# Quantral > Quantral reads finance X, Reddit, and Substack to surface the strongest signals, and the voices that are consistently right. Quantral is an investment ideas app based on social sentiment: it reads finance X, Reddit, and Substack, scores every company 0–100, and grades the voices making the calls on their real track record. It is built by Mayako LTD and aggregates public market chatter and news in real time, so investors can spend minutes where they used to spend weekends. It runs on the web at https://app.quantral.com and on iOS and Android. Quantral surfaces signals and context from public sources to support your own research. It is not financial advice. ## Product - [How it works (methodology)](https://quantral.com/how-it-works): how Quantral turns finance X, Reddit, and news into a 0–100 score and grades voices on their track record - [Most accurate finance voices](https://quantral.com/leaderboard): the finance accounts ranked by their graded, price-checked track record on Quantral, all-time and by quarter, not by follower count - [Homepage as markdown](https://quantral.com/index.md): the full homepage, covering what Quantral does, how it scores, and its features - [Pricing](https://quantral.com/pricing): 7-day free trial, then $14.99/month, or $119.99/year ($9.99/month, saving 33%) - [Open the web app](https://app.quantral.com): use Quantral in any browser - [Download on iOS](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/quantral-stock-signals/id6779207758): the Quantral: Stock Signals app on the App Store - [Download on Android](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.quantral.finance): the Quantral app on Google Play ## Key facts - What it is: an investment ideas app based on social sentiment. It scores companies 0–100 from public posts and news, and grades the voices making the calls. - Sources: Finance X, Reddit, Substack. - Trusted voices: authors are graded on calls made and percent correct; consistently-right voices are weighted more heavily. - Platforms: Web (https://app.quantral.com), iOS, and Android. - Pricing: 7-day free trial, then $14.99/month, or $119.99/year ($9.99/month, saving 33%). Cancel anytime. - Company: Mayako LTD, Varna, Bulgaria. Founder: Maya Koeva. - Disclaimer: not financial advice; do your own research. ## Writing - [SpaceX stock sentiment: the score flipped, the float doubled, the price followed](https://quantral.com/blog/spacex-stock-sentiment): On August 7 we wrote that SpaceX's lockup would be the first real test of Quantral's flipped score: 19 for a month, then 77 after the first earnings report, while the crowd stayed two to one bearish. The test came and went. SPCX cleared the unlock, closed back above its $135 first-day price, and finished the week at $140.00, up 21.8% since the post ran. - [Applied Optoelectronics stock sentiment: five scores on the record through a 62% slide](https://quantral.com/blog/aaoi-stock-sentiment): Applied Optoelectronics fell 62% from its June peak. Quantral published its score five times along the way, never below 71, while the graded accounts ran 7-to-1 bullish. Then Q2 landed and the stock closed 80% above the low. - [Nebius stock sentiment: the price fell 48% and the credible room never turned](https://quantral.com/blog/nebius-stock-sentiment): Nebius lost almost half its value between June 18 and July 29, and across the accounts Quantral tracks, bearish calls did not outnumber bullish ones on a single day of it. Of the 15 big drawdowns in our coverage that summer, it held the widest credible split. Then Q2 revenue came in up 454%. - [Memory stocks are not one trade: MU, SNDK and WDC stock sentiment](https://quantral.com/blog/memory-stocks-stock-sentiment): Headlines call it the memory supercycle, one sector moving together. Across the accounts Quantral tracks, Micron's calls ran 3.5-to-1 bullish and Western Digital's ran 2-to-1 bearish. Then the two stocks went different ways. - [The best stock signals in 2026](https://quantral.com/blog/best-stock-signals-2026): The best stock signals in 2026 compared: AI scores, scanners, news alerts, and the graded crowd. Which are free, which run on a phone, and how to check the track record behind any of them. - [The best stock analysis tools in 2026](https://quantral.com/blog/best-stock-analysis-tools-2026): The best stock analysis tools in 2026, and which to open first. Free financials, screeners, charts, analyst ratings, and the social read on any US stock. - [Retail never stopped buying SpaceX. Today the float doubles.](https://quantral.com/blog/retail-never-stopped-buying-spacex): Retail