usage**, **Settings · Payments and invoices**, **Settings · Privacy and data**). Typing narrows that list to the pages whose name contains what you typed, so typing "settings" leaves every Settings page.

## What does search not cover?

Search reads the **names** of the strategies and screeners **you own**, and nothing else:

- **Public strategies and screeners never appear.** Search only reads your Mine library; see [Mine and Public](/glossary/mine-public). To find a Public item, browse the Public tab of the library.
- **Instruments are not searched here.** Finding a stock, ETP or crypto to hold is done in a strategy's asset selection, which has its own [instrument](/glossary/instrument) search.
- **Settings, filters and results inside an item are not searched** — only the item's name is.
- **There is no list of recent searches and no action shortcuts**: search finds items and pages, and opens them.

## Why is my strategy not in the results?

### My strategy is not in the results

Check three things in order. If the strategy is followed live, look under **Live** rather than **Strategies**. If more than eight of your strategies, Live strategies or screeners match what you typed, only eight are shown in that group — type more of the name. If it is a Public strategy you have not copied, search cannot find it; use **Copy to Mine** first, and the copy becomes yours and searchable.

### Search says "No results found." for a name I know exists

First check the name is yours and not a Public item's, which search never shows. If it is yours, the lookup itself may have failed: search shows the same "No results found." whether nothing matched or the lookup could not complete, so the two cannot be told apart on screen. Close search with **Esc** and search again.

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