Archives: Web Crawler
From Raw Web Data to Tradable Signals: A Hedge Fund Workflow
January 15, 2026 | By David Selden-TreimanTurn messy public web activity into reliable, backtest-ready signals. This guide walks hedge funds through acquisition, normalization, feature engineering, validation, and monitored live delivery with bespoke data pipelines.
Testing Investment Hypotheses with Custom Web Data
January 14, 2026 | By David Selden-TreimanTurn investment theses into measurable signals. Potent Pages builds custom web crawlers that capture pricing, inventory, hiring, and sentiment changes over time, delivering backtest-ready datasets so your fund can validate faster and act earlier.
Using Web Crawlers for Hypothesis-Driven Investment Research
January 13, 2026 | By David Selden-TreimanHedge fund alpha increasingly comes from how data is collected, not how much. This article explains how hypothesis-driven web crawlers turn public-web signals, pricing, inventory, hiring, content changes, into durable, backtest-ready alternative data your fund controls.
Leading Tools for KPI Trend Modeling in Hedge Funds
January 12, 2026 | By David Selden-TreimanHedge funds gain edge by spotting KPI inflections early. Learn how custom web crawlers capture pricing, inventory, hiring, sentiment, and competitor signals—then turn them into durable, backtest-ready time series your fund controls.
Why Unique Data Matters More Than Bigger Data Sets
January 9, 2026 | By David Selden-TreimanBigger datasets are easy to buy—and easy for competitors to match. This article explains why hedge funds win with unique, proprietary data, and how bespoke web crawling and extraction systems create durable, backtest-ready signals aligned to your thesis.
Web Crawlers and Host-Specific IP Addresses
January 8, 2026 | By David Selden-TreimanMany crawl failures are network failures. Learn how hosting web crawlers on host-specific IP addresses improves stability, reputation control, rate limiting, and debugging—then scale by adding crawl hosts instead of relying on rotating proxy pools.
Time-to-Signal: Why Faster Web Data Creates an Edge
January 8, 2026 | By David Selden-TreimanTime-to-signal is the real edge. Potent Pages builds custom web crawlers that reduce data latency and turn web events into clean, backtest-ready alternative data. Track pricing, inventory, hiring, and content changes faster than vendors.
How Hedge Funds Use Web Crawlers to Generate Alpha
January 6, 2026 | By David Selden-TreimanHedge fund web crawling turns public web activity into proprietary alternative data. Learn how web scraping for hedge funds captures pricing, inventory, hiring, disclosures, and sentiment signals to generate alpha with durable, monitored pipelines.
Leading Indicators with Custom Data for Hedge Funds
April 16, 2024 | By David Selden-TreimanThis article guides hedge fund analysts on using custom data to identify leading indicators for equities, discussing data collection, indicator development, and integration into trading strategies.
Testing Investment Hypotheses: The Custom Data Approach
April 12, 2024 | By David Selden-TreimanThis article discusses how hedge funds, focusing on fundamental analysis, utilize custom data obtained through web crawlers and data scraping to test and refine their investment hypotheses, ultimately enhancing decision-making and strategic outcomes.