has net-bought SpaceX every single day since the IPO, and today roughly 912 million locked-up shares come free. Quantral read the name cold for a month at a score of 19. After the first earnings report it flipped to 77, while the raw crowd stayed two to one bearish. The gap between those two readings is the whole story. - [Signal autopsy: Coherent fell 48%. The score stayed bullish the whole way down, and the price came back](https://quantral.com/blog/signal-autopsy-coherent): Coherent lost nearly half its value between June and late July. The Quantral score never turned with it, holding in the 80s and low 90s on a handful of accounts with real track records. Then the price came back 46% to meet it. - [Early August's three loudest stocks scored 87, 80, and 41](https://quantral.com/blog/stocks-that-owned-early-august): 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. - [The best stock investment ideas apps in 2026](https://quantral.com/blog/best-stock-investment-ideas-apps-2026): The best iPhone apps for finding stock ideas in 2026, and the ones to research those ideas with before you buy. What each follows, what it costs, and where it fits. - [The most-mentioned stocks on finance X and Reddit: July 2026](https://quantral.com/blog/most-mentioned-stocks-july-2026): The companies that drew the most discussion across the accounts we track in July 2026, with the sentiment split, the share from voices with a track record, and Quantral's 0-100 signal score for each. - [The week in signals: Jul 27–31](https://quantral.com/blog/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. - [Apple and Amazon close out the gauntlet: how the crowd read the first two, and what it expects from the last two](https://quantral.com/blog/apple-amazon-close-the-gauntlet): 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. - [Microsoft and Meta report tonight, the Fed decides at two: what the crowd is positioned for](https://quantral.com/blog/microsoft-meta-fed-day): 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. - [Signal autopsy: MaxLinear beat, raised, and fell 29% in two days. The trusted room has not blinked.](https://quantral.com/blog/signal-autopsy-maxlinear): 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. - [Round two of the megacap gauntlet starts Wednesday. The crowd we track is barely positioned on the four names about to report.](https://quantral.com/blog/megacaps-round-two-going-in): 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. - [Both megacaps fell on earnings. The crowd we track abandoned Tesla and doubled down on Alphabet.](https://quantral.com/blog/biggest-week-megacaps-and-the-fed): 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. - [Intel reports tonight, and it is the one chip name the accounts we track can't agree on](https://quantral.com/blog/crowd-split-on-intel): 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. - [Tesla and Alphabet report tonight, and the crowd we track leaned in right before the bell](https://quantral.com/blog/tesla-alphabet-pre-earnings-chatter): 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. - [A pop, a plunge, and two very different crowds](https://quantral.com/blog/pop-plunge-two-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. - [The biggest earnings week of the summer, and the crowd is looking somewhere else](https://quantral.com/blog/earnings-week-crowd-looking-elsewhere): 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. - [The week in signals: Jul 13–17](https://quantral.com/blog/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. - [Citron Research went quiet in March. We graded its last fifteen calls](https://quantral.com/blog/citron-research-track-record): A jury convicted Andrew Left of securities fraud in June. We tracked his account the whole time, so we graded every Citron call from January 2025 to the final post: 12 of 15 right at 90 days, 7 of 15 at 30. The calls ran early more often than they ran wrong. The conviction was never about the calls. - [The crowd is rotating: where the chatter moved in early July](https://quantral.com/blog/sector-rotation-early-july): Half of everything is technically 'Technology', which is how sector maps hide rotation. So we re-cut two weeks of market chatter into the corners the crowd actually talks in: platforms doubled their share twice over, memory is still the loudest single room, photonics is the most trusted one, and the restaurant saga emptied out. - [Signal autopsy: everyone loves SpaceX, except the accounts worth listening to](https://quantral.com/blog/signal-autopsy-spacex): 