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FinTwit Pulse
X retail sentiment
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Inspired by a wish on X · Sep 2026

What if FinTwit had a Fear & Greed meter?

Heisenberg asked for a CNN-style gauge of retail mood on finance Twitter. Pulse is that desk: lexicon, bull/bear split, ticker gravity, influencer tilt, volume, and FOMO — rolled into one number.

Sample
3,051
Accounts
824
Volume
69
FEARGREED
61
Greed
greed

As of Wed, 23 Sep 2026 05:24:29 GMT

Crowd 68 vs influencers 53

Six dials

Lexicon heat
Word choice · w 22%
53
+1

Bull vs bear vocabulary across sampled FinTwit posts.

Bull / bear ratio
Crowd split · w 18%
69
+4

9 risk-on posts vs 4 risk-off in the last window.

Ticker gravity
What they talk · w 16%
57
-1

Risk-on names vs havens and hedges in mention mix.

Influencer tilt
Weighted accounts · w 16%
53
-3

Follower-weighted mood. Big accounts pull the needle harder.

Volume spike
Post velocity · w 14%
69
+4

How loud the timeline is versus its 30-day baseline.

FOMO index
Euphoria words · w 14%
67
+1

Caps, rockets, 'easy money', YOLO sizing language.

90-day mood

Daily close of the FinTwit gauge

last 61 · vol 69
2026-06-262026-09-23

Desk vote

Are you fearful or greedy right now?

crowd 68 · influencers 53 · gap +15
388 fear52% greedy412 greed

Hottest tape

All tickers →
TickerSectorMentionsMoodΔ
$TSLA
Tesla
Auto / EV16
60
+6
$AAPL
Apple
Mega-cap16
48
-2
$QQQ
Nasdaq 100
Index15
49
+5
$SLV
Silver
Havens14
38
+3
$USO
Oil
Energy14
55
0
$IWM
Russell 2000
Small cap13
62
+5
$GOOGL
Alphabet
Platforms11
48
+6
$NVDA
NVIDIA
AI / Semis10
54
-7

Live sample

Full tape →
Zero Hedge@zerohedgeverified· 12m

Guidance cut talk on $COIN is overdone. Street already priced the miss. Asymmetric from here.

413 likes38 rts2.0M flw$COIN$AMZN
33 bear
Options Hawk@OptionsHawk· 16m

Quiet accumulation in $TLT while FinTwit argues about CPI. Classic.

159 likes30 rts96.0k flw$TLT$AAPL
43 neutral
Unusual Whales@unusual_whalesverified· 29m

Quiet accumulation in $META while FinTwit argues about CPI. Classic.

632 likes4 rts1.8M flw$META
43 neutral
Desk Notes@desknotes· 33m

Retail is screaming about $SQQQ like it's free money. That's usually the tell to fade, not chase.

188 likes3 rts22.0k flw$SQQQ
60 bull
Lisa Abramowicz@lisaabramowicz1verified· 43m

$META looking coiled here. Volume is drying up after the washout — this is where patient money adds.

465 likes67 rts534.0k flw$META$TSLA
62 bull