Verified Accounts

Meet OTC CEOs on OTC WATCH

OTC Watch has a verified CEO Platform. We have direct contact with the companies that our using our verified service. We strive to contact the companies at least once a month, and regularly monitor the activity on their accounts. You can spot verified companies by locating the blue check mark in their profiles. To locate verified companies, simply select the “verified” filter in the members list

How Do We Verify Companies?

First Contact with Company

At this stage we become acquainted with the company and gain understanding as to what they do. This is the “Ice Breaker” moment.

Make Sure They Qualify

After we understand what the company does and who they are, we must make sure the qualify for verification.

Research The Company

Next, we perform research on the company and their stock ticker. We ensure they are an OTC company and perform additional research to see if they would be a good candidate for verification.

Verify Information with Company

We verify the information exchanged with the company to make sure it’s valid and inline with the profile information provided by OTC Markets. We require companies to use the exact contact information provided on their OTC Market’s profile, and send a verification email request to their publicly listed email account.

Introduce Company

If the company is a good fit and meets our verification criteria we introduce them to the community. We typically help them identify investors based on message board posts and posts tagged with their stock ticker.

Provide the Company with Moderation Tools

We provide a set of tools to the verified companies that allow them to moderate their verified properties. This gives them control over any non-sense that might occur or mislead investors.

Provide Support to Company

For verified companies and investors to take advantage of our site to build stronger relationships we provide them with on-going support. This includes the basic creation of verified properties, in addition to tools that help them understand the platform better.

Make Sure the Company is Compliant

In an effort to provide a safe and transparent community we require companies to adhere to our community posting guidelines. Additionally, we monitor abuse reports that could potentially effect the company’s reputation on the site.

Ticker Walls

Connect With Tickers

OTC Watch uses cashtags and hashtags to help users connect with ideas more efficiently. Tags can be posted anywhere on the site, or searched for research. We also have pages dedicated to ticker and hash trends.

Using Ticker Walls

Find the Latest News on Any Ticker

Our post robot works 24/7 keeping the feeds fresh. He posts the latest news on companies and places them into ticker walls. His news also posts to the message board for each company. He is a busy robot posting an average of 100 news articles a day. You can visit his profile here You can also comment on the latest news in any ticker news feed.

Show All Posts by Stock Ticker

The Ticker Wall filter will allow you to sort posts by post type. You can see news updates from Robot, media updates from members, new forum topics, and a bunch more. The filter is located to the right of the ticker wall, at the top.

Add Content to Ticker Walls

You can add content to global Ticker Walls anywhere on the site. To add content simply put the “$” sign followed by the ticker symbol. This is a powerful post type as it can connect posts from members to groups to message boards etc. Add “$” to any post anywhere. You can also use “#” followed by text to connect other ideas

View Most Posted Companies

Ticker Walls feed the OTC Trends data site-wide. OTC Trends is a collection of features built into the platform that uses post data to feed the “WATCH” algorithm. To view the most posted companies click here.OTC Trends and the “WATCH” algorithm are still in beta

Post or View Media in Ticker Walls

You can add media content to global Ticker Walls anywhere on the site. To do this create a media post and add the “$” sign followed by the ticker symbol. This is a useful feature when uploading media to discussion board topics. To view media updates only, select the “media updates” filter on any ticker wall.

Ticker Walls Built into Each Forum

A Ticker Wall for each company is available in all stock message boards. This provides a quick way to get ideas before posting new topics. In any company forum click the “Wall” tab

Ticker Walls Built into Each Profile

Ticker Walls are built into each member profile. You can access them by visiting any member profile and searching their search form with a stock symbol. This will allow you to see what ideas they have, and help you connect more efficiently. The idea is to follow folks that have similar investing styles, which makes for friendly conversation.You do not have to be friends to search public posts

Ticker Walls Built into Each Group

Group Ticker Walls are active in all public groups. You can find specific companies by searching for them in the group’s search form. This is helpful when trying to determine how a certain group of people are feeling about a company. You must join a group to post to their wall

Watch Algorithm

Analyze Every OTC Stock

The “Watch” algorithm will allow users to analyze over 10,000 OTC tickers simultaneously. We would write more here but don’t want to have our idea ripped off by posting the secret sauce. The algorithm is slated to launch in December of 2018, and registered members will get to kick the tires for free. More info will be shared as the algorithm comes to completion.

What’s Coming

Algorithm Will Cover Every OTC Stock

The watch algorithm will combine every OTC stock into one incredible view. This feature will utilize over 50 data points when determining it’s default user view. During beta mode we will be conducting A/B user testing

Real-Time Tracking on Every OTC Stock

Our algorithm will be powered by it’s own dedicated server farm. This will allow us to provide real-time insight on every OTC stock. It will take an enormous amount of processing power (and hardware) to get right, but we are confident it will change the game for everyone.We are currently investing into better hardware before launching

Multiple Filters to Better Understand Data

The algorithm will incorporate over 10 simple filters that will allow the user to scan through every OTC stock in seconds. Sorry this is secret sauce we can’t say anything else

Sentiment Analysis on Every OTC Stock

Currently, we have been able to create an accurate, and insane amount of raw data to analyze. We are working on a quicker way to normalize the bulk of data and pass it over to phrase based analysis. This is an extremely difficult process but we are getting closer everyday.

