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Make a financial analysis
Turn X threads into a financial analysis
Every figure, with the author who posted it and whether they showed their source.
Free to try, no card. Your X thread opens in Ancher.
Posts in orderAttached imagesAuthor and profile
Kept in parts
Every one of these stays separately addressable instead of collapsing into one block of text.
Headline figuresEvidence per figureTrendRisks
Financial analysis
Figures checked against the sentence or table that supports them.
Financial numbers on X arrive two ways: typed into a post, where they have been rounded for effect, and screenshotted from a terminal or a filing, where they have not. Ancher collects both, marks which is which, keeps each figure attached to the author and the post it came from, and separates figures backed by an outbound link from figures that arrived with nothing behind them.
The honest version
A screenshot of a filing is not a filing, and a thread is not a source
By the time a number reaches a feed it has been through at least one person's summarising, usually from memory and often to make a point. Threads are frequently right and frequently first, and neither of those makes them citable. The analysis exists to produce a list of things worth verifying against the primary, not to replace the primary.
One post in one thread, at post 3/9, read two ways.Illustrative. The figure is invented; the gap it falls into is not.
3/ people keep quoting the wrong figure. the actual number is
In the attached terminal screenshot — not readThe specific never reaches the draft
Financial analysis
In the attached terminal screenshot
FY26 rev $4.18B
from post 3/9
Lands in the draft, with its timecode
- Typed figures and screenshotted figures are labelled separately, because only one of them has a visible provenance.
- Every figure carries the author's handle, since the same number from a fund and from an anonymous account is not the same evidence.
- Nothing is annualised, converted or extrapolated. Derived numbers are yours to make, with the source in view.
What comes out
Financial analysis, section by section
Figures checked against the sentence or table that supports them.
Headline figures
The figures the threads lead with, each marked typed or screenshotted.
Evidence per figure
One line per figure: the author, the post number, and the link behind it if there was one.
Trend
Only comparisons an author made themselves, never a series assembled across posters.
Risks
Caveats and hedges as written, including the ones buried in a later post.
Sources
The outbound links, which is where the actual filings and datasets are.
Threads-to-financial-analysis prompt
The link on its own gets a summary. This is the instruction that produces the 5 sections above, in that order, with the rules that keep them honest. Paste it with your X threads — in Ancher, or in whatever assistant you already use.
Extract a financial analysis from these threads. (1) List headline figures, each marked TYPED or SCREENSHOT. (2) For every figure give the author's handle, the post number, and the outbound link if there was one. (3) Record only comparisons an author made themselves; do not assemble a series across posters. (4) Capture caveats wherever in the thread they appear. (5) List the outbound links as sources. Do not annualise, convert, extrapolate or calculate anything.
The detail, if you want it
How each part of an X thread becomes a section
| From the X thread | Into | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Attached images | Headline figures | The precise figure is usually in a screenshot of a terminal while the typed version is rounded, so the image is the more accurate of the two. |
| Author and profile | Evidence per figure | Who posted a number is part of the number's provenance, and on a feed that is often all the provenance there is. |
| Outbound links | Sources | An outbound link to the filing turns a quoted figure into something a person can check in a minute. |
| Posts in order | Risks | Hedges tend to arrive several posts after the headline claim, where a reader who quoted post one never sees them. |
| Likes, replies, reposts | Risks | A figure that drew heavy replies was disputed, and that dispute is a risk worth recording next to it. |
Everything Ancher keeps from an X thread
Posts in order
A thread is a sequential argument; read out of order it stops meaning anything.
Attached images
On X the chart usually carries the claim while the text carries the opinion, so the image is the part worth keeping.
Author and profile
Whether the author builds the thing or sells against it changes how the claim should be weighted.
Outbound links
Threads cite primary sources more often than they get credit for, and those links are the way past the hot take.
Likes, replies, reposts
Reach separates a thread the field actually argued about from one nobody read.
The four steps
- Add the X thread. Paste the post URL. Ancher reads the thread in order and keeps the attached images, the author, the outbound links, and the engagement counts together as one source.
- Nothing gets flattened. Posts in order, attached images, author and profile, outbound links, likes, replies, reposts stay separately addressable instead of collapsing into one block of text.
- Ask for a financial analysis. Ancher fills headline figures, evidence per figure, trend, risks, sources using the mapping above, not a generic summary pass.
- Check it before you use it. Every specific keeps a link back to where it came from in the X thread, so a claim can be verified without reopening the source.
Where this goes wrong
- This is an extraction of what was posted, not a valuation. No multiple, growth rate or projection is calculated, and building one on feed-sourced numbers compounds every error underneath.
- Anonymous accounts post confident figures with no source. Those stay in the analysis marked as unattributed, and they do not belong in a model.
- A screenshot can be cropped or stale. Follow the link, or mark the figure unverified — the two are not the same and the analysis keeps them apart.
Questions people ask
Can I build a model from this?
You can build the list of things to verify, which is the half that saves time. Every figure comes with its author, post number and link status, so checking a number against the primary takes a minute rather than an afternoon.
Why does the author's handle matter?
Because on a feed it is frequently the only provenance a figure has. The same number from a named analyst and from an anonymous account should not enter your thinking with the same weight, and the analysis refuses to flatten that.
Is X faster than waiting for the filing?
Usually, and that is exactly the risk. Speed on a feed comes from skipping verification, so the analysis is built to make the unverified figures visible rather than to let them blend in.
Bring your own X threads
Everything you save lives in one workspace, so the financial analysis is built from your sources — not from a model's memory of the internet.
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