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November 6, 2026 · 9 min read

Stock market crash or correction? Why the Nasdaq fell 5.5% on November 5

The Nasdaq fell 5.52% and the S&P 500 4.36% on November 5, 2026, their worst day since April 2025. Why stocks fell, how it compares to past crashes, and what to watch next.

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November 6, 2026

Stock market crash or correction? Why the Nasdaq fell 5.5% on November 5

The Nasdaq fell 5.52% and the S&P 500 4.36% on November 5, 2026, their worst day since April 2025. Why stocks fell, how it compares to past crashes, and what to watch next.

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November 3, 2026

IREN stock: AI cloud revenue nearly tripled, after a 17% drop on report day

IREN reported $228M revenue on November 5, with AI cloud up 182% to $200M, and pushed its $4B ARR target to January. The stock closed down 17% at $18.03 before the release, then rose after hours. What the crowd called, and what's next.

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November 2, 2026

Nvidia stock forecast: the graded accounts stayed 4-to-1 bullish through a 14% slide

Nvidia closed at $204.64 on October 30, 14.5% under its October 6 high. The accounts we track with a graded record stayed bullish 113 to 27 through the slide. The analyst price target, the bull and bear cases they give, and what to watch at the November 17 earnings.

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October 30, 2026

POET stock: the graded accounts we track were bullish under $8.30, months before it doubled

POET Technologies (NASDAQ: POET) closed at $5.66 on October 29. From January to mid-April the graded accounts we track were bullish on it 45 to 0, at $8.30 or less, before a 108% week and a $20.57 peak. Price, news and what to watch into November 16.

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October 30, 2026

FDVV vs SCHD: SCHD pays 2.96% from 100 steady payers, FDVV pays 2.72% with 31% in tech

FDVV vs SCHD: Fidelity's High Dividend ETF against Schwab's U.S. Dividend Equity ETF. Expense ratio, dividend yield, FDVV dividend history, stock price, top holdings, sectors and 1, 3 and 5-year returns side by side, how each index picks its stocks, and what the accounts we track say about the holdings.

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October 29, 2026

NVDL rose 668% in three years to Nvidia's 432%, while TSLL ended flat as Tesla nearly doubled

TSLL, NVDL, CONL and MSTU stock prices, fees and one-year returns against Tesla, Nvidia, Coinbase and Strategy. What daily reset means, volatility decay with a worked example, why MSTU reverse split twice, TMF and SQQQ, and what the crowd says about the stocks.

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October 29, 2026

FZROX, FSKAX and FXAIX all returned 13.3% to 13.7% last year, and none costs more than $1.50 on $10,000

FZROX vs FSKAX vs FXAIX: Fidelity's zero-fee total market fund, its 0.015% twin and its S&P 500 fund. Fees, NAVs, dividends and returns side by side, why FZROX can't leave Fidelity, and what the accounts we track say about the top holdings.

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October 28, 2026

YieldMax ETFs paid out 25% to 60% a year, and six of the seven lost 24% to 77% of their share price

MSTY, TSLY, CONY, NVDY, PLTY, AMDY, YMAX and ULTY dividend history, distribution rates and stock prices. Why their prices fall, total return against each stock, QYLD and the weekly XDTE and QDTE for comparison, and what the crowd says about Tesla, Nvidia and AMD.

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October 28, 2026

Cerebras stock trades as CBRS, and the crowd was bearish at its $311 top

Cerebras is public: it listed on the Nasdaq as CBRS on May 14, 2026, at $185 a share. Why the stock now trades near $119, what Cerebras earns, how to buy it, and how the AI chip crowd reads it.

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October 27, 2026

FXAIX, VOO, VTSAX and VTI all returned about 14% last year, and the fee gap is $2.50 on $10,000

FXAIX and VOO track the S&P 500, VTSAX and VTI the whole US market. Expense ratios, dividends, minimums and returns side by side, mutual fund vs ETF, and what the accounts we track say about their top holdings.

