FAQ

What is Astutex?

Astutex is a collection of indicators that tracks multiple real-time alternative data sources in order to get better insights into company brand popularity and business trends

Where do we get the data?

Data is scraped from publicly available websites – search engines, social media platforms, job aggregators, app download rankings, online retailers etc.

How often do we update the data?

Most of the datasets are updated on a weekly basis – on Monday, except of aggregated search data which is updated monthly.

Can you make decisions solely based on this data?

We recommend that you use the data presented on this website only as an additional source of information and perform reasonable diligence into the companies you are willing to invest in. We bear no responsibility for any of your decisions.

What is the section ‘Top ideas’ for?

Top ideas section is comprised of the companies enjoying the best aggregated search momentum with Medium/High relevance of back-testing results and have positive momentum in Social Media and Website traffic. It is meant to serve you as basic idea generation tool which functionality we will expand in the future.

What is NLP and how do we use it?

NLP stands for Natural Language Processing and is a technique to convert text into indicator to express the sentiment of the text. We use Loughran/McDonald dictionary to analyze Earnings Calls of the companies in order to identify the patterns in company business trends. We think this is the only credible source to analyze with NLP as there are both sides involved – management and analysts – which is also proven by our proprietary research.