---
title: "Find your strategies and screeners with search"
description: "Press ⌘K or Ctrl+K to search your own strategies, live portfolios and screeners by name, or to jump to any main page of Fincanva without leaving the keyboard."
canonical_url: "https://fincanva.com/docs/getting-started/find-your-strategies-and-screeners-with-search"
last_updated: "2026-09-24"
md_url: "https://fincanva.com/docs/getting-started/find-your-strategies-and-screeners-with-search.md"
---

# Find your strategies and screeners with search

Search finds any strategy, live portfolio or screener you own by its name, and jumps to any main page of Fincanva. Open it with **⌘K** on a Mac or **Ctrl+K** elsewhere, type part of a name, and pick the result.

## Before you start

No prerequisites. Search is available on every page of the app once you are signed in, and it only ever looks at items you own.

## Steps

1. Press **⌘K** (Mac) or **Ctrl+K** (Windows, Linux). You can also select the **Search** field at the top of the sidebar, or its magnifier icon when the sidebar is collapsed — all three open the same search.
2. Type part of the name. The start of any word in it is enough, and capitals do not matter.
3. Read the results, grouped as **Strategies**, **Portfolios**, **Screeners** and **Pages**.
4. Select a result, or move to it with the arrow keys and press **Enter**. Search closes and opens what you picked.

Press **Esc**, or click outside search, to close it without choosing anything; that also clears what you typed, so the next search starts from an empty field. Pressing **⌘K** or **Ctrl+K** again closes it too, but keeps what you typed, and the next **⌘K** or **Ctrl+K** reopens it on the same search.

## What you should see

With nothing typed, search lists only **Pages** — the fixed destinations of the app, in the order the sidebar shows them: **Home**, **Screeners**, **Portfolios**, **Strategies · Single**, **Strategies · Combined**, and one entry per Settings page (**Settings · Profile**, **Settings · Simulation**, **Settings · Security**, **Settings · Billing**, **Settings · Usage**). Typing narrows that list to the pages whose name contains what you typed, so typing "settings" leaves every Settings page.

Once you type, "Searching…" is shown briefly, then your own items appear above the pages. The **Strategies**, **Portfolios** and **Screeners** groups list at most eight matches each; **Pages** lists every page whose name matches. Where a result takes you depends on its group:

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

When nothing matches, search reads "No results found."

## 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 **Portfolios**, not under **Strategies**, because the two groups never overlap: every strategy you own appears in exactly one of them. Selecting it under **Portfolios** opens its Holdings; 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](/docs/getting-started/folder) you tick — one or several. Your live strategies are also listed together on the **Portfolios** page — see [live book](/docs/getting-started/live-book).

## What does search not cover?

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

- **Public strategies and screeners never appear.** Search only reads your Mine library; see [Mine and Public](/docs/getting-started/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 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.

## Common problems

### My strategy is not in the results

Check three things in order. If the strategy is followed live, look under **Portfolios** rather than **Strategies**. If more than eight of your strategies, portfolios or screeners match what you typed, only eight are shown in that group — type more of the name to narrow it. 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.

Fincanva is for education and illustration only. It is not personalised financial advice, and past or simulated results do not predict future ones. [Read the Terms Addendum](https://fincanva.com/terms/addendum#section-3)