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October 26, 2026

Waymo stock: you buy it as Alphabet (GOOGL), where Waymo is valued at $126 billion

Waymo stock trades as Alphabet, ticker GOOGL or GOOG on the Nasdaq. Waymo itself is private and Alphabet is its majority owner. Its $126 billion valuation, its weight inside Alphabet, the share price and how to buy.

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October 26, 2026

JEPI vs JEPQ vs QQQI vs SPYI: they paid out 8% to 14% last year, and AMD shows the upside they give away

JEPI, JEPQ, QQQI, SPYI, GPIQ and GPIX are covered-call ETFs that pay every month. Each fund's dividend yield, dividend history, ex-dividend dates and fees, SEC yield vs distribution rate, returns against SPY and QQQ, and the AMD run the graded accounts we track called before it happened.

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October 26, 2026

Anthropic (ANT) files for its IPO with revenue up 14 times to $16.3 billion in six months

ANT IPO price and date: Anthropic, the company behind Claude, filed its S-1 on October 26, 2026, with the price range blank. The per-share figures that do exist, when ANT could trade, the revenue and losses, and who controls the company.

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October 24, 2026

QQQM is QQQ for a lower fee, and Micron is the holding the crowd talks about most

QQQM is Invesco's Nasdaq-100 ETF: the same index as QQQ at a 0.15% expense ratio against 0.18%. The QQQM stock price, QQQ vs QQQM, top holdings, VOO vs QQQ, TQQQ's daily reset, and which holdings the accounts we track talk about.

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October 22, 2026

xAI stock: you buy it as SpaceX (SPCX), and AI is now half the company

xAI has no stock of its own. SpaceX bought it in an all-stock deal on February 2, 2026, so the only way to own xAI, Grok and X is SpaceX, ticker SPCX on the Nasdaq. What happened, what xAI is worth inside SpaceX, and how to buy.

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October 22, 2026

Starlink stock: you buy it as SpaceX (SPCX), 13.6 million subscribers included

There is no separate Starlink stock. Starlink is part of SpaceX, which trades on the Nasdaq as SPCX, and no spin-off has been announced. Starlink's Q3 numbers, how to buy it, and why the price has moved.

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October 22, 2026

SpaceX ETF: the 2x long and short funds, what daily reset does, and the 1x options

There is no plain 1x SpaceX ETF. Nasdaq-100 funds like QQQ hold about 2.7% in SPCX, and the single-stock SpaceX ETFs are 2x long or 2x short with a daily reset. The funds, their fees, how daily reset works, and the ERShares XOVR story.

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October 21, 2026

Is the AI bubble bursting? Bubble talk stayed near 1% through the November 5 selloff

Is the AI bubble bursting? The Nasdaq fell 5.52% on November 5, 2026, into a correction, not a burst. Bubble talk stayed near 1% of AI stock mentions, and graded accounts cooled first.

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October 19, 2026

SpaceX IPO: the date, the $135 price, how SPCX has traded, and how to buy it

SpaceX went public on the Nasdaq on June 12, 2026, at $135 a share as SPCX. The last insider lockup ends December 8. How SPCX has traded since, the full lockup schedule, how to buy it, and what the accounts we track said.

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October 9, 2026

Quantral now reads finance shows on YouTube, and grades every speaker

Quantral now reads a handpicked set of finance shows on YouTube. Hosts and guests each get their own track record, and their calls count toward the score on the stocks they talk about.

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October 5, 2026

Credo stock: the graded bulls held through a 34% drop, and the price came back

Credo fell 34% in the first two weeks of September, around its earnings. The graded accounts we track stayed 29 to 2 bullish through the drop, and the stock closed October 2 at $218.64, up 46% from the low and back above its pre-earnings price. The receipts, dated.

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October 1, 2026

Stock market sentiment: November 2026

Stock market sentiment November 2026: the accounts we track went into the midterms at 67% bullish in October, their lowest month of 2026, down from 75% in September.

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September 30, 2026

Quantral now reads Korean broker research on Telegram, in English

South Korean brokerages post their research notes to Telegram, in Korean. Quantral now shows each note on a KOSPI or KOSDAQ company in English, with the rating and target price change in one line.

