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Alternative Data for Markets

Satellite, card spend, app panels — edge decays as adoption grows; compliance and bias audits required.

Authored by·Editorially reviewed
Onur Erkan Yıldız
Founder, Financial Engineer · CMB-licensed

Overview

Normalise vendor biases (coverage skews). Backtest decay of signal potency quarterly.

Practical takeaway

Retail proxy: social sentiment & positioning — lower SNR but zero vendor cost.

How this connects to Finvestopia

Finvestopia Radar quality blends classical factors with narrative metadata — conceptually adjacent.

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