Guide · mention tracking
Track stock mention spikes without reading the forums
When a stock starts getting talked about, the conversation almost always moves faster than any one person can read. By the time a name is obviously everywhere, the early part of the spike — the part worth noticing — has already happened. Mentioned exists to close that gap: it watches public investing forums on a fixed cadence, counts how often each ticker comes up, and tells you when one of yours crosses a threshold you set.
It measures attention, not value. A rising mention count tells you a ticker is being discussed more than usual — nothing about whether it will go up, down, or nowhere. This is an information service, not financial advice.
Why mention volume is worth watching
Attention is a leading indicator of activity. Before a ticker moves on volume, it usually moves in conversation — more posts, more replies, the same name surfacing across unrelated threads. None of that is a guarantee of anything, but it is information you can’t get from a price chart alone, and it is information that is genuinely hard to gather by hand. There are too many threads, moving too quickly, for manual monitoring to scale past a handful of names.
The practical problem is timing. You don’t want to find out a ticker was being discussed heavily after the discussion has cooled off. You want to know while it’s happening, for the specific names you care about, without having to live inside a feed.
How Mentioned tracks it
Mentioned reads public posts from monitored investing discussion surfaces on a fixed cadence — a fresh sweep about every two hours. Each post runs through a structured pipeline: ticker symbols are extracted and normalized, then screened against a broad false-positive list so ordinary words, indices, currencies, and forum slang don’t pollute the counts. Suspected coordinated promotion is down-weighted before anything is published. What’s left is counted per sweep and rolled up by ticker, alongside the recurring keywords that anchor each name to the actual discussion.
You add the tickers you care about, choose a mention threshold for each, and Mentioned alerts you when the count crosses it. The public output is aggregate and source-agnostic by design — counts, keyword clusters, and freshness, never a map back to individual posts or wherever they came from. More detail lives on the methodology page.
What mention volume is — and isn't
Mention volume is a measure of how much a ticker is being talked about. It is not a price prediction, a rating, or a recommendation. Chatter can precede a move in either direction, or no move at all. It can be driven by news, by hype, by a meme, or by coordinated promotion that the filters catch most — but not all — of the time.
- It tells you a name is getting unusual attention. It does not tell you why, or what happens next.
- It is most useful as an early heads-up to go look closer — not as a signal to act on by itself.
- Mentioned never issues buy or sell calls, price targets, or personal advice.
Three ways people try to keep up
| Approach | The catch |
|---|---|
| Scroll the threads yourself | Free, but it doesn’t scale — you can watch a couple of names, not a watchlist, and you only see a spike once it’s already obvious. |
| Paid alert rooms | Usually orbit one person’s calls and incentives. You’re buying someone’s opinion, not a neutral read on what the crowd is discussing. |
| Aggregate mention alerts | What Mentioned does: automated, source-agnostic counts across the whole feed, with threshold alerts for your tickers and no buy/sell calls attached. |
Getting started
The free app lets you save a watchlist, set mention thresholds, and watch the aggregate trending feed. You can use it without an account; sign in to sync across devices and to receive alerts when the app is closed. If you just want to see what the crowd is talking about right now, the live leaderboard is the place to start.