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September 30, 2026

Korean insider buying is now in Quantral, in English

Quantral now shows when executives and major shareholders of KOSPI and KOSDAQ companies buy their own stock, in English, next to US insider buys. Two years of history: 4,224 buys at 1,046 Korean companies, including SK Hynix's chairman putting ₩4.9 billion into the July low.

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September 29, 2026

Quantral now reads Naver: three times the Korean stock coverage, in English

Quantral now reads Korean investing blogs on Naver, next to finance X, Reddit and Substack. Naver tripled the Korean companies with a live conversation in the app, from 161 to 508, and every post shows up in English.

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September 28, 2026

Quantral Strategies: four model portfolios, rebuilt every Monday

Strategies is a new tab in Quantral: four 10-stock model portfolios built from insider buys, Congress trades and the voices we track on X and Substack, rebuilt every Monday and measured against the S&P 500.

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September 24, 2026

CEO buying stock: insider buys are now in Quantral

See when a CEO is buying stock in their own company. Quantral now shows open-market insider buys: who bought, their role and how much, next to Congress trades and the crowd.

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September 23, 2026

Nancy Pelosi stock tracker: her portfolio, her latest trades, and how they did

No new Pelosi stock trade as of Nov 6, 2026. Last stock filing (Aug 21) added Bloom Energy and Intel. Pelosi investment tracker: every trade since 2025.

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September 21, 2026

Congress stock trades are now graded voices in Quantral

Congress trading in Quantral: every House and Senate member who files a STOCK Act disclosure gets a graded track record. Each buy and sale is graded on what the stock did next.

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September 15, 2026

Who was bullish on Meta before Muse

On August 24 we printed Meta at a score of 76 while the crowd was half bearish and the stock had fallen 6.8% that week. Two weeks before the Muse launch, the graded accounts we track were 15 to 4 bullish on Meta at $544 to $611. It closed at $665.60 on September 14, up 21% from that read. The receipts, dated.

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September 10, 2026

Ask Claude what the crowd is saying: Quantral's MCP server is live

Quantral's MCP server is live: connect Claude or ChatGPT and ask what investors are saying about a stock, with scores and monthly recaps in the chat.

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September 9, 2026

Samsung, SK Hynix and 2,600 more: Korean stocks come to Quantral

Korea is Quantral's first market outside the US. More than 2,600 KOSPI and KOSDAQ companies are in the app with the same 0 to 100 score, alerts, recaps and MCP access as US names. SK Hynix opened its first week in our top ten. More markets follow in the coming weeks.

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September 4, 2026

The memory split, three weeks later: four scores and the tape since

On August 12 we published four scores on the big US memory names: Micron 86, SanDisk 83, Western Digital 37, Seagate 35. Three weeks later the two high scores are up double digits and the two low scores went nowhere. The follow-up, number by number.

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August 27, 2026

Nvidia cleared the bar. Grading the room that called it.

Yesterday we published the room's read on Nvidia hours before the print: crowd 3-to-1 bullish, the tracked accounts at 6-to-1. Nvidia beat on everything and guided nearly $4 billion above consensus. The grade, the caveat from May, and the one chart that shows who showed up after the fact.

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August 13, 2026

NBIS stock: Nebius fell 48% this summer, and the graded accounts never turned bearish

NBIS stock closed at $171.99 on October 29, and the next Nebius earnings date is November 12. The price, the 52-week range, the summer slide the graded accounts we track never turned bearish on, and what they say now.

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August 12, 2026

Memory stocks in 2026: MU, SNDK, SK hynix, WDC and STX by crowd sentiment

Five US memory stocks fell 12% to 25% in a month. The accounts we track still call all five higher, more than two to one, and Western Digital has flipped.

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August 6, 2026

COHR stock: Coherent beat its guidance, then fell 13% the next day

Coherent posted $2.37B revenue and $2.09 EPS on November 4, above its guidance. COHR rose 5% after hours, then closed down 13% at $169.76 on November 5. Bull and bear cases, what's next.

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Stock signal autopsies

One Quantral stock signal replayed in time. You see what the score said before the move and what the price did after.

