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news_volume_weighted_sentiment

Range -1.0 to +1.0. The relevance-weighted average sentiment of articles in the last 24 hours, attenuated by `tanh(news_volume / 15)` so quiet tickers (1-2 articles) read near zero regardless of sentiment sign. Strong negative = loud bad news; strong positive = loud good news; values near 0 = quiet or mixed. Null when no qualifying articles.

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At a glance

Typenumeric
GroupNews
CategoryNews
Update cadence15 min
Universeall tickers
Historynone — live row only, not historized (no as-of reads)
Nullableyes — NULL where not applicable

News coverage signals: article volume and volume-weighted sentiment.

Query it

Every applicable form factor, grouped by endpoint family. Swap YOUR_KEY for the value from /dashboard/keys. Response payloads are real captures, sampled 2026-08-18 and trimmed — your run's values and dates will differ.

Use signals /v2/signals/{signal}

One signal across the market: who matches now, who matched then, and a push when someone starts. Docs →

Live — every ticker with news_volume_weighted_sentiment above a cutoff
curl -G "https://api.tickerbot.io/v2/signals/news_volume_weighted_sentiment" \
  --data-urlencode "condition=> 0.152" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_KEY"
Response (sampled 2026-08-18, trimmed)
{
 "as_of": "2026-08-18T00:24:53.128Z",
 "signal": "news_volume_weighted_sentiment",
 "condition": "> 0.152",
 "universe": null,
 "count": 2,
 "results": [
  {
   "ticker": "CTAS",
   "name": "Cintas Corp",
   "value": 0.478
  },
  {
   "ticker": "IQV",
   "name": "IQVIA Holdings Inc.",
   "value": 0.442
  }
 ]
}
Subscribe — webhook when a ticker starts matching
curl -X POST "https://api.tickerbot.io/v2/signals/news_volume_weighted_sentiment/subscribe" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_KEY" \
  -d '{"condition": "> 0.152", "target_url": "https://example.com/hooks/tickerbot"}'

Returns 201 with the created webhook — the same shape as GET /v2/webhooks/{id}, plus a one-time signing_secret for HMAC verification.

Use scan /v2/scan

The whole market through a WHERE clause — this signal composed freely with any other column. Docs →

Live — the whole market, ranked by this column
curl -G "https://api.tickerbot.io/v2/scan" \
  --data-urlencode "q=news_volume_weighted_sentiment IS NOT NULL" \
  -d "order=news_volume_weighted_sentiment" -d "columns=news_volume_weighted_sentiment" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_KEY"
Response (sampled 2026-08-18, trimmed)
{
 "as_of": "2026-08-18T00:24:53.347Z",
 "query": {
  "q": "news_volume_weighted_sentiment IS NOT NULL",
  "limit": 2,
  "order": "news_volume_weighted_sentiment",
  "dir": "desc",
  "fields": [
   "news_volume_weighted_sentiment"
  ],
  "full": false,
  "universe": null,
  "asset_class": null
 },
 "count": 2,
 "results": [
  {
   "ticker": "CTAS",
   "name": "Cintas Corp",
   "asset_class": "stocks",
   "asset_type": "CS",
   "price": 197.741,
   "day_change_pct": -0.0089,
   "gap_pct": -0.0082,
   "relative_volume": null,
   "market_cap": 79841830810,
   "news_volume_weighted_sentiment": 0.478
  },
  {
   "ticker": "IQV",
   "name": "IQVIA Holdings Inc.",
   "asset_class": "stocks",
   "asset_type": "CS",
   "price": 241.443,
   "day_change_pct": 0.0202,
   "gap_pct": -0.0056,
   "relative_volume": null,
   "market_cap": 38954236000,
   "news_volume_weighted_sentiment": 0.442
  }
 ]
}
Subscribe — webhook on a market-wide condition
curl -X POST "https://api.tickerbot.io/v2/scan/subscribe" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_KEY" \
  -d '{"q": "news_volume_weighted_sentiment > 0.152", "target_url": "https://example.com/hooks/tickerbot"}'

Returns 201 with the created webhook object; deliveries carry the tickers matching the condition at each evaluation.

Same grammar on scan and webhooks. This column is live-tense only — it isn't historized, so ?asof= reads and series pulls don't carry it.

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