Daily sentiment
How X is feeling about US stocks, gold, the Fed and inflation: one evening read each weekday, after the US close. The wider Weekly read (X, Reddit, YouTube, Google TrendsA free Google tool showing how often people search for a topic compared with usual. A spike shows rising public attention, not whether people are buying or selling., AAII surveyA weekly poll by the American Association of Individual Investors asking members whether they expect stocks to rise, fall or stay flat over the next six months. and Put/call ratioOptions that bet on a fall (puts) divided by options that bet on a rise (calls). A high ratio means traders are buying more protection, a sign of caution.) is on the Weekly sentiment page and is refreshed only on Saturdays.
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DailyDaily mood · X only · evening reads
Daily: updated each weekday after the US close. One point per trading day, 16 Oct to 27 Oct 2026. Each point is one evening of X posts only, about two hours up to about 17:30 New York time, scored BullishExpecting prices to rise., neutral or BearishExpecting prices to fall..
Four topics, one chart each: US stocks (SPY), gold, the Fed and inflation (CPI (Consumer Price Index)The government's main measure of how fast prices for everyday goods and services are rising, published monthly by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. A higher reading than expected can push interest-rate expectations up.). Dots are spaced by trading day, so the weekend is not a gap. Higher means more bullish.
10 or more posts hollow, dashed = under 10 posts (*) dashed line = neutral (0): above is bullish, below is bearish shaded = bearish side
Show the numbers as a table
| Day | SPY | Gold | Fed | CPI |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fri 16 Oct | −31 (35 posts) | +44 (9 posts; small sample) | −8 (13 posts) | −100 (9 posts; small sample) |
| Mon 19 Oct | −11 (28 posts) | +33 (13 posts) | −48 (6 posts; small sample) | −66 (9 posts; small sample) |
| Tue 20 Oct | +8 (17 posts) | −13 (18 posts) | −40 (5 posts; small sample) | −69 (7 posts; small sample) |
| Wed 21 Oct | +17 (18 posts) | +18 (11 posts) | 0 (8 posts; small sample) | −25 (8 posts; small sample) |
| Thu 22 Oct | −63 (21 posts) | −56 (14 posts) | −14 (7 posts; small sample) | −86 (7 posts; small sample) |
| Fri 23 Oct | −43 (27 posts) | −41 (15 posts) | 0 (4 posts; small sample) | −100 (6 posts; small sample) |
| Mon 26 Oct | +23 (20 posts) | +1 (9 posts; small sample) | −26 (8 posts; small sample) | −81 (5 posts; small sample) |
| Tue 27 Oct | +50 (24 posts) | +46 (13 posts) | −25 (8 posts; small sample) | −100 (6 posts; small sample) |
How to read the daily charts.
- Net score = bullish % minus bearish % of the posts scored, from −100 (all bearish) to +100 (all bullish), with credibility and reach giving some posts slightly more weight. For the Fed, + means dovish (rate cuts favoured). For CPI, + means a cooler inflation reading. Each topic is scored on its own; there is no combined line.
- An evening read, not the whole day. Each point covers about two hours of X posts, up to about 17:30 New York time, shortly after the US market closes at 16:00. It is not a full-day average.
- Daily is not the weekly read. These points use X only and are weighted. The weekly social read adds Reddit, YouTube and Google Trends, covers the whole week and is unweighted, so the two will not match.
- Samples are small, especially the Fed and CPI. Many days have only a handful of posts on those two (the table shows each count). A reading of −100 on a few posts means those few posts agreed, not that the crowd did. Topic-days under 10 posts are hollow.
- One reader. The posts were scored by a single reader (an AI assistant), and obviously wrong posts were removed by hand. Another reader could score some posts differently.
- Mood on X is noisy and is not a forecast. A record of what was said, not a view on what to do.