Alternative data, market intelligence & business intelligence
Guides and use cases on turning public signals into confidence-weighted intelligence.
Cross-Exchange Signals: What Price Dislocations Reveal
No single exchange is the whole market. Prismetric now reads top-of-book from six venues at once — Binance, Bybit, OKX, Bitget, Gate.io and Hyperliquid — to build a consolidated fair value and surface the dislocations between them. Here's what cross-venue spreads, imbalance and consolidated mid actually tell you.
InvestingFollowing Smart Money: Reading Whale Flow in Crypto
Large trades leave a footprint. Prismetric watches the live trade feed for outsized prints, classifies each as buy- or sell-aggressor, and rolls them into a net whale-flow read per asset — then folds that flow into the momentum score. Here's how to read it, and where it misleads.
Use CasesCongressional Trades as an Alternative Data Signal
US lawmakers must disclose their stock trades under the STOCK Act. Prismetric ingests those filings, maps them to the companies it tracks, and turns disclosed buying and selling into a momentum signal plus a 'who's holding this' panel. Here's how to read the data — and its real limitations.
InvestingFrom Paper to Live: Running a Crypto Strategy on Hyperliquid
Prismetric can now execute your score-driven strategy with real capital on Hyperliquid — the same book you backtested and paper-traded, routed to a live venue. Here's how live execution works, and how to move safely from paper to live.
Business IntelligenceNever Miss a Signal: Daily Digests for the Technologies You Follow
Prismetric now emails a daily digest of the news and signal moves on the technologies and companies you follow — so the important shifts reach you instead of you hunting for them. Here's how to set it up and use it.
Use CasesHow to Build Your First Crypto Strategy in Prismetric (Step by Step)
A practical, step-by-step guide to building your first score-driven crypto strategy in Prismetric: pick a theme, choose a signal and weighting scheme, set thresholds, backtest it, and start a live-marked paper book.
InvestingStrategy Lab: Build and Backtest Score-Weighted Crypto Portfolios
Strategy Lab turns Prismetric's live signals into backtested, live-marked crypto portfolios — thematic books sized by score, triggered by thresholds, ranked on a leaderboard. Here's what it is and why it changes how you act on data.
InvestingAlternative Data Strategies: Turning Signals Into Portfolios
An alternative data strategy converts non-traditional signals — adoption, momentum, sentiment, order flow — into position sizes and buy/sell rules. Here's how signal-driven, score-weighted portfolios are actually built.
FundamentalsThe New Edge: Frontier Alternative Data Sources in 2026
The alternative data edge has moved. Real-time order flow, on-chain whale activity, pre-IPO markets and AI-model adoption are the frontier signals defining who sees demand first in 2026.
InvestingBacktesting Alternative Data Signals: Does the Score Actually Work?
A backtest is how you separate a real alternative-data edge from a good story. Point-in-time data, look-ahead bias, benchmarks and the risk metrics that matter — a practical guide.
FundamentalsWhat Is Alternative Data? A 2026 Guide for Investors and Operators
Alternative data is non-traditional information — app usage, web traffic, developer activity, social signals — used to measure companies and markets before official numbers land. Here's how it works.
FundamentalsAlternative Data vs. Market Data: What's the Difference?
Market data tells you the price. Alternative data tells you why it's about to move. A practical comparison of the two, with examples and when to use each.
Business IntelligenceHow Alternative Data Powers Modern Business Intelligence
Business intelligence has moved beyond internal dashboards. Alternative data brings the outside world — competitors, categories, demand — into your BI stack. Here's how.
Use Cases7 Alternative Data Use Cases That Generate Investment Signals
From technology adoption to consumer demand, seven concrete ways funds and operators turn alternative data into investment signals — with the sources behind each.
Use CasesMeasuring Technology Adoption with Alternative Data
Adoption is the leading indicator of technology value — but it's hard to measure. Here's a framework for quantifying real technology adoption from public signals.
Business IntelligencePublic Data Sources for Market Intelligence (No Scraping Required)
You don't need expensive data vendors to start. A guide to the public, credential-free data sources that power real market intelligence — and how to combine them.
InvestingFrom Signal to Alpha: Building a Data-Driven Trading Edge
A leading signal is not alpha until it survives look-ahead bias, correlation testing and confidence weighting. A practical walkthrough of turning alternative data into a tradable edge.
Use CasesConsumer Behavior Analytics: Reading Demand Before Earnings
Consumer behavior leaves a public trail — search, reviews, community, social. Here's how to read demand shifts before they appear in a company's reported numbers.