About StockRiot

Last updated 11 September 2026

StockRiot measures retail attention in US small-cap and micro-cap equities. Every trading day we score which tickers the retail crowd is unusually loud about, how broadly that attention is distributed, which direction the sentiment runs, and whether the chatter arrived before the price move or after it. That is the product.

We stay at the small end of the market on purpose. Attention only matters where it is large relative to the float, and above roughly $2 billion in market capitalisation it simply is not — so we do not score it. The methodology page sets out the exact cap tiers and the liquidity floor.

It exists because the available versions of this are bad in a specific and fixable way. Raw “trending tickers” lists rank by mention volume, which means they return the same megacaps every day and miss the entire category of event that matters — a quiet micro-cap suddenly getting loud. Meanwhile the interpretive layer, where someone tells you what the chatter means, is usually supplied by people who are positioned, paid, or both.

Our position is that the measurement is worth publishing and the interpretation mostly is not. We will tell you the crowd is at a two-year attention high on a ticker. We will not tell you to buy it.

Who publishes this

StockRiot is owned and operated by Stock Ships LLC, a Florida limited liability company that operates several financial publications. We state this on the homepage, on this page, in our disclosures, and in our public domain registration, because a reader should never have to do detective work to find out who is behind a stock publication.

Stock Ships LLC also operates Stock Ships and BuybackStocks. Each publication is run as an independent editorial product with its own coverage and its own voice. A current list is maintained on our Disclosures page.

How the daily board is built

The pipeline is automated end to end. The full weighting is published on our methodology page; in short:

1. Collect

Publicly visible posts referencing US-listed tickers are collected continuously from open retail venues. Only public sources — we do not scrape private servers, direct messages, or paywalled rooms.

2. Clean

Duplicate text, very new accounts, and single-author concentration are filtered or capped before anything is counted. Cashtags that collide with ordinary English words are resolved by context or dropped.

3. Normalise

Each ticker is measured against its own trailing 30-day baseline rather than against the market. This is the step that lets a micro-cap going from six mentions to four hundred outrank a better-known small cap sitting at its usual two thousand.

4. Score and cross-check

The weighted components become the Riot Score, a 0–100 figure, which is then lined up against price and volume for the same session so the lead-or-chase question can be answered.

5. Publish

The board goes out by email after the close and is archived on this site as a dated, permanent record. We do not quietly revise or delete past boards.

Our editorial position, stated plainly

A sentiment publication has an obvious failure mode: it can quietly become a hype machine, because the loudest tickers generate the most clicks and the most enthusiasm. We have three rules against that, and we would rather you hold us to them than take our word for it.

High attention is reported as a risk marker, not a signal

Peak retail attention in a small-cap has historically clustered near the end of a move, often alongside a financing priced into the enthusiasm. We say so every time, including on the entries that are performing.

The misses stay up

Every Riot Report includes a look back at previously loud names and what actually happened next, with the failures included. A sentiment publication that only republishes its hits is an advertisement with a chart on it.

We do not produce recommendations at all

No price targets, no ratings, no buy lists, no “top picks”. Not as a legal hedge — because the measurement is the product, and bolting opinions onto it would corrupt the thing that makes it worth reading.

How we make money

StockRiot is free to read. Revenue comes from advertising and sponsorship, and from investor-awareness services performed by Stock Ships LLC and its affiliates for public companies and third parties.

That second stream is the one that matters to you, so here is the rule: where any content on this site relates to a paid engagement, the compensation is disclosed on that content itself — the payer, the amount, and the form — in accordance with Section 17(b) of the Securities Act of 1933. On the page. Not in a footer, not on a separate page you have to go and find.

The board specifically cannot be bought. Riot Scores are computed from measured data. No issuer or paying party can purchase a position on the board, influence a score, or receive advance notice of the output. If a company that Stock Ships LLC has a compensated relationship with appears on the board because the crowd is genuinely loud about it, that relationship is disclosed on the board entry itself.

What this is not

StockRiot is a publisher of general market information. We are not a registered broker-dealer, not a registered investment adviser, and nothing we publish is a recommendation or personalised advice. We do not know your financial situation, time horizon, or risk tolerance, and nothing here is written with them in mind.

Social-media sentiment is not a measure of a company’s value or prospects. The securities we cover are small-cap and micro-cap by design, which means they are frequently low-priced, thinly traded, and subject to substantial dilution — and you can lose your entire position in them. Please read our full Disclosures before acting on anything here.

Contact

Editorial, corrections, and press: editor@stockriot.com

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