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July 28, 2026

Signal autopsy: MaxLinear beat, raised, and fell 29% in two days. The trusted room has not blinked.

MaxLinear delivered the quarter its bulls wanted, revenue up 55% with a raised guide, and the stock still fell 29% in two sessions. Before the print, every account talking about it in our set was a trusted one. After it, the room stayed seven-to-one bullish while the tape went the other way. That is the widest gap between a credible crowd and a price on our board right now, and this is how it gets graded.

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July 14, 2026

Signal autopsy: everyone loves SpaceX, except the accounts worth listening to

SpaceX priced the biggest IPO in history, ran 57% in four sessions, and has been sliding ever since. Quantral's score has read it cold the whole way, because the accounts with real track records were the ones saying no. This is what a credibility-weighted signal looks like when fame and conviction point in opposite directions.

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July 8, 2026

Signal autopsy: the crowd was split on Reddit, and credibility broke the tie

Reddit drew one of the loudest, most divided conversations on Quantral last week, yet it held the single highest score on the board. Here is why: the bulls and bears were both credible, the doubt was concentrated in the least credible voices, and the stock ran about 27% off its low.

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July 6, 2026

Signal autopsy: the crowd bought the wrong rocket

When SpaceX priced the biggest IPO in history, WSB bet that shut-out retail would pile into the lookalike ticker: Virgin Galactic. For 48 hours SPCE was one of the loudest names we track, and essentially none of it was about Virgin Galactic. The score held at 39. Two weeks later the stock was at half the pop.

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July 3, 2026

Signal autopsy: FuelCell's crowd was 94% credible, and they bought the crash

When FuelCell sold off hard in June, the crowd talking about it was not a meme mob. Almost every voice was a trusted one, and they called the bottom. The score read it, the stock ran 92% off the low, and this is why who is talking beats how many.

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June 25, 2026

Signal autopsy: Micron lit up on May 26, then ran 61%

A look back at one real Quantral signal. Micron went loud on May 26, before a 61% run and a sharp pullback. Here is what the signal showed, in time, and what it did not.

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The week in stock signals

The Friday scorecard: the calls where Quantral's score and the accounts we track disagreed, and how each one resolved.

September 22, 2026

A month after the Nvidia print, the scorecard

Before Nvidia's August 26 earnings, the accounts with the best track records on Quantral were 6-to-1 bullish, and the page said so with names attached. A month later the stock is up 8.5%, where the same setup in May lost 4.8%. Four calls printed before the tape moved, four resolved: Nvidia, Marvell, the memory stocks, and Nebius.

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September 14, 2026

The most mentioned stocks last week, scored: Sep 7–11

Meta, Apple, Nvidia and Nebius drew the most talk across the accounts Quantral tracks in the holiday-shortened week of Sep 7 to 11. Two rooms formed on the Monday holiday before their stocks moved, two crowds arrived with the move, the most credible room on the board bought a pop that faded, and the best-timed call of the week was a bearish one.

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August 24, 2026

The loudest stocks this week, scored: Aug 17–21

Moderna, Nebius, and Micron drew the most talk across the accounts Quantral tracks over the week of Aug 17 to 21. The loudest name on the board carries the lowest score on it, the most credible room had its worst week since July, and the best call of the week came from a room too small to make the table.

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August 5, 2026

Early August's three loudest stocks scored 87, 80, and 41

Early August's conversation looked like a rotation into software and chips. It was an earnings week in disguise: Palantir, AMD, and Applied Optoelectronics pulled the crowd in on August 4. The score rated them 80, 41, and 87, and the spread is the whole point.

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July 31, 2026

The week in signals: Jul 27–31

The standing Friday scorecard, in the loudest earnings week of the season. The AI-infrastructure names the credible rooms have been long all month fell as much as 21% by Wednesday, then Microsoft's blowout print snapped the whole trade back on Thursday. The honest part: one earnings report whipsawed the entire tape, and the biggest mover of the week, Microsoft itself, walked in with a quiet, undecided room the score never called.

