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16 posts tagged sentiment.
16 posts
Congressional Trades on a Single Stock: Reading the Per-Ticker Congress Card
The 'Congress outperforms the market' story hides where the actual signal is. It's not aggregate Congressional portfolios — it's a single committee chair's specific trade on a name under their jurisdiction.
Corporate Lobbying Disclosures: The Quietly Reliable Policy Signal Hiding in Plain Sight
Lobbying spend publicly discloses which regulatory fights a company is fighting. A quarter-over-quarter jump in contacts to a new agency often precedes the rulemaking or enforcement action that ends up moving the stock — and almost no one reads these filings.
Dark Pool Prints: What Off-Exchange Volume Reveals About Institutional Positioning
Dark pool prints represent block-size institutional trades filled away from public order books. Here's how to read the Dark Pool card on alphactor.ai and what the prints actually tell you.
Dashboard News: A Filtered Stream Across Your Holdings
Generic news feeds drown you in noise. The Dashboard News card filters by your holdings and ranks by sentiment impact — what's new, what matters, why.
ETF Holdings: How Passive Flows Shape a Stock's Path
Which ETFs hold this stock, at what weight, and how exposed is the name to passive flows? The ETF Holdings card on alphactor.ai answers the passive-exposure question that drives half of intraday volume.
Google Trends Interest Over Time: Consumer Demand as a Leading Indicator
Search interest in a brand, product, or ticker often precedes revenue by weeks. Used correctly — same-week year-over-year comparisons, not absolute levels — the Interest-Over-Time card surfaces demand shifts before the 10-Q reports them.
Rising Queries: The Narrative Shift Detector
Top queries tell you what people are searching; rising queries tell you what they just started searching. For a public company, a breakout in rising queries almost never means nothing — something specific happened.
Top Related Queries: What People Are Actually Searching About This Stock
The total volume view tells you how much people are searching. The top queries view tells you what. A spike paired with 'lawsuit' queries is a different story than the same spike with 'earnings beat' — and the what is where narrative lives.
Government Contracts: Tracking Federal Revenue Concentration in Real Time
Federal obligations are public within days via USAspending and typically flow to the issuer 2–4 quarters before appearing in a 10-Q. For defense, aerospace, IT services, and health names, the feed is a high-signal leading indicator of revenue.
Insider MSPR: What Net Insider Buying Actually Tells You
MSPR (Monthly Stock Purchase Ratio) distills dozens of Form 4 filings into a single score. Here's how to read the Insider MSPR chart on alphactor.ai and when the signal has historically worked.
Reading Form 4: Insider Transaction Codes Decoded
Not all insider sells are bearish and not all buys are bullish. A practical guide to the Insider Transactions table on alphactor.ai — transaction codes, 10b5-1 plans, and the buys that actually matter.
13F Holders: Who Owns This Stock, and Who Just Bought In
The Institutional Holders table on alphactor.ai surfaces the latest 13F snapshot — top owners, position sizes, and quarter-over-quarter changes that reveal which funds are accumulating.