Stock Basket Analysis

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You can explore insider sentiment for popular pre-defined baskets such as SPY, QQQ, SOXX, and others. Alternatively, you can create your own custom watchlist — for example, by selecting stocks from your personal portfolio — and analyze insider activity and trends within that specific group of companies.
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Since there is no officially traded FAANG ETF, we use a synthetic (artificial) index to represent its performance. This index is calculated daily using the weighted average of the individual stock prices that make up the basket (e.g., Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, Google). The weights are either equal or based on market cap — depending on the basket configuration — and updated alongside EOD data.

The SIT sentiment analysis relies on insider transaction data. This means it can only generate meaningful insights for instruments (stocks or ETFs) that have recent and sufficient insider activity. If there are no insider trades, sentiment cannot be determined — or may be considered insignificant.

Please be cautious. A fully green matrix doesn't necessarily mean it's time to sell. The SIT platform is designed primarily for mid- to long-term investing and swing trading. We do not encourage short-selling strategies.

This typically happens when there has been no insider activity during the selected period. When there is no trading or insider-related transactions, the statistics will show zeros across the grid. This indicates that the data for that period is absent due to a lack of activity.

Not necessarily. While heavy insider selling might create a "red zone", it doesn't always mean the stock will decline — insiders often sell at strong price levels, and the asset can continue to rise. The sentiment analyzer is best used as a complementary signal, not a standalone indicator.

What you can observe, however, is a trend where cells gradually shift from red to green — which may indicate a positive insider sentiment reversal.

The SIT platform can analyze the following types of baskets:

• Custom baskets: Famous non-official lists like FAANG, MAG7, etc.
• ETF baskets: Examples include SPY, QQQ, and others.
• Index baskets: Such as DAX, SMI, and more.
• Watchlists (portfolios): Create and analyze your own basket. Available for paid SIT subscribers.

IAS stands for Insider Activity Score — one of the fundamental metrics of the SIT platform. It measures how active insiders are within a given public company.

We explain IAS in detail in our Methodology and have also published a dedicated blog post about it.

Additionally, IAS is a key feature used by our machine learning model, Stock Sense.

Not all companies may have insider transactions, which is why the SIT platform does not display data for such companies.

As the saying goes, "the devil is in the details": an all-time IAS may reveal that insider activity in a given company is extremely low, which could explain why a recent buy/sell transaction has caused a spike in the S/B ratio. That's why it's important to analyze both indicators together for a more comprehensive view.

Both indicators are updated on a daily basis.

Unfortunately, no. Each instrument has its own distribution of S/B ratios. Even a stock within a given ETF and the ETF itself would have completely different S/B ratios.