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. - [The week in signals: Jul 6 to 10](https://quantral.com/blog/week-in-signals-jul-6-10): 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. - [Earnings season is here: which stocks our tracked accounts are loudest about going into Q2 reports](https://quantral.com/blog/earnings-season-loudest-stocks): 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. - [Signal autopsy: the crowd was 99% bullish on Penguin Solutions, then it jumped 25% in a day](https://quantral.com/blog/signal-autopsy-penguin-solutions): For five weeks, a small, credible crowd made 80 directional calls on Penguin Solutions and exactly one of them was bearish. The stock chopped sideways the whole time. Then earnings landed, and it closed up 25% in a session. Here is what that kind of quiet unanimity looks like before it resolves. - [Credibility beats volume: the accounts that actually move the needle](https://quantral.com/blog/credibility-beats-volume): 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. - [Signal autopsy: the crowd was split on Reddit, and credibility broke the tie](https://quantral.com/blog/signal-autopsy-reddit): 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. - [Quantral is now live on Google Play](https://quantral.com/blog/quantral-now-on-google-play): Quantral's stock-signal app is now on Android, alongside iOS and the web: read finance X, Reddit, and Substack, scored, from any phone. - [The loudest stocks last week (and what the score actually said)](https://quantral.com/blog/most-mentioned-stocks-week): 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. - [Signal autopsy: the crowd bought the wrong rocket](https://quantral.com/blog/signal-autopsy-the-hype-quantral-didnt-buy): 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. - [Signal autopsy: FuelCell's crowd was 94% credible, and they bought the crash](https://quantral.com/blog/signal-autopsy-fuelcell): 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. - [Where the crowd is loudest, and where it is actually bullish](https://quantral.com/blog/where-the-crowd-is-loudest-sectors): We mapped a month of market chatter by sector. Technology drowns out everything else, but the loudest sector is not the most bullish one, and the most bullish sectors are the ones nobody is talking about. - [Q2 is in the books: the voices that were actually right](https://quantral.com/blog/most-accurate-voices-q2-2026): 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. - [June scorecard: what the signal caught, and what it stayed cold on](https://quantral.com/blog/june-signal-scorecard): 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. - [The loudest stocks this week were not the strongest signals](https://quantral.com/blog/loudest-stocks-not-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. - [Wendy's was the most-talked-about stock this week. The signal wasn't buying it.](https://quantral.com/blog/wendys-most-talked-about-stock): 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. - [Signal autopsy: Micron lit up on May 26, then ran 61%](https://quantral.com/blog/signal-autopsy-micron): 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. - [Five things grading the stock internet taught us](https://quantral.com/blog/what-grading-stock-calls-taught-us): Over the past month we graded thousands of stock calls across finance X and Reddit. Five lessons held up across every dataset. - [We graded 6,000 r/wallstreetbets calls. Here's how often the crowd is right.](https://quantral.com/blog/wallstreetbets-accuracy): 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. - [Who actually called it? The most accurate finance voices of the last six months](https://quantral.com/blog/most-accurate-finance-voices-2026): We graded six months of calls from the finance voices Quantral tracks. Volume tells you who's loud; this tells you who's actually been right. Here are the ten most accurate. - [The most-mentioned stocks on finance X and Reddit: June 2026](https://quantral.com/blog/most-mentioned-stocks-june-2026): The companies generating the most discussion across finance X and Reddit this month, with the sentiment split, the share from voices with a track record, and Quantral's 0–100 signal score for each. - [Quantral is now live on the App Store](https://quantral.com/blog/quantral-now-on-the-app-store): Quantral's stock-signal app is now available on iOS, alongside the web app: read finance X, Reddit, and Substack, scored, from your phone. - [Social sentiment analysis tools: a beginner's guide](https://quantral.com/learn/social-sentiment-analysis-tools): Social