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July 17, 2026

The week in signals: Jul 13–17

The standing Friday scorecard. The quietest one-sided room on the board (Aehr Test Systems) got paid 24% in an earnings week, the cold reads on SpaceX and Oracle kept paying, and the honest part: the loudest bullish rooms of the week, Nebius and SanDisk, got hit the hardest.

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July 13, 2026

The week in signals: Jul 6 to 10

Penguin Solutions' beat-and-raise week, Meta's double-digit run, and a SpaceX slide the score never bought. Where Quantral's score and the crowd parted ways over Jul 6 to 10, and how those calls resolved.

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July 7, 2026

The loudest stocks last week (and what the score actually said)

Wendy's, Micron, and Nebius drew the most talk across the accounts Quantral tracks over the week of Jun 29 to Jul 3. But loudest is not the same as strongest. Here is where the volume and the credible read agreed, and where they split.

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June 30, 2026

June scorecard: what the signal caught, and what it stayed cold on

Instead of one autopsy, a month-end look at where Quantral's score and the crowd parted ways in June, and how those calls resolved. In a down month for tech, the cleanest cases on both sides went the score's way.

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June 29, 2026

The loudest stocks this week were not the strongest signals

Over the week ending June 29, Quantral tracked 4,800 mentions across 240 names. Rank them by volume and rank them by signal score, and you get almost two different lists. A look at the gap between how loud a stock is and how strong its signal is.

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June 26, 2026

Wendy's was the most-talked-about stock this week. The signal wasn't buying it.

Wendy's drew more finance chatter this week than Micron or NVIDIA. But only 17% of it came from voices with a track record, and Quantral's signal held at a lukewarm 63. A look at why volume isn't conviction.

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Most-mentioned stocks on finance X and Reddit

The stocks the accounts we track talked about most each month, with the bull-bear split and the share from voices with a record.

Stock sentiment analysis, one ticker at a time

A single ticker, read through the accounts we track: the bull-bear split, and what Quantral's score said while the price moved.

X (FinTwit) voices and their track records

Graded records for the loudest finance accounts on X and Reddit, from chip leakers to short sellers. You see how many calls each made and how often they were right.

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October 27, 2026

Who is Ryan Cohen? The Chewy founder running GameStop has bought $118.6 million of its stock in 2026

Ryan Cohen, the Chewy founder, runs GameStop for no pay and bought $118.6 million of its stock in 2026. His 42.5 million shares, his net worth, the eBay bid, and what the accounts we track said as his buys stacked up.

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The Cassandra Unchained X profile: a dark banner of a robed classical figure leaning over a glowing table of charts, a round avatar in the same style, the verified name Cassandra Unchained, the handle @michaeljburry, a bio calling it the official X account for Michael Burry, MD, with a link to michaeljburry.substack.com, joined November 2011, 40 following and 2.1M followers.
October 26, 2026

Who is Michael Burry? The Big Short investor bet against Nvidia while our best graded accounts stayed nearly 6-to-1 bullish

Michael Burry is the Big Short investor who now writes the Cassandra Unchained Substack. His Nvidia puts, Scion's 13F filings, why no net worth figure holds up, and what the accounts we track said about Nvidia during his short.

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The Roaring Kitty X profile: a black-and-white banner of a kitten reaching for a red ball of yarn with the word roaringkitty, a round avatar of a kitten in a red bandanna, the verified name Roaring Kitty, the handle @TheRoaringKitty, a link to youtube.com/c/RoaringKitty, joined November 2014, 90 following and 1.6M followers.
October 24, 2026

Who is Roaring Kitty? Keith Gill, his GameStop trade, and the 2026 hype our best accounts didn't buy

Roaring Kitty is Keith Gill, who turned a $53,000 GameStop bet into a $48 million screenshot. How much he made, why no net worth figure holds up, and what the accounts we track said about GME in 2026.

