Why talk volume matters before you look at a chart
Price tells you what happened. Talk volume tells you how many people are paying attention while it happens. A ticker that suddenly gets twice its usual number of mentions is on more traders' screens than it was last week. A ticker whose sentiment swings from optimistic to pessimistic in one session is a ticker where the crowd changed its mind fast.
Most sentiment tools give you one number per ticker for today. That number has no context. Is +12 high for TSLA? Was it +31 yesterday? Is anyone even talking about it this week? CrowdPulse puts every day of the last month next to each other, so you can see the shape of the attention, not just the latest reading.
What CrowdPulse shows
CrowdPulse reads the same public trader conversation that powers the rest of CrowdWisdomTrading, counts how often each ticker is mentioned per day, and scores the crowd's mood on a scale from -100 (very bearish) to +100 (very bullish). The page has four views, each built for one question.
| View | Question it answers | What you see |
|---|---|---|
| Top 20 | What is the crowd talking about most this month, and when did each name heat up? | A heat grid: one row per ticker, one cell per trading day, plus the 30-day total, the change vs the previous 7 days and the latest sentiment |
| All tickers | Across everything we track, which names flipped, shocked or spiked? | The same grid for about 4,000 tickers, filtered and sorted on the server, 50 rows at a time |
| Favorites | How much talk is there around the names I follow? | One card per starred ticker with daily bars and a sentiment strip. It uses the same stars as Weekly and Daily Wisdom |
| Single ticker | How much talk, and how did sentiment move day by day? | A daily mentions chart with a 7-day average, and a sentiment panel under it on the same dates |
Top 20: the heat grid
Twenty lines on one chart are unreadable, so the Top 20 uses a heat grid. Each cell is one trading day. In the Talk volume lens, a cell's color shows that day's mentions compared with the ticker's own 30-day average, from a quarter of normal to three times normal. That way a small name and a giant like BTC-USD can be compared on timing, while the 30-day total column keeps the absolute size. Switch to the Sentiment lens and the same cells turn red to green by crowd mood.
The Sentiment column shows the latest sentiment level, not a change, with the change vs the previous session in small type under it. For example, TSLA read +12 on October 13, down 19 points from +31 the session before.
Single ticker: talk and mood on one timeline
Click any row and you get the full picture for one ticker. The top panel shows one bar per day for total mentions, with a 7-day average line. The bottom panel shows the crowd sentiment line on the same dates, green above zero and red below. The two panels share the date axis but keep separate scales, so one never distorts the other.
In the TSLA example above, the stat row shows 12,325 mentions in 30 days, +6% vs the previous 7 days and a sentiment of +12. The sentiment panel marks two shocks: on October 12 the mood jumped from +14 to +31, about 5.1 times its usual daily move, and on October 13 it fell back from +31 to +12. A table view under the chart lists the same numbers day by day.
Sentiment whiplash: flips, shocks and spikes
The most useful part of CrowdPulse is spotting the days when something changed. We tested the obvious rule first and found it was not enough. A classic sentiment flip, from +40 or higher to -40 or lower in one session, fired 113 times in 30 days, and every time it was on a thinly discussed name. Big tickers like TSLA, NVDA or SPY have hundreds of posts a day, and that volume averages the mood out. Their sentiment stays roughly between +5 and +30, so it never swings 80 points overnight.
So CrowdPulse uses three markers, each tuned for a different kind of ticker:
| Marker | Rule | Catches | Last 30 days (as of Oct 13, 2026) |
|---|---|---|---|
| âš¡ Flip | Daily sentiment goes from +40 or higher to -40 or lower, or the reverse, in one session, with at least 2 mentions on both days | Smaller, thinly discussed names | 102 tickers |
| â—† Shock | The day's sentiment change is at least 3x the ticker's usual daily change (its last 20 sessions), with at least 50 mentions on both days | Big, heavily discussed names | 16 tickers |
| 🔥 Spike | A day's mentions are at least 2x the 7-day average, and at least 50 mentions that day | Sudden bursts of attention | 233 tickers |
The 50-mention minimum on spikes matters. Without it, about 3,400 of 4,000 tickers showed a "spike" just because they went from zero mentions to one. With it, 233 remain, and those are real bursts of attention.
