How people use YouTube creator opinions in trading
This page is educational only. Nothing here is financial, investment, or tax advice. Markets are risky; creators can be wrong; past correlation with price does not guarantee future results. Trade at your own risk.
Influential creators (signals, not guarantees)
Some users look for creators whose stated opinions appear correlated with how a stock moved over a window you define—often surfaced through Studies (we show "batting averages" to show strong correlations). Correlation is NOT causation, correlations can break without warning, and may reflect luck or cooincidence rather than skill. Treat these creator opinions as one input among many, not a buy or sell signal.
Studies: how the workflow fits
With Pro access you can run Studies: pick a signal period, outcome horizon, and universe of stocks and creators, then review results to see which channels lined up more often with subsequent moves—under the assumptions of that study only.
From there, people often watch those creators on the Watching page and read extracted Opinions on tickers to build a narrative feed—not to automate trades blindly.
Feeds of creator opinions on stocks
Once creators are on your watch list, their structured opinions on concepts (stocks) can be reviewed in the app or pulled programmatically (see API below). People use that in very different ways:
- Long-term portfolios — slow accumulation or trimming based on a stream of views they choose to track.
- Swing trading — holding days to weeks, still exposed to gaps and news.
- Short-term / day trading — much faster decisions; some use leverage (e.g. margin), which amplifies both gains and losses and can force liquidation.
“Win big” mechanics (high risk)
Some traders seek asymmetric payoffs with tools that can go to zero quickly:
- Out-of-the-money (OTM) options — cheap per contract but low probability of profit; time decay and implied volatility crush many positions.
- Margin trading — borrowed money increases position size and the speed at which you can lose more than you put in, depending on your broker and rules.
Most retail traders underperform simple benchmarks. If you treat creator opinions as entertainment or one research lane—and size risk deliberately—you align better with how this product is intended to be used.
Where to get your API key
Log in, open Profile, and choose the API tab. Generate a key and keep it secret. Authenticate v1 requests with:
Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY
Base path for these routes: https://trends.smartestcrowd.com/api/v1/
API routes you’ll use for creator opinion feeds
Watched creators → opinions
Returns active opinions on concepts from creators you watch (team or source watches). Filter watches by tag names before aggregating opinions.
GET /api/v1/watching/creators/opinions— API key (Bearer).GET /api/watching/creators/opinions— same JSON when logged in via browser session (same-origin).
Query parameters include tags (repeat or comma-separated names), tag_match (or / and), and limit.
Tagged items
Lists tagged content you created or that belongs to your teams—useful if you also tag entities outside the watch list or want to reconcile tags in your own tools.
GET /api/v1/tagged-items
Tagging creators on Watching
On Watching → Creators, you can attach tags to individual watches (for example “high batting average”, “macro”, “speculative”).
Those tags are yours to define; the app uses them to filter which watched creators feed into API responses when you pass tags= on
/api/v1/watching/creators/opinions.
Under the hood, the page uses GET/POST /watching/api/watch/<watch_id>/tags (and delete on a specific tag) to manage labels—so your “influential” or “experimental” buckets stay separate without duplicating accounts.
Responsible use vs. speculation
Tag-filtered opinion feeds are often used to accumulate gradually: small size, diversification, and checks against fundamentals or a wider process—not YOLO allocation because a creator sounded confident.
Others deliberately take directional bets (long or short, options, leveraged products). If you do, treat position sizing and worst-case loss as the main design problem—hope is not a strategy, and creator narratives can flip faster than positions can be closed.