Every signal, explained.
A market signal is a scored, directional event tied to an asset — what happened, which way it leans, how strong it is, and where it came from. Below is every signal type QuantConomy detects, each with plain-English meaning and live recent examples from real market data.
Live signals
Production signal types, sourced directly from SEC filings and market data.
What is an insider-trade signal?
An insider-trade signal is a scored event derived from SEC Form 3/4/5 filings — when a company officer, director, or 10% owner buys or sells that company’s stock. It captures who traded, the dollar size, and whether several insiders moved together.
What is a corporate-event signal (8-K)?
A corporate-event signal is a scored event derived from an SEC 8-K filing — the “current report” a public company files to disclose a material event such as an acquisition, an executive change, a delisting, or a change of auditor.
What is an institutional signal (13F)?
An institutional signal is a scored event derived from SEC Form 13F filings — the quarterly disclosure of holdings by investment managers with over $100M under management. It surfaces when a large fund opens, exits, or materially changes a position.
What is an ownership signal (13D/13G)?
An ownership signal is a scored event derived from SEC Schedule 13D and 13G filings — the disclosures required when an investor crosses 5% ownership of a company. 13D signals active, potentially activist intent; 13G signals a passive stake.
What is a proposed-sale signal (Form 144)?
A proposed-sale signal is a scored event derived from an SEC Form 144 — the notice an insider files to signal intent to sell restricted or control stock. It flags upcoming insider selling before it necessarily shows up as a completed Form 4.
What is a congressional-trade signal?
A congressional-trade signal is a scored event derived from the periodic transaction reports (PTRs) that U.S. members of Congress must file under the STOCK Act, disclosing their and their households’ securities trades.
What is a news signal?
A news signal is a scored event derived from a market-news article that QuantConomy has enriched with sentiment, named entities, and asset links — turning a headline into a directional, source-attributed event tied to a specific stock.
What is an earnings signal?
An earnings signal is a scored event tied to a company’s earnings calendar — flagging upcoming or just-reported earnings for an asset so the event is on your radar with the right timing.
What is a volume signal?
A volume signal is a scored event that flags an unusual change in trading volume for an asset — a spike above its normal range, or an unusual dry-up — relative to that asset’s own recent history.
What is a prediction-market signal?
A prediction-market signal is a scored event derived from real-money prediction markets (such as Polymarket) — a shift in the implied probability, volume, or edge on a market whose outcome bears on an asset or a macro event.
What is a sentiment-divergence signal?
A sentiment-divergence signal fires when the tone of the news around an asset and the asset’s price action point in opposite directions — for example, strongly positive coverage while the stock falls, or negative coverage while it rises.
What is a signal cluster (confluence)?
A signal cluster is a scored event that fires when several independent signals converge on the same asset in a short window — for example insider buying, institutional accumulation, and a positive 8-K all landing on one company.
Experimental signals
Surfaced and scored, but weighted for confluence rather than used alone.
What is a price signal?
A price signal is a scored event that flags a notable price move in an asset — a sharp gain or loss over a short window, measured against the asset’s own recent behaviour.
What is a technical signal?
A technical signal is a scored event derived from an asset’s price-and-volume chart pattern — a trend, a breakout, or a momentum condition identified from market data rather than from a filing or a headline.
What is a fundamental signal?
A fundamental signal is a scored event tied to a company’s reported financials — a metric or change drawn from filings such as 10-K and 10-Q reports rather than from price action.
What is a smart-money signal?
A smart-money signal highlights activity by the investors with the strongest information edge — insiders and large institutions — when their filings point the same way on a name, distilling “what the informed money is doing” into one event.
Frequently asked
- What is a market signal?
- A market signal is a scored, directional event tied to an asset: what happened, which way it leans (from very bullish to very bearish), how strong it is on a 0–100 scale, and the source it came from. QuantConomy derives signals from SEC filings, market news, price and volume moves, prediction markets, and combinations of those.
- Are QuantConomy signals financial advice?
- No. A signal describes a scored, directional event with its source attached. It is market context and information for your own analysis or your AI agent’s — never a buy or sell recommendation.
- How is signal strength scored?
- Strength is a 0–100 score reflecting how large or material the underlying event is relative to its history. For example, a cluster of insiders buying scores higher than a single routine sale, and a probability shift on a deep prediction market scores higher than the same move on a thin one.
- What is the difference between live and experimental signals?
- Live signals are production types sourced directly from filings and market data (insider trades, 8-K events, prediction markets, news, volume, and confluence clusters). Experimental types (such as price and technical patterns) are surfaced and scored, but weighted for confluence with other signals rather than used on their own.
- How often do signals update?
- Continuously. Filing-based signals appear within roughly a day of the disclosure hitting SEC EDGAR; news, price, and volume signals update in near real time. Every signal also carries an expiry after which it stops being treated as current.