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Investing tools

Small, self-contained tools built for my own use and left open. Each one shows its workings — where the data comes from, how it is counted, and what it cannot tell you.

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Reddit hype tracker

What retail is fixated on right now. Ticker mentions scraped every hour from eight feeds across six investing subreddits, ranked by how many different people are talking about a name rather than by raw volume — so one person posting forty times doesn't top the chart. Shows the actual quotes behind every number.

Ranked by unique authors r/wallstreetbets + 5 more Updated hourly
Live · daily

Earnings calendar

When the companies that move the market report. Around 120 names — the largest US companies across every sector, the retail favourites, and the biggest global companies with a US listing. Confirmed dates where they exist, clearly-marked estimates where they don't, and an honest list of the giants no US calendar can see.

~120 companies Every sector Rebuilt daily
Live · every 10 min

Volatility Tracker

39 stocks, crypto and commodities checked every ten minutes for moves that are unusual for that particular thing — measured against its own recent volatility, not a flat percentage. Shows how close everything came, so a quiet day looks different from a broken job.

39 instruments Alerts at 2.5σ Checked every 10 min
Live · daily

Macro news tracker

Business and politics from ~40 sources worldwide — the wires, the big US and UK desks, and the regional papers closer to the story: DW in Germany, CNA and the Straits Times in Singapore, SCMP and Xinhua on China, Nikkei on Asia. Plus what the people who move prices have been saying, including their YouTube interviews.

~40 sources 6 regions 10 voices tracked
Not built yet

Does the chatter mean anything?

The obvious next question, and the honest one: when a ticker's mentions spike, what happens to the price over the following days and weeks? Until that is measured, the tracker is a thermometer with no reference scale. Needs a few months of history before it can be answered properly.

Waiting on data

How to read these

Ground rules

What they do

  • Show their sources. Every tool names where its data comes from and how often it refreshes.
  • Show their workings. Counting rules, filters and known failure modes are on the page, not buried.
  • Degrade honestly. Where there isn't enough data yet, they say so rather than printing a confident-looking number.

What they don't do

  • Predict anything. Attention is not the same as opportunity, and social-media volume has no established relationship with returns.
  • Rank quality. A ticker at the top of a list is the loudest, not the best.
  • Replace research. They are a starting point for a question, never the answer to one.

Nothing here is investment advice. These are measurement tools, not recommendations. They describe what is happening; they do not tell you what to do about it, and they have not been tested against actual returns.