Email Alerts Based on Your Criteria

Users will be able to define parameters that they find interesting and receive instant email notifications as they occur. You will have to wait on this one, we are not saying anything else

Big Data. Small Stocks

With over 50 data points, 10,000 OTC stocks, and 1GB of raw data per hour; we will be keeping busy. However make no mistake, underneath the hood of a monster is an easy to use/understand dataset.Ease of use is the core of the watch algorithm

News With Sentiment Analysis

News is just words. It’s really defined by how it is reacted to. Imagine you could read every piece of data on every OTC stock and do it while time was frozen. This would allow you to have a leg up as you would understand every event about every company, before the market opened. Stop Daydreaming. This is now reality. Every piece of news with an instant, meaningful output

No Nonsense Identification of Promotions

Nonsense stock promotions will instantly be identified and applied to a ticker’s placement within the dataset. It’s about time right?

Marijuana Watch

Insight On Marijuana Stocks

Marijuana Watch beta tracks approximately 160 OTC Marijuana Stocks. We track several important daily events in these companies and print out totals for users to evaluate.
This is not a complicated algorithm output, or even an index total; it’s simply a daily log of important numbers; that over time can be used to view trends as a whole.

Using Marijuana Watch

We track every OTC Marijuana Stock

Marijuana Watch tracks several daily events in OTC marijuana stocks. We compile the information that we have gathered and add it to the dataset for further analysis. Currently,there are approximately 160 OTC marijuana stocks being tracked.The current view will be the last trading day

We Update Data Every Trading Day

Marijuana Watch is updated every trading day after the markets have closed. We review every piece of data for accuracy before updating.In most cases data is available by 7:00 PM (EST)

Multiple Filters to Better Understand Data

Marijuana Watch uses simple filters that can display meaningful insights about the current view. You can also choose how many companies you would like to view at one time. You can get more info on any ticker by clicking it within the dataset

View Proprietary Historical Data

To view historical tracking information on the entire feature, click the “Historical Prices” tab.You can also view charts by clicking on the desired tab

Discuss Ideas in Marijuana Watch Chat

Marijuana Watch has global chat built into the feature. You can chat with others about what you are seeing by clicking on the “Chat” tab. By default you will only see friends here

Our Data is powerful, but easy to understand

Marijuana Watch is a powerful tracking tool that is also easy to understand. The totals at the top of the feature set show the output from the last trading day.The % change column, is the sum of all % change for that day

Watch Any Company

You can watch any company in Marijuana Watch by clicking on the ticker. This will bring you to the company’s message board and allow you to watch the ticker. You can also view the latest sentiment analysis output on this page. We recommend adding members who are watching the same tickers as you

Analyze Trends With the Help of Others

The tabs at the bottom of Marijuana Watch contain valuable charts. These charts show the activity of every trading day and give a insightful view to marijuana trends as a whole. You can also filter data in the “Historical Prices” tab

Live Chat

10,000 Chat Rooms

Our Real-Time Messaging Service has over 10,000 ticker chat rooms. Logged in members can chat in public rooms, or chat with friends. Additionally, members can create group chats.

Using Messaging Service

Chat with Verified CEOs

You can chat with verified companies throughout the site. Verified Companies will be available for private chats if they are in your friend’s list, and online.To locate verified companies, simply select the “verified” filter in the members list

Connect Privately

You can send private messages to any of your online contacts. New messages in public chat rooms will still be visible, but you must friend a member to PM them.The site is much more fun with friends.

See What is New

By default you will join our global chat room upon logging in. Anything you post here will be visible to the entire logged in user base.Please no spamming in public rooms

Notification of New Messages

Each time a member sends you a private message you will get an alert. You will also get an alert for public messages if you are logged in.Alerts will show a “*” for new messages

Media Rich Chat

You can upload media to any open chat session. Share: Links, Files, Videos, or gifs.Please no nudes

Get Social

You have the ability to have unlimited chat sessions. You can close any session by clicking the “x” icon.

Ticker Chats

Ticker Chats are built into every message board. You can join by clicking the “chat” tab in the current forum. Private Chats are disabled by default in message board chats.

Groups

Group Chats allow members to have better control of the conversation. They inherit all of the features of site-wide chats but allow admins to moderate the content.Group admins will have full moderation over their group chat rooms.

Forums

Free Stock Forums

Our Stock Forums were built for the 21st century. Mention members, upload media, and embed live link previews. Logged in members can also create polls, and view sentiment analysis on stock tickers.

Using Forums

Meet OTC CEOs in Forums

You can identify companies that have a verified forum with the “Verified Profile” text at the top of forums. These companies have opted to verify their stock forum and are active contributors in the community. Some of these companies also have verified groups on the site. You can spot verified companies by locating the blue check mark in their profiles. To locate verified companies, simply select the “verified” filter in the members list

Connect With New Ideas

OTC Watch uses cashtags to display the latest posts about companies in their forums. Tags can be posted anywhere on the site, or searched for research. We also have pages dedicated to ticker and hash trends.In any company forum click the “Wall” tab.