sentiment analysis tools turn investor chatter into signals. A beginner's guide to the four kinds, what each one misses, and how to judge them. - [Quantral vs ApeWisdom: counting the mentions or weighing them](https://quantral.com/learn/quantral-vs-apewisdom): ApeWisdom counts Reddit mentions, free and fast. Quantral weighs each mention by the account's record and scores the stock 0 to 100. An honest comparison. - [Quantral vs Simply Wall St: the business at a glance, or the room at a glance](https://quantral.com/learn/quantral-vs-simply-wall-st): Simply Wall St turns fundamentals into one Snowflake. Quantral turns the conversation around a company into one score. An honest comparison. - [Quantral vs The Motley Fool: being handed a pick or shown the room](https://quantral.com/learn/quantral-vs-motley-fool): Stock Advisor hands you two picks a month to hold for years. Quantral scores what the credible crowd is on in real time. An honest comparison. - [What is FinTwit, and is it worth following?](https://quantral.com/learn/what-is-fintwit): A plain-English guide to FinTwit, the finance community on X: what it is, why market chatter starts there, and how to find the people worth reading. - [What is dollar-cost averaging (and why boring usually wins)](https://quantral.com/learn/what-is-dollar-cost-averaging): Dollar-cost averaging means investing a fixed amount on a schedule instead of timing the market. How it works, why it wins for most people, and its limits. - [What is the jobs report (and why stocks move on unemployment)](https://quantral.com/learn/what-is-the-jobs-report): One government report can swing the entire market at 8:30am. What the jobs report measures, and why good news for workers is sometimes bad news for stocks. - [Quantral vs Seeking Alpha: two different things called a stock score](https://quantral.com/learn/quantral-vs-seeking-alpha): Seeking Alpha's Quant Rating grades the company. Quantral grades the room around it, weighted by who has been right. An honest comparison of both scores. - [Quantral vs TipRanks: analysts and the crowd, both weighed by track record](https://quantral.com/learn/quantral-vs-tipranks): TipRanks and Quantral both weigh each voice by its record, then boil it into one score. The difference is whose voices: analysts or the social crowd. - [Quantral vs StockTwits: how the two stock sentiment apps compare](https://quantral.com/learn/quantral-vs-stocktwits): StockTwits shows the raw bull-or-bear mood on a stock. Quantral weights the voices by track record and scores it 0 to 100. An honest comparison. - [What is an economic moat (and why it is the most important word in investing)](https://quantral.com/learn/what-is-an-economic-moat): A moat is the durable advantage that keeps competitors from eating a company's profits. How to spot a real one, and why even the best moats erode. - [What is a P/E ratio (and what a high one really tells you)](https://quantral.com/learn/what-is-a-pe-ratio): The P/E ratio is the most quoted valuation number in the market and the most misread. What it measures, and why a high P/E is not the same as expensive. - [What is a sympathy move (why one company's earnings drag its whole sector)](https://quantral.com/learn/what-is-a-sympathy-move): A stock can jump or fall on news it never reported, because a peer did. Sometimes smart repricing, sometimes herd behavior. How to tell which is which. - [What is a stock buyback (and does it actually help you)](https://quantral.com/learn/what-is-a-stock-buyback): A buyback can quietly boost the value of the shares you hold, or it can be financial engineering that flatters the numbers. How to tell the difference. - [How do interest rates affect stocks?](https://quantral.com/learn/how-interest-rates-move-stocks): Eight times a year the Federal Reserve sets rates and the whole market reacts. Why the price of money moves share prices, and why growth stocks feel it most. - [What is a megacap (and why four of them can move the whole market)](https://quantral.com/learn/what-is-a-megacap): Megacaps are the largest companies in the market, and a handful of them drive the major indexes. What the label means and why their earnings move everything. - [What does 'priced in' mean (the phrase that explains half of market reactions)](https://quantral.com/learn/what-does-priced-in-mean): Great news lands and the stock falls anyway: it was priced in. What the phrase means, why markets trade on surprises, and how to read what is in the price. - [What is a 52-week high (and does it mean buy or sell)](https://quantral.com/learn/what-is-a-52-week-high): A 