Opentable Traffic Consumer Discretionary
In plain terms
When OpenTable seated-diner traffic spikes vs the 2019 baseline, restaurant and travel stocks tend to follow over 5-20 days.
How it works
OpenTable State-of-Industry US seated-diner YoY% spikes 1sigma above 252d mean predict 5-20d outperformance in restaurants, hotels, airlines, ride-share, leisure REITs. Free data since March 2020 (~6yr backfill).
Data dependencies
- Daily prices
Adjusted-close OHLCV for every US-listed ticker; primary price feed.
- Opentable panel
A data feed this strategy reads, refreshed on its normal schedule.
Expected edge
- Reported return
- 0.5-2%/yr
- Tested over
- 2020-03 onward
0.5-2%/yr concentrated in consumer-discretionary cross-section.
Example tickers where this is likely to fire
Illustrative only, the signal fires based on the live data, not a fixed list.
Related families
SafeGraph foot-traffic accelerates → retailer's next earnings beats.
The cited research finds the opposite of a momentum story: when consumer sentiment is unusually high (after stripping out the economy's fundamentals), small-cap stocks tend to do WORSE afterward. Our earlier version traded raw sentiment in the same direction as the trend, which does not match the research, so it was retired in June 2026.
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