StandardPoorly
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Got a signal we should publish? A pod we should track?

Many of our best indicators — McRib, Mercury retrograde, presidential illness clusters — started as someone's offhand 'I bet this correlates with the market.' And many of the pods we ledger were suggested by listeners. If you have either, drop it below. We read every submission. The good ones get the AutoResearch (signals) or full transcript + extraction + ledger (pods) treatment.

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Suggest a signal

We want the data points other publications won't track — folklore, lifestyle, calendar quirks, weather, search trends, anything publicly observable where the pattern might lead the market. The best submissions share three traits:

  • A specific, measurable thing. “Number of McRib reappearances” works; “general consumer sentiment” doesn't — we already have a dozen of those.
  • A plausible economic story. Why might this lead (or lag) the market? You don't have to be right — just give us a theory we can test.
  • A public data source. If we can't get the data without breaking a paywall or scraping a site that explicitly forbids it, we can't build the indicator.
Lands in our hello@standardpoorly.com inbox. We read every submission; replies typically within a week. No spam, no list — just one human reading your idea.
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Propose a pod or pundit

We're always looking for more public-market voices to ledger. Pods, individual pundits, conference speakers — anyone making public bets often enough that a graded portfolio would be interesting. The best submissions share three traits:

  • The hosts make specific, tradeable calls. “Chamath is long $X” works; “the host has interesting opinions” doesn't.
  • The cadence is sustained. Weekly or bi-weekly cadence with at least 6 months of episodes gives us enough data to grade.
  • The audio + transcript is reachable. Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or a public RSS feed. We won't scrape paywalled or DRM'd sources.
Lands in our hello@standardpoorly.com inbox. We read every proposal; replies typically within a week. Pods we add get the full transcript + extraction + ledger treatment.
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A few things we won't accept (either form)

  • Anything that requires hacking or scraping a site that explicitly forbids it. We respect robots.txt and ToS.
  • Insider information. If your “data source” is your friend at a public company, that's material non-public info — not an indicator.
  • Crypto pump-and-dumps or pundit'd-pump schemes dressed up as “a new sentiment signal” or “a great trader to follow.” We won't help.
  • Shorteners or sketchy domains. Paste the full URL so we can see exactly where the data or audio lives.

We'll reply to good suggestions within a week or so. We don't pay for tips, but if your suggestion becomes a published indicator or a tracked pundit we'll cite you (handle of your choice) on the resulting page and in the next dispatch.