Guide · mention tracking
Track stock mention spikes without reading every forum
Market conversations can move faster than any one person can read. Mentioned checks monitored public investing discussions on scheduled sweeps, counts ticker mentions, and shows when attention around a name changes.
It measures attention, not value. A rising count says a ticker is being discussed more often; it does not predict price direction. Mentioned is an information service, not financial advice.
Why mention volume is useful context
Attention is different from price and trading volume. A company can surface across unrelated discussions before, during, or after a market event. That does not determine what happens next, but it is context that can be tedious to gather by hand.
A recurring aggregate snapshot lets you follow the names you care about without living inside a social feed. The timestamp on each snapshot also makes its freshness explicit.
How Mentioned measures chatter
Mentioned reads public posts from monitored investing discussion surfaces on scheduled sweeps. It extracts and normalizes ticker symbols, filters common words, indices, currencies, and forum slang, and counts each qualifying post at most once per ticker.
Public pages expose source-agnostic aggregates only: ticker counts, an evenly bucketed activity timeline, and snapshot freshness. They do not publish raw post text or identify individual source posts. See the methodology for the measurement details and limits.
What a chatter alert means
You choose a relative threshold for a watched ticker. When a successful snapshot crosses that threshold compared with the ticker’s recent norm, Mentioned can notify you. A relative trigger is meant to adapt to naturally quiet and naturally busy names.
- An alert is a prompt to investigate, not an instruction to trade.
- High chatter can accompany positive, negative, mixed, or insignificant events.
- Source or runner limits can delay a scheduled sweep, so freshness always matters.
A practical workflow
- Add the tickers you already want to follow.
- Choose a chatter threshold that fits how noisy each name normally is.
- Use an alert or leaderboard change as a reason to research the underlying event.
- Make any financial decision from independent evidence, never mention volume alone.