# What is a stock signal, and how does Quantral score one? > A plain-English explainer on social stock signals: what they are, how Quantral turns finance X, Reddit, and news into a 0–100 score, and how to read that number without getting burned. By Maya Koeva · 2026-06-17  A **stock signal** is any piece of public information that hints at where attention, and potentially money, is moving around a company. On social platforms, that signal lives in the conversation: who is talking about a stock, how much, how positively, and whether the people talking have been right before. The problem is volume. Thousands of posts land every hour across finance X, Reddit, and the news. Most of it is noise. The hard part isn't finding opinions; it's separating the signal from the noise, fast. That's the job Quantral does. ## How Quantral turns chatter into a score Quantral reads public posts on finance X and Reddit and public financial news in real time, then distills the activity around each company into a single **0–100 signal score**. Three things shape that number: 1. **Volume:** how much a company is being discussed right now relative to its normal baseline. 2. **Sentiment:** whether that discussion is positive, negative, or just chatter. 3. **Credibility:** *who* is doing the talking. Quantral grades every author on their real track record: how many calls they've made and how often those calls played out. Voices that are consistently right are weighted more heavily; the rest is quietly discounted. A higher score means a stronger current signal: more credible attention, pointing in a clearer direction. It is **not** a price target or a prediction of returns. ## How to read the number - **A high score is a starting point, not a verdict.** It tells you a company is drawing strong, credible attention: a reason to look closer, not a reason to buy. - **Always check the direction.** A stock can post a high signal score on intensely *negative* sentiment. The score measures signal strength; the sentiment split tells you which way it points. - **Read the why.** Every Quantral score comes with the reasoning and the trends behind it. The number gets you to the right companies faster; the explanation is what you actually act on. ## The bottom line Social stock signals are a way to see where the smart money and the crowd are looking before it's obvious, if you can filter the noise and weight the right voices. That filtering is what a 0–100 Quantral score is for: a fast read on where to spend your research time, not a substitute for doing it. --- *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.*