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The TOGI X profile: a dark party-photo banner, a round avatar, the verified name TOGI, the handle @ShaneStoffer, the bio "AREYOUNOTENTERTAINED?", a link to togi.us, joined May 2024, 157 following and 140.8K followers.
October 23, 2026

Who is Togi? Shane Stoffer and the Moderna trade, minute by minute

Togi is Shane Stoffer, the streamer behind @ShaneStoffer, who flipped a Moderna calls position into about $470,000 of puts on Oct 22 and caught the leak-driven crash. The timestamps show he got lucky rather than moving the stock, and the sell-the-news case was already public from accounts with records.

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October 22, 2026

Inverse Cramer: the meme, the inverse Cramer ETF, and Jim Cramer's graded record

Inverse Cramer explained: who Jim Cramer is, why the meme exists, what happened to the inverse Cramer ETF, and how 103 of his calls graded on Quantral.

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The Kevin Xu X profile: a banner showing an Alpha push notification that reads "trust me bro, follow for trades", the verified name Kevin Xu, and the bio "CEO @alpha_ai. Net worth $11,451,825.11. Trades in highlights. Subscribe for realtime alerts.", joined August 2008, 195.5K followers.
September 3, 2026

Who is Kevin Xu? The trader behind Sir Jack A Lot

Kevin Xu turned $35,000 into $8 million and posted every trade on Reddit's RaceTo10Million as Sir Jack A Lot. Who the trader is and whether his public record holds up.

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The CK Capital X profile: a plain black banner with the single word "conviction", a monochrome avatar of a tuxedoed film star with a cigarette, the bio "Investor in defense, space, tech & photonics | Co-Owner @CVresearch_ | Portfolio live on Autopilot | NFA DYOR", joined May 2020, 88.3K followers.
September 2, 2026

Who is CKCapitalxx? The record behind the conviction

CK Capital's X banner is a single word: conviction. The account posts small-cap AI and photonics theses at a dozen a day and keeps turning up in our own receipts tables, so we graded the conviction: 2,229 tracked stock posts since March, a fourteen-to-one bullish lean, and 103 graded calls at 54.4% right on our June 2026 board. Here is who they are and what the record shows.

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The TheValueist X profile: a collage banner spelling GRATTITUDE, an illustrated avatar of a suited figure at a trading desk, the bio "Disc L/S | TMT+Energy. ISO convexity. Factor aware. Path independence matters. Results never lie.", joined September 2024, 37.2K followers.
August 31, 2026

Who is TheValueist? The record behind "results never lie"

TheValueist is the most prolific account Quantral tracks: 4,949 stock posts since May, its own research site, and a bio that says results never lie. We graded 71 of those calls: 54.9% right, sixth on our June 2026 accuracy board. Here is who they are and what the record shows.

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August 20, 2026

Jim Cramer names four memory stocks. Our trusted voices back two.

Jim Cramer named four memory stocks on Mad Money. Across the accounts Quantral tracks, the trusted voices backed Micron and SanDisk weeks earlier, still doubt Western Digital, and have no read on Seagate.

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The jukan05 X profile: display name Jukan, a monochrome anime avatar over a night cityscape banner, the bio "@citrini | Not Investment Advice | DYODD", joined September 2024, 202K followers.
August 19, 2026

Who is jukan05? The record behind the chip leaker

jukan05 (formerly Jukanlosreve) posts semiconductor calls; Nvidia, Intel and TSMC top the feed. As of Oct 28, 2026: 91 graded calls, 48.4% right, best INTC +123% in 30 days.

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The aleabitoreddit X profile: display name Serenity, a white-haired anime avatar, the bio "AI/Semi Supply Chains Research", joined July 2025, one million followers.
August 18, 2026

Who is aleabitoreddit? Serenity's graded record

aleabitoreddit's latest stock picks as of Nov 2, 2026, with the move since each call: INTC -28.6%, 000660 +9.8%, ALMU +14.1%. 7 bullish calls, 1 bearish.

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July 16, 2026

Citron Research went quiet in March. We graded its last fifteen calls

A jury convicted Andrew Left in June. We graded every Citron Research call from January 2025 to the final post: 12 of 15 right at 90 days. The case was never about the calls.

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July 9, 2026

Credibility beats volume: the accounts that actually move the needle

We graded every account we track that has a real track record. The distribution is not a bell curve, it splits in two, and the credible minority carries almost all the correct calls. Here is what it looks like, and two names that show why loudness is a bad proxy for it.