52-week high is the most a stock has traded in a year. Some read it as a sell warning, others as strength. What the number tells you and what it does not. - [What is a turnaround stock (and why they are so hard to time)](https://quantral.com/learn/what-is-a-turnaround-stock): A turnaround stock is a beaten-down company that might be fixing itself. Most cheap stocks are cheap for a reason. How to tell a real turn from a value trap. - [What is after-hours trading (and why the real move happens at 4:01pm)](https://quantral.com/learn/what-is-after-hours-trading): Most big earnings reactions happen when the regular market is closed. What extended-hours trading is, and why the after-hours print is only a first draft. - [What is the implied move (how options price an earnings swing before it happens)](https://quantral.com/learn/what-is-the-implied-move): Before a company reports, the options market puts a number on how big the reaction should be. The implied move explains why a stock can beat and still fall. - [What is forward guidance (and why it moves a stock more than the beat)](https://quantral.com/learn/what-is-forward-guidance): Forward guidance is a company's own forecast for the quarters ahead, and it often moves the stock more than the results. How it works and how to read it. - [Dead cat bounce meaning (and how to spot one)](https://quantral.com/learn/what-is-a-dead-cat-bounce): A dead cat bounce is the sharp rally that interrupts a crash, looks like the bottom, then gives way to the next leg down. What it means, and how to spot one. - [What is insider buying, and is it actually a signal?](https://quantral.com/learn/what-is-insider-buying): A CEO buying their own stock is public within two days. Why buys mean more than sells, which purchases matter, and where the signal breaks down. - [Low float stock meaning (and why they move hard)](https://quantral.com/learn/what-is-a-low-float-stock): Float is the number of shares available to trade. When it is small, ordinary buying and selling produces extraordinary moves. What float measures, and why. - [Short interest: what it means and how to read it](https://quantral.com/learn/what-is-short-interest): Short interest is the number of shares sold short, and one of the most misread numbers in investing. What it measures and how days to cover works. - [What is an earnings beat (and why stocks still drop after one)](https://quantral.com/learn/what-is-an-earnings-beat): An earnings beat means a company topped analyst estimates, yet the stock often falls anyway. What the beat measures, and what moves the price on earnings day. - [Bull case vs bear case: how to read both sides](https://quantral.com/learn/bull-case-vs-bear-case): Every stock has a case for going up and one for going down. Knowing both is the difference between a view and a bias. How to read the two sides. - [What is due diligence (DD)?](https://quantral.com/learn/what-is-due-diligence): Due diligence is the work you do before you risk money on a name. What real DD covers, and how to tell it apart from a dressed-up hot take. - [What is options flow, and what it can and cannot tell you](https://quantral.com/learn/what-is-options-flow): Options flow is the record of who is buying and selling options, and one of the most misread signals in the market. What it shows, and what it cannot tell you. - [What is a meme stock?](https://quantral.com/learn/what-is-a-meme-stock): A meme stock moves on attention more than fundamentals. What defines one, how to spot it in the signals, and why the loudest name is so often the riskiest. - [What is a credibility score, and why it decides everything](https://quantral.com/learn/what-is-a-credibility-score): A credibility score measures how right a voice has been before. It separates a signal worth watching from a loud room full of nobody. How Quantral grades it. - [Smart money vs the crowd: can you actually follow the pros?](https://quantral.com/learn/smart-money-vs-the-crowd): Following the smart money and fading the crowd sounds easy. But which is which, and when is the crowd right? How to tell them apart in the signals. - [What is a stock catalyst?](https://quantral.com/learn/what-is-a-catalyst): A stock catalyst is the event that moves a share price, and the reason chatter spikes when it does. How catalysts drive signals, and how to use the timing. - [Pump and dump: how to spot one in the signals](https://quantral.com/learn/how-to-spot-a-pump-and-dump): A pump and dump follows a pattern, and it shows up in the signals before the crash. The fingerprints to look for, and how