Released: Improved tagging of stocks in articles and comments

22nd Dec '22 by Keelan Cooper

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Now providing you with the ability to tag any global stock in articles and comments for more engaging discussion and debates.

One of the most notable aspects of Stockopedia is the fact that it has one of the smartest investment communities on the internet. The members of our community regularly provide articles filled with reliable and unique insights, in addition to useful advice and feedback via the comments section.

The benefit of this is that article knowledge sharing does not stop after an article has been published, but can often lead to continued discussion and debate that spans over the subsequent months and years.

As part of our open arms philosophy to encourage all knowledge sharing, we have now made improvements to how StockReports are linked to articles and comments.

Referencing a database of over 63,000 equities

By developing an easier way to correctly reference a stock first time, authors and readers can now check the accuracy of a linked StockReport before publishing any article or comment, and reference our global database of equities. For example, you can now ‘@’ mention the international stocks you own - like Apple, Amazon or Microsoft.

Universal comment tagging/referencing will lay the foundations for further insightful discussions around both UK and global stocks on the site, and make it easier to find useful information on the stocks that are of interest to you.

How to tag/reference any stock

StockReport referencing can simply be activated by inputting the ‘@’ symbol when writing your comments. This will activate the familiar Stockopedia stock search engine, allowing you to type the security name or ticker and confidently select and link a StockReport to your comment before publishing. Or if you prefer to write your editorial externally to paste into Stockopedia, including the ‘@‘ symbol before a ticker now allows you to visibly check all the StockReport links are correct before posting to the site.

Previously, this was activated by putting the '£' symbol in front of the ticker, which did not instantly connect to the StockReport, but only made a connection after the post was submitted to the site. Whilst users will continue to be able to use the ‘£’ sign to tag UK stocks, but we highly recommend adapting to the new ‘@’ method to ensure your article and comments are correctly linked.

We hope that removing the previous quirks for the author and increasing stock tagging to all securities held in the Stockopedia databases, will not only improve the accuracy of linked StockReports, but ease navigation for all users globally.

Elio D'Amato

22nd Dec '22

Great for us authors down in the land of Oz! Especially as £ is not on our keyboards. Well done Keelan and Team! Ps works fine for our coverage. Look forward to using it tomorrow.

Keelan Cooper

Hi Indie and Snazzytime,

Previously, if you used the '£' symbol, you would not be able to view and select the stock you had tagged.

Using the @ symbol means that:

The StockReport will be linked to within the article and in the sidebar next to the article.
You can correctly reference any UK or global StockReport before posting a comment.

I have attached a GIF below to highlight this in action.

Kind regards,

Keelan

Hi Elio,

Thank you for the feedback.

Great to hear that it’s working well in the land of Oz!

Rusty2

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dfs12

This looks great. Can you confirm the searchability of the articles with @ticker links in them. If you enter the ticker or company name into the Stockopedia search box will articles containing these @links be listed in the results?

There has been issues with tags on reports disappearing, has that been fixed now. Paul has spent some time adding them back on.

Hi Rusty2,

The author of a comment using the '£' sign is unable to confirm their referenced StockReport selection before publication, creating some issues.

For example, if you mistyped a ticker, i.e. '£'BOH instead of '£'BOO, then you might have referenced an incorrect StockReport and you may not have spotted this before commenting.

Now, by using the '@' mention, our search engine will automatically be activated, allowing you to specifically select the StockReport you meant to reference before you post a comment.

Hi Keelan, thanks, I understand what you meant now. Even if you typed the correct ticker it would sometimes come up with the wrong stock. The £xxx did not always work either for various reasons, so lets hope this is better.

Hi dfs12,

We haven’t developed a searchable discussion stream functionality yet, using our ‘@’ referencing. However, this is something are keen to work on adding to the site in the future.

Snazzytime

Thanks for that Keelan.

That was the point I was trying to seek clarity on in my earlier posts but you obviously didn't pick up on that. I guess I didn't explain myself well enough.

I think because you mentioned 'tagging' in the article, I (and others) thought this was related to the tagging issue that Paul has been experiencing and was going to resolve that problem. Clearly that is not the case (sadly).

Snazzy

Thanks for the confirmation. Have a good Christmas.

Tommy H

Hi Snazzy

Assuming a UK keyboard here, just put in @ when I am on the laptop gets a pop up box in the middle of the screen which is the same as the search box at the top so either type the name, or the letters and you then get BP (LON:BP.)

I have not tried a mobile yet

Tommy

23rd Dec '22

The only issue I have on the search, is the stock does not always come up or it is far down the list. This is an issue on some large US stocks such as Apple (NSQ:AAPL, which has many levered alternatives, would it be possible that the main stock listing appears at the top when you start to type in the name or ticker?

JamesS

What about referencing a theme rather than a specific stock? For example there's an article today on value traps pointing out possible value trap stocks. But unless I know which stocks are in the article I won't be able to find it. But I can't know which stocks are value traps without having read the article

lernerc

29th Dec '22

Rather than adding more features for international investors, I would highly appreciate if you could fix the serious issue with extremely delayed EOD data upload for some exchanges like the Swiss stock exchange creating a mess for accurately tracking a global portfolio. I have been complaining about this issue for more than two years without any success. This is not a licensing issue: you could at least upload data the same day that the exchange closes, not on Monday the closing price of Friday, mixed with intraday prices of stocks that trade on other exchanges

Andreas Muller

30th Dec '22

I can only support this claim. In addition, I would also like to track my portfolio's performance in CHF.

epo001

5th Jan '23

"One of the most notable aspects of Stockopedia is the fact that it has one of the smartest investment communities on the internet. The members of our community regularly provide articles filled with reliable and unique insights, in addition to useful advice and feedback via the comments section."

Thank you for that, best laugh I've had this year.

If you need to enter a literal @ then typing ESC at the prompt will exit the prompt leaving the @ entered; this is one way in which you could enter say 5000 @ 1.23 without creating a link.

Following up wolfspirit's comment, I experimented with typing nonsense. It looks like some regular expression is botched, if I type @nea* then I get all sorts of silly completions; typing @nea\x gives me lots of silly completions which happen to contain X. The lookup should fail as soon as the text after @ does not match consecutive characters in a stock name or stock symbol, it is not doing that. If special characters are permitted then they should be documented, otherwise they should cause an input lookup failure.

Edit: typing @lax gives a list in which many entries have no visible text highlighted in yellow showing (I suppose) that text matching is happening somewhere unintended.

26th Sep '23

Why is the tagging problem going to be fixed? I'm fed up reporting tags going missing, after they have been added to articles and reports. The SCVR is particularly common for this to happen.

Oliver Cooper

Interesting that you mention this. Internally we found this issue difficult to replicate and hence debug, but through detailed investigation we were able to identify a possible cause and released a fix for this issue earlier in the week. We have set up alerting should any tagging be dropped on these pages going forward and whilst we have not seen a reoccurrence yet, we are monitoring the situation.

Probably before the fix but you may want to look at Mark Simpson's last 2 articles, all the tags went missing.

Released: Improved tagging of stocks in articles and comments

Referencing a database of over 63,000 equities

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