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July 1, 2026

Q2 is in the books: the voices that were actually right

The quarter closed on June 30, so we graded every call the accounts we track made in Q2 and ranked them by verified accuracy. Twelve voices cleared the bar. Here is who, and what a quarter of being right actually looks like.

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June 24, 2026

Five things grading the stock internet taught us

Over the past month we graded thousands of stock calls across finance X and Reddit. Five lessons held up across every dataset.

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The r/wallstreetbets subreddit on Reddit: 4.2 million members, the tagline "Like 4chan found a Bloomberg Terminal," and the daily "What Are Your Moves Tomorrow" discussion thread.
June 23, 2026

We graded 6,000 r/wallstreetbets calls. Here's how often the crowd is right.

We ran every gradeable r/wallstreetbets call from six weeks through the same scoring we use on every voice Quantral tracks. The verdict: worse than a coin flip, and much worse when the crowd shorts.

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June 22, 2026

Who actually called it? The most accurate finance voices, graded

Quantral grades every call from the finance voices it tracks. As of October 28, 2026, these ten accounts have the best verified hit rates, from 65.5% down to 53.9%.

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Earnings season and Fed days

The accounts we track going into a print or a Fed decision: what they were positioned for, and how they read the result the morning after.

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August 26, 2026

Nvidia reports tonight, and this time the trusted voices showed up

Nvidia prints after the close. Across the accounts Quantral tracks: 386 mentions in three weeks, a crowd running 3-to-1 bullish, and the accounts with real track records at 6-to-1. In July, Tesla and Alphabet went into their prints on 10 to 13 percent trusted volume. Nvidia goes in at 30 percent.

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July 30, 2026

Apple and Amazon close out the gauntlet: how the crowd read the first two, and what it expects from the last two

The script the whole room was reciting, beat, raise capex, dump anyway, met the numbers last night and split down the middle. Microsoft beat everything and its room is 64% bullish since the print, score up from 68 to 83. Meta missed on earnings, raised its capex floor, and its room turned 56% bearish, score down from 61 to 38. Tonight the last two report: Apple, loud and at record highs with a score that has cooled from 81 to 45, and Amazon, which almost nobody in the accounts we track is talking about at all.

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July 29, 2026

Microsoft and Meta report tonight, the Fed decides at two: what the crowd is positioned for

The Fed decides at 2pm, Microsoft and Meta report after the close, and in the accounts we track both names walk in quiet and split: 34 and 49 mentions on the week, scores of 68 and 61, and one shared script, that both will beat and still fall on higher AI spending. The room's real conviction sits with the companies on the receiving end of that spending. And the Fed? About one mention in thirty.

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July 27, 2026

Round two of the megacap gauntlet starts Wednesday. The crowd we track is barely positioned on the four names about to report.

Microsoft and Meta report Wednesday, Apple and Amazon Thursday, with the Fed deciding in between. In the accounts we track, all four are quiet going in: 11 to 53 mentions each over the week, against 185 on Nebius, and only a handful come from an account with a track record. The pre-print lean is thin and split, so it reads as expectation, not conviction. The credible rooms are parked where they were, on the AI-infrastructure names and on Alphabet after its print.

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July 24, 2026

Both megacaps fell on earnings. The crowd we track abandoned Tesla and doubled down on Alphabet.

Two days ago both names carried a warm but thin-credibility bullish lean into their prints. Both then fell, Tesla 14.5% and Alphabet 7.1%, so the lean did not pay. What split was the response: Tesla's room flipped bearish, while Alphabet drew nearly triple the trusted share and stayed bullish, leaning into the drop. And the Fed decides Wednesday.

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July 23, 2026

Intel reports tonight, and it is the one chip name the accounts we track can't agree on

Intel prints after the close tonight. In the accounts we track it is the only semiconductor name where bears edge out bulls, 39% to 35%, while the rest of the chip trade leans confidently long. But that split comes from the most credible room in the group, 43% of its mentions from accounts with a track record, so it reads as genuine disagreement among people who have been right before, not low-conviction noise.

