Glossary
The Quantral glossary.
Plain-English definitions of the finance and investing terms that power Quantral's signals. No jargon left unexplained.
Bagholder
An investor left holding a position that has fallen sharply, often after buying into late-stage hype.
Bearish
Expecting a stock or the market to fall. A bearish post argues the case for downside or caution.
Bullish
Expecting a stock or the market to rise. A bullish post argues the case for upside.
Catalyst
An event that can move a stock: earnings, a product launch, a trial readout, a regulatory decision. Signal often builds around an upcoming catalyst.
Learn moreConviction
How strongly a voice backs a call, often signalled by position sizing or how forcefully it is argued. High conviction from a credible voice carries more weight.
Due diligence (DD)
The research you do before investing. On Reddit, a 'DD' post lays out a thesis in detail, though a confident write-up is not the same as a correct one.
Finance X
The finance and investing corner of X (formerly Twitter), one of the main public sources Quantral reads.
Learn moreFloat
The number of a company's shares available to trade publicly. A low float can make a stock more volatile and easier to squeeze.
Gamma squeeze
A price spike driven by options dealers hedging call options, which can amplify a move well beyond the underlying news.
Learn moreMarket sentiment
The overall mood of the crowd toward a stock or the market, bullish, bearish, or neutral. Sentiment can move price before the fundamentals do.
Learn moreMentions
Individual public posts referencing a company. Quantral scores their volume, sentiment, and the credibility of who posted them.
Noise
High-volume, low-information chatter that looks like signal but is not. Separating signal from noise is the entire point.
Pump and dump
A scheme that hypes a stock to drive the price up, then sells into the buyers it attracted. Social signal can be manipulated, which is why track records matter.
Learn moreSentiment breakdown
The split of a stock's conversation into bullish, bearish, and neutral, rather than a single mood label. The breakdown often tells you more than the headline tone.
Learn moreShort squeeze
A sharp rally that forces short sellers to buy back shares to cover, pushing the price up even faster. Violent and hard to time.
Learn moreSignal score (0–100)
Quantral's headline number for a company. Higher means a stronger current signal, weighing both the volume of activity and the track record of the voices driving it. It is not a price target or a guarantee of returns.
Smart money
Institutional and experienced investors presumed to be better informed than the retail crowd. Telling the two apart is half the battle.
Learn moreStock signal
A read on how much, and how credibly, a stock is being discussed across public posts and news right now. Quantral distills it into a single 0–100 score with a one-line reason.
Learn moreTrack record
A voice's history of calls and how often they actually played out. Quantral grades every account on its public record and weights the consistently-right ones more heavily.
Learn moreTrusted voice
An account whose past calls have earned it more weight in Quantral's scoring. Credibility is measured, not assumed.
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