Insight On Any Stock

Ticker Beta calculates the average share price and share volume of any stock. We use end-of-day data within the current trading year to help traders analyze the trends of the stock. This data can be filtered in any way and was designed to quickly identify entry and exit points. In any company forum click the “Beta” tab.

Participate in Stock Polls

Create your own ticker polls in any forum. You can also view votes or join in on existing stock polls. There are no limits to how many companies you can reference. We have created one poll with over 150 different options.Polls can be created at the bottom of every new topic

10,000 Chat Rooms

Each Discussion Board also has a Real-Time Messaging Service built in. This means you can chat with friends while creating forum threads or reading existing topics.In any company forum click the “Chat” tab.

Free Stock Forums

You can search any forum for topics by using the search form in the forum home.Forum search is limited to the forum you are viewing

Subscribe to Forum Updates

You can subscribe to any forum for topics by clicking the “subscribe” button in the forum home or at the top of topic threads. You can unsubscribe from any forum or topic by visiting your profile forum settings.

Groups

Group Forums allow members to have better control of the conversation. They inherit all of the features of site-wide forums but allow admins to moderate the content. Additionally, admins can sticky topics to the top of the posts board.Group admins will have full moderation over their forums

Private Messaging

OTC Email

Exchange messages with friends on the OTC Social Network. Users can send unlimited messages to friends our groups. Additionally, members can subscribe to group and forum updates in their network.

Help With Private Messaging

Private Messages with Verified CEOs

You can send private messages to verified CEOs you are friends with. To send a private message to a verified CEO visit their profile and click the “Send Private Message” button. You can also send them a public message by mentioning them in a post (@username)

Private Messages with Friends

You can send private messages to your friends. To send a private message to a friend, visit their profile and click the “Send Private Message” button.You can also send them a public message by mentioning them in a post (@username)

Private Messages Between Groups

You can send private messages to multiple friends at once. Group Private Messages allow users to have a private group discussion. To send a Group Private Message, go to your messages compose screen. Next, add all the users (who are friends) you would like to include in your group message.You can also send the entire group a public message by mentioning all usernames in a post (@usernames)

Get Email Alerts for New Messages

Every Message that gets sent to you on OTC WATCH is also sent to your regular email address. This also includes all forum/topic subscriptions, and site notifications.You can change your email preferences anytime in the “preferences” section of your profile.

Use Emojis to Personalize Messages

We encourage you to personalize your messages with Emojis. This makes life more fun!We are working on adding more emojis to our message app

Easily Manage Your Favorites

You can star your private messages so they don’t get lost. This feature will save your starred messages in a special folder.You can star whole messages, or single replies

Easily Hang On To Important Messages

You can mark messages read or unread in your mailbox. You can also delete old messages or keep everything. There is no limit to how many messages you can keep in your messages archive

Access Your Messages From Any Device

Access your Private Messages from any device anywhere. All updates and messages will carry over to any device you log into your account on.We are expanding this feature when our mobile app is launched

Groups

Groups

Interact with other members in groups. Groups allow users to discuss topics they are interested in. Groups have the same sitewide feature set and can be created by any registered member. Like verified CEOs we also have verified groups. To locate verified groups, go to the groups directory and select the “verified” filter.

Help With Groups

Find Verified Groups

Verified groups allow verified companies to post directly to their shareholders, in a safe basher free environment.
We provide verified companies with a set of tools that allow them to moderate their groups. This gives them control over any non-sense that might occur or mislead investors. To locate verified groups, simply select the “verified” filter in the groups list

Explore the Group Wall Format

Group walls are a collection of all the activity being discussed and generated in a group. They allow investors to filter ideas by post type, and provide an easy way to research or expand on ideas within the group. Group walls update every 30 seconds

Group Management Tools for Admins

Group admins have full control over their groups.
Each group has a set of tools that allow the group’s creators and moderators to modify group descriptions, delete spam posts, edit media posts, and much more. Group admins can enable or disable features, ban members, and control the visibility of the group. Additionally, admins can promote regular group members to admins or moderators. Admins can also control the capabilities that regular members are given. Upon group creation, group admins and moderators can control every aspect of the group

Create or Take Group Polls

Group members can create or participate in group polls via group forum topics. There are no limits to how many polls can be created. Additionally, Group polls can contain unlimited poll options (questions within the poll).Group Polls can be created at the bottom of every new topic

Group Live Chat Feature

Group admins can elect to include a chat room within their groups. Additionally, group admins can moderate their live chat rooms in real-time. In any group click the “Chat” tab.

Search Group Posts

Group members can search the entire group ‘s content by using the search function on the group home page. Group posts search is limited to the group you are viewing

Subscribe to Group Updates

You can subscribe to any group forum’s updates by clicking the “subscribe” button in the group’s forum home or at the top of group topic threads. Group admins can also send updates when updating group content

More Meaningful Conversations.

Group Forums allow members to have better control of the conversation. They inherit all of the features of site-wide forums but allow admins to moderate the content. Additionally, admins can sticky topics to the top of the posts board.Group admins will have full moderation over their forums