Ticker Intelligence

What it is

When a ticker starts firing, Ticker Intelligence opens a single card for it and keeps that one card current for the rest of the session. New activity edits the card rather than posting another message, so a busy name does not bury the channel, and whatever you scroll back to is the current state rather than a message from forty minutes ago. It gathers the things you would otherwise go and look up — how the alerts are stacking, the float, the borrow, the chatter — onto one surface.

What it looks like

Rebuilt in TickerRoom's own components from past output, to show the format. Illustrative, not live market data.

What each part shows

The header

Current price and change, the move since the first alert of the session, and how many scanner events the card has collected. The second line is the one that matters — it tells you whether you are early or late to something already running.

Scanner confluence

How many independent kinds of scanner evidence have stacked on the ticker, and in what order — volume, then momentum, then a breakout. States run QUIET, BUILDING, ESCALATING and HIGH, plus DECAYING once a busy name starts cooling. Repeat alerts of the same kind do not count twice.

Re-ignition

Appears when a ticker went quiet after real activity and has started firing again, written as plain history — three events after 72 minutes quiet. It says the name woke up, not which way it is going.

Alert follow-through

What this ticker's earlier alerts today did afterwards, from scanner-observed prices, with the number of observations and their true age printed alongside. When there is not enough to say anything the state reads INSUFFICIENT DATA, as it does above.

Float

Reported float, and the most recent scanner volume window. Where trustworthy cumulative volume exists it also shows float turnover and rotation pace — how much of the tradeable share count has changed hands, and how quickly.

Social pulse

The freshest attention reading for the ticker, with the time it was taken, so you can see whether the move has a crowd behind it. A stale reading is labelled rather than shown as current.

Squeeze context

Squeeze factor, borrow fee and short percentage as a point-in-time reading, so you do not have to run a second command to find out whether the float is hard to borrow.

Historical context

How comparable alerts on previous days behaved, with the size of that comparison group printed next to it. It only appears once there are enough of them for the number to mean anything.

The footer

Which session the card is describing — premarket, regular hours or after-hours — and when it was last edited. The same state means different things at 07:30 and at 14:00.

Pulling it up yourself

The card arrives on its own while a ticker is active. To ask for one at any point, type either of these in #trading-floor. They are typed as plain messages, not slash commands.

• intel list Every ticker carrying a card today, ordered by state.
• intel <ticker> The current card for one ticker, on demand.

What intel list prints

What it is for

• You stop scrolling. One ticker, one card, current — instead of reconstructing a name's session from eleven separate alerts.
• It answers the questions you would have run three commands to answer. Float, borrow, chatter and alert history are already on the card by the time you read it.
• It separates a first print from a fifth. Confluence and the move-since-first-alert line tell you whether you are looking at the start of something or the middle of it.
• It is honest about thin data. A module with nothing behind it says so rather than printing a number you would have trusted.