to avoid being the last one in. - [What is a gamma squeeze, and how is it different from a short squeeze?](https://quantral.com/learn/what-is-a-gamma-squeeze): A gamma squeeze is a feedback loop driven by options, not short sellers. The mechanic in plain English, and how it differs from a short squeeze. - [How a finance voice earns a track record](https://quantral.com/learn/how-a-track-record-is-graded): Anyone can sound confident. A track record is a graded history of real calls. How a voice's credibility is measured, and why it beats follower count. - [Volume vs. signal: why the loudest stock is rarely the best bet](https://quantral.com/learn/volume-vs-signal): The most-talked-about stock is rarely the best one. Why raw volume is not conviction, and how to tell a signal worth trusting from noise. - [How to use social signals without getting played](https://quantral.com/learn/how-to-use-social-signals-without-getting-played): Social signals can sharpen your research or torch your portfolio. Here is a simple framework for reading the crowd's chatter without getting played by it. - [What is a short squeeze, and why do they get so violent?](https://quantral.com/learn/what-is-a-short-squeeze): Short squeezes turn a bet against a stock into a rocket. Here is the mechanic in plain English, what fuels one, and why chasing them is so dangerous. - [Bullish or bearish? How to read a sentiment breakdown](https://quantral.com/learn/how-to-read-a-sentiment-breakdown): A stock can trend for good reasons or bad ones. How to read the bull, bear, and neutral split, and why it matters more than the headline mood. - [Reddit vs X: where do stock signals actually come from?](https://quantral.com/learn/reddit-vs-x-stock-signals): Reddit and X are both full of stock talk, but they are good at different things. What each platform is useful for, and why track record beats platform. - [How to tell if a finance influencer actually knows what they're talking about](https://quantral.com/learn/how-to-tell-if-a-finance-influencer-is-worth-following): Anyone can sound confident about a stock. How to separate a real track record from luck, survivorship bias, and selective memory. - [What is stock market sentiment?](https://quantral.com/learn/what-is-market-sentiment): A plain-English guide to stock market sentiment: what it means, why crowd mood moves a stock before fundamentals do, and how to read it. - [What is a stock signal, and how does Quantral score one?](https://quantral.com/learn/what-is-a-stock-signal): 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 it. ## Markdown mirrors Plain-markdown twins of the key pages, plus [llms-full.txt](https://quantral.com/llms-full.txt) with everything inlined in one file. Each published article is also mirrored at its URL plus `.md` (e.g. https://quantral.com/learn/what-is-a-stock-signal.md). - [Homepage](https://quantral.com/index.md): Homepage: what Quantral does, features, FAQs - [Methodology](https://quantral.com/how-it-works.md): Methodology: the 0–100 score and voice grading - [Plans, trial, and pricing FAQs](https://quantral.com/pricing.md): Plans, trial, and pricing FAQs - [The covered companies, with sector and context](https://quantral.com/stocks.md): The covered companies, with sector and context - [The tracked finance accounts and their leaderboard ranks](https://quantral.com/voices.md): The tracked finance accounts and their leaderboard ranks - [Accuracy rankings](https://quantral.com/leaderboard.md): Accuracy rankings: lifetime and quarterly boards - [Sector-by-sector signal notes](https://quantral.com/sectors.md): Sector-by-sector signal notes - [Definitions of the terms behind the signals](https://quantral.com/glossary.md): Definitions of the terms behind the signals ## Pages - [Home (markdown)](https://quantral.com/index.md) - [Features](https://quantral.com/features) - [How it works](https://quantral.com/how-it-works) - [Pricing](https://quantral.com/pricing) - [Stocks Quantral covers](https://quantral.com/stocks) - [Tracked voices](https://quantral.com/voices) - [Most accurate voices (leaderboard)](https://quantral.com/leaderboard) - [Sectors](https://quantral.com/sectors) - [Glossary](https://quantral.com/glossary) - [Blog](https://quantral.com/blog) - [Learn](https://quantral.com/learn) - [About](https://quantral.com/about) - [Press](https://quantral.com/press) - [Privacy policy](https://quantral.com/privacy) - [Terms of service](https://quantral.com/terms) ## Links - X / Twitter: https://x.com/quantral - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/quantral/ - Contact: hello@quantral.com