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July 22, 2026

Tesla and Alphabet report tonight, and the crowd we track leaned in right before the bell

Both megacaps print after the close on Wednesday. Over the last seven days the accounts we track got louder and turned net bullish on both, and their scores rose. But only about one in ten of those mentions comes from a trusted account, so it reads as expectation building into a catalyst, not the credible conviction the score usually rewards.

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July 21, 2026

A pop, a plunge, and two very different crowds

Last week one stock we track jumped 22% in a day and another fell hard on earnings. Each drew a flood of mentions, but the two crowds looked nothing alike, and that difference is the whole point of weighing who is talking.

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July 20, 2026

The biggest earnings week of the summer, and the crowd is looking somewhere else

Alphabet, Tesla and Intel all report this week, but the accounts we track are barely talking about them. The loudest, most trusted rooms in our data are names that do not report at all: an AI-infrastructure build and a small cluster of optics stocks.

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July 13, 2026

Earnings season is here: which stocks our tracked accounts are loudest about going into Q2 reports

Five of America's biggest banks open Q2 earnings season on Tuesday, and the accounts Quantral tracks gave them one mention all week. Here is what the crowd is actually loud about going into the reports, from a split, bearish-leaning Netflix room to a credible TSMC build.

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July 10, 2026

PENG stock: Penguin Solutions beat earnings, then fell 40% in three weeks

PENG stock closed at $47.50 on November 2, 40% under its October 12 high. Why it fell after a strong beat, the bull and bear cases, and what to watch next.

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Sector sentiment and rotation

A month of chatter cut by sector: where it moved, and the gap between the loudest sector and the most bullish one.

Best stock signals and analysis apps

The tools and apps worth opening first, compared on what they track and what they cost.

October 20, 2026

The best space stocks right now, ranked by the accounts with a track record

SpaceX and AST SpaceMobile ranked, with the graded split beside each score, SpaceX's Q3 2026 results, and how SPCX and the accounts with a record reacted.

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October 13, 2026

The best Congress stock trackers in 2026: politician stock tracker apps compared

Seven Congress stock trackers compared: Capitol Trades, Quiver Quantitative, Unusual Whales, InsiderFinance, Autopilot, Quantral and the official House and Senate disclosure sites. Which politician stock tracker is free, which shows how trades did, which copies them, and what each costs.

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September 18, 2026

The best Reddit stock trackers in 2026, and what each one actually measures

Thirteen Reddit stock trackers compared: which subreddits each one reads, whether it counts mentions or scores sentiment, how often it updates, and what it costs. Free dashboards, phone apps and APIs, grouped by what the number on the screen means.

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September 17, 2026

The best AI infrastructure stocks, layer by layer

AI infrastructure stocks by layer, from GPU rental to power. See which names our best-graded accounts back and how AI ETFs hold a different list.

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September 16, 2026

The best semiconductor stocks right now, according to the finance accounts we track

34 of the 35 chip stocks the accounts we track discussed fell in the week to October 19. TSMC has the strongest graded room, 26 to 0 over 30 days; ASML has the top score; SK hynix, last month's answer, fell 11.9%. The full table, the dissent and who made the calls.

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September 11, 2026

The best stock to invest in right now, according to the finance accounts we track

The best stock to buy now, by the accounts we track with a graded record: TSMC, 26 to 0 bullish over 30 days at a score of 81. The October shortlist, the best AI stock to buy now, and Nebius as the open bet after a 19% week.

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August 11, 2026

The best stock signals in 2026

Seven stock signal services compared: AI scores, scanners, alerts, and the graded crowd. What each is built from, what it costs, and who lets you check the record.

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August 10, 2026

The best stock analysis tools, apps and software in 2026

The best stock analysis software and apps in 2026: free financials, screeners, charts, analyst ratings and the social read, and which work on your phone.

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August 4, 2026

The best stock investment ideas apps in 2026

The best iPhone apps for finding stock ideas in 2026, and the ones to research those ideas with before you buy. What each costs, and which paid apps earn the money.

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