StockCop is a news and media service on financial-market topics. We gather headlines from established media and put into context what public communities are talking about. This service is designed as a media product; it does not make personalised investment recommendations.
We take headlines only from a fixed list of established business and news outlets. We show the title, outlet, date and a link to the original — no full texts, no longer excerpts. Quote pages, press-release wires and advertising pages are filtered out. Market data (price, volume, market cap) is there for context only.
We also record how much a company is being talked about in publicly accessible communities, such as Stocktwits or 4chan’s /biz/ board. Of that we show only volumes, the communities involved and the number of distinct voices — no quotes, no sentiment scores, no price direction. These figures are labelled “Discussion / unverified community voices”.
Headlines are content of the respective outlets and are labelled as such — including when they contain analyst ratings, price targets or opinions. StockCop itself gives no buy, sell or hold recommendations, no price targets of its own and no trading signals. Should we ever publish opinion pieces, they will be clearly labelled as opinion.
The order of topics is an internal sorting aid based on how widely a company is covered and discussed. The rules are fixed, versioned and the same for every topic. Nobody can push a topic up by hand, and there are no paid placements. The order is not a rating of the company or its stock.
If a discussion looks coordinated or unusual, comes from a single source, concerns a small cap, or rests on thin data, we show a note. We do not actively spread such topics — no post on X, no email note.
Principle: whoever runs StockCop holds no positions in securities StockCop reports on and takes no money for content or placements. Amplifying channels such as the X account and email notes are technically tied to a corresponding declaration by the operator.
We correct errors as soon as we notice them or are told about them. Please send notes, correction requests and requests for a reply (Gegendarstellung) through the contact form under the topic “Correction / reply” — we review them according to the applicable law.
Every headline that names a company is automatically classified as bullish, bearish or neutral — based on what the article says about that company. The coverage split aggregates these classifications per story and per company (24 hours and 7 days). It shows how the media report, not what StockCop recommends. Classification is automated (word lists or AI), follows fixed rules that are the same for every company, without manual intervention — and it can be wrong.