Each marker is also a filter. Click â—† shock and the grid keeps only the tickers that had one, with the matching days highlighted and the rest dimmed. On October 13 the Top 20 showed six: BTC-USD, TSLA, XRP-USD, NBIS, IREN and SOFI. Every chip shows its count, so you know how many names are behind it before you click.
All tickers: where the flips are
None of the Top 20 had a flip in this window, and CrowdPulse says so instead of showing an empty grid. It points you to All tickers, where the same flip filter returned 102 of 4,005 tickers. Each row keeps its overall rank by 30-day mentions, so you can tell at a glance whether a flip happened on a name with 900 mentions or 160.
The Whiplash radar
The radar on the right side of the page is a feed of the sharpest sentiment moves, newest first and grouped by day. It has two tabs: Big names for shocks and Flips for the smaller tickers. Each entry shows the move (for example SOFI, +61 to +24), the number of mentions and how large the move was compared with that ticker's usual one. Click an entry to open its single ticker chart.
How to use CrowdPulse in your routine
- Start with the Top 20. Sort by "Rising fastest" to see which big names are gaining attention compared with the previous week.
- Check the radar. Look at the latest shocks on names you follow, and read the mention count before you read the move.
- Star your tickers. Favorites uses the same stars as your Weekly and Daily Wisdom setups, so the names you already follow appear automatically.
- Open the single ticker chart before you act on a setup, to see whether the crowd is getting louder or quieter and whether its mood has been steady or jumpy.
- Combine it with the setups. CrowdPulse shows attention and mood. The CrowdWisdomTrading setups show where professional traders agree, with an entry, a stop and a target, graded in public on the track record.
Every label, column and chip on the page explains itself on hover, and a short 8-step tour opens the first time you visit. You can reopen it any time with the round ? at the top right of the page.
What CrowdPulse is not
Sentiment shows what the crowd says. It is not a buy or sell call. A spike in talk can come before a move, after one, or with no move at all, and a sudden shift in mood does not tell you which way price will go next. Use CrowdPulse as context: a quick way to see where attention is going and when the crowd changed its mind, next to your own analysis and the consensus setups. If you want to understand how CWT measures consensus in the first place, read how professional traders' consensus on a stock is built and what to do when trading opinions conflict.
Who gets CrowdPulse
CrowdPulse is part of the Pro plan, from $29.99 per month. Pro subscribers see every ticker name, their Favorites, the single ticker charts and search. Free accounts can open the same page and see the heat grid and the radar with ticker names hidden, which is enough to see how the tool works before upgrading. See the pricing page for plan details.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is a stock sentiment tracker?
A stock sentiment tracker measures how traders and investors feel about a ticker based on what they say in public, usually as a score from bearish to bullish. CrowdPulse adds talk volume, so you see both how the crowd feels and how many people are talking.
How many tickers does CrowdPulse cover?
About 4,000. In the 30 days to October 13, 2026, CrowdPulse counted 4,005 tickers with at least one mention, including stocks, crypto, indices and futures.
What is the difference between a flip and a shock?
A flip is a swing from +40 or higher to -40 or lower (or the reverse) in one session, and it mostly happens on small names. A shock is a move at least 3 times larger than the ticker's usual daily change, on days with at least 50 mentions, so it catches sharp moves on big names that never swing far enough to flip.
Why does a spike need at least 50 mentions?
Without a minimum, a ticker that goes from 0 to 1 mention counts as a spike. With the 50-mention rule, the spike marker only shows real bursts of attention: 233 tickers in the last 30 days instead of about 3,400.
Is CrowdPulse free?
CrowdPulse is part of Pro, from $29.99 per month. Free accounts can open the page and see the patterns with ticker names hidden.
Is CrowdPulse investment advice?
No. CrowdPulse shows what the crowd is saying and how often. It is research and context, not a recommendation to buy or sell anything. You decide and place every trade with your own broker.
Try CrowdPulse
Open CrowdPulse in your dashboard, look at which tickers the crowd is talking about this month, and check the radar for the latest shifts in mood.
Disclaimer: CrowdWisdomTrading provides general market research and educational insights only. Nothing here is personal investment advice or a recommendation to buy or sell any security, currency, cryptocurrency or futures contract. Sentiment and mention data describe what people say in public and do not predict prices. Trading involves risk, including loss of principal, and past results do not guarantee future outcomes. Figures in this article are from the CrowdPulse data window September 14 to October 13, 2026.