Most investment processes are built around scheduled information: earnings calls on a calendar, economic releases on fixed dates, analyst notes on a weekly cycle. The world does not operate on a schedule. Consumer behavior shifts in real time. News breaks at unpredictable moments. Social trends accelerate or reverse in hours. The investors who can see those shifts as they happen — rather than in the next batch of scheduled data — have a structural advantage.
Real-time alternative data feeds are the infrastructure layer for this. They surface what is moving, across which sources, and for which