Quantral now reads finance shows on YouTube, and grades every speaker
By Maya Koeva · October 9, 2026 · 5 min read
Quantral now reads finance shows on YouTube. We picked the shows by hand: market shows, investing podcasts, long interviews with fund managers and founders, and Korean investing shows. You see the stock calls made on them in the app next to finance X, Reddit, Substack and Naver, with the name of the person who made each one.
Each speaker gets a track record of their own. A host builds one show after show, and so does a guest who drops by once a quarter, so you can check whether the voice on screen has been right before.
Why we handpick the shows
Most of finance YouTube is thumbnails: a red arrow, a shocked face, a ticker promised to explode by Friday. We leave that out. Quantral reads shows where people argue a case on air: a fund manager walking through a position, an analyst defending a price target, a host taking calls on what to buy and what to sell.
We choose them the same way we choose the X accounts and Naver blogs we track. A show makes the cut when its guests make real calls on real companies and give reasons you can check. A channel that only reacts to the news, or sells a course, stays out.
You get a score built on shows where people defend their calls, instead of one built on any video with a ticker in the title.
Every speaker, graded on their own calls
A finance show is a room full of voices. One episode can have a host, an analyst and a CEO, each with a different view. Grading the channel would blur them together, so Quantral grades the people.
- Hosts and guests get separate records. Jim Cramer's calls build Jim Cramer's record. A fund manager who guests on several shows builds one record across them.
- We grade a call against the time frame it came with. "Own it, don't trade it" gets graded over a long window; a call on the next earnings print gets graded over a short one. Our track record guide covers how that works.
- A CEO talking up their own company is not a call. It shows up in the feed so you can read it, but it does not move the score and it does not count toward anyone's record.
The speakers with the strongest records count for more in the score, the same rule we apply to every other source. A guest who keeps missing counts for little, however confident they sound on air.
What a show call looks like in the app
Each call reads as one line in English: who said it, what they said about the stock, and which way they lean. Some recent ones:
- Jim Cramer on Nvidia: told a caller to own the stock rather than trade it, since it keeps breaking out. Bullish, long term.
- Dan Ives on Palantir: said it is "almost going to become a category changer" as free cash flow ramps. Bullish, long term.
- Todd Horwitz on Tesla: called it a pretty good buy among the beaten-down stocks. Bullish.
A second opinion on the loudest names
Shows add a different crowd to the score. The X accounts we track lean toward the AI trade. The guests on finance shows spread wider: banks, retailers, energy, homebuilders, the companies a fund manager owns for a decade.
Show guests can also spot a turn before the timeline does. In late September, guests on separate shows turned bearish on Oracle, pointing at its debt and the cost of its data center build. The X accounts we track still leaned bullish that week. Oracle slid over the days that followed, and both calls sit in Quantral with the speakers' names on them.
Where you find it
- On the company page. Show calls sit in the feed and the recap next to every other source, and they count toward the score.
- On the speaker's page. Each speaker has a page with their role, their calls and their record.
- In Explore, as its own source, next to X, Reddit, Substack, Naver, Telegram broker research, Congress and insiders.
- In alerts. A call on a stock you follow tells you it was posted on a show.
- Through the Quantral MCP server. Ask Claude or ChatGPT about a stock and the show calls come back with the speaker's name.
For more on where shows fit among the sources investors use beyond price and filings, see our guide to alternative data.
FAQ
Which shows does Quantral read? A handpicked set of finance shows on YouTube: market shows, investing podcasts, interview shows and Korean investing shows. We add a show when its speakers make real calls on real companies, and we drop shows that stop doing that.
What counts as a call? A speaker leaning bullish or bearish on a specific company, with a reason. A passing mention, like a stock named in a list of market movers, shows up in the feed as chatter and does not count toward the score or the speaker's record.
Do show calls change the score? Yes. They count toward the score on the company they are about, next to posts from X, Reddit, Substack and Naver. A speaker with a stronger record counts for more.
How soon does a call show up? Once the show is posted to YouTube, its calls appear on the company page and the speaker's page.
Do I need to watch the videos? No. Each call reads as one line in the app, with a link to the video if you want to hear it.
Does this cover Korean shows? Yes. Calls from Korean investing shows come through in English, so you can follow them on Samsung Electronics or SK Hynix without speaking Korean.
Try it
Open any stock in the app, on the web at app.quantral.com, on iOS, or on Android, and look for YouTube in the feed. Start with a free trial.
Quantral surfaces signals and context from public sources to support your own research. Nothing here is financial advice or a recommendation to buy or sell.