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iShares Silver Trust (SLV) Sentiment Analysis

Live news sentiment for iShares Silver Trust — physical-silver ETF, sensitive to industrial demand and precious-metals macro. SentimentFX scores every SLV headline with FinBERT and tracks how sentiment moves alongside price, updated hourly.

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What we track for SLV

Every hour, SentimentFX collects the latest iShares Silver Trust news from major financial publishers and RSS feeds, then scores each headline using FinBERT — a transformer model fine-tuned on financial text. The output is a sentiment score between -1 (very bearish) and +1 (very bullish), and we plot the daily average against SLV price so you can see how news flow moves with the market.

iShares Silver Trust is physical-silver ETF, sensitive to industrial demand and precious-metals macro, which makes SLV an especially useful ticker for sentiment-driven analysis. Our pipeline pulls from Yahoo Finance and other major financial newswires, deduplicates by URL, and only stores headlines whose title actually mentions SLV or a recognised alias.

Sentiment vs price correlation

The dashboard plots SLV sentiment against price on a single chart, with a rolling 180-day correlation analysis that reports Pearson r, p-value, a 95% confidence interval and a plain-English strength label (strong / weak / inconclusive). You can also pull the raw correlation via the public API endpoint /v1/correlation/SLV.

Developer access

All SLV sentiment, price and correlation data is available via the SentimentFX REST API. Generate a key on the developer portal, then call GET /v1/sentiment/SLV with an X-API-Key header. Free tier included, metered billing beyond that.

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SLV sentiment FAQ

How is SLV sentiment calculated?
SentimentFX scrapes iShares Silver Trust news headlines from major financial outlets every hour and scores each one with FinBERT, a finance-tuned transformer model. The score is the model's positive probability minus negative probability, giving a value between -1 (very bearish) and +1 (very bullish).
How often is SLV sentiment data updated?
The scraper runs every hour, pulling new SLV headlines from GNews and Yahoo Finance RSS feeds. New sentiment scores are usually live within 1–2 minutes of scrape completion.
Can I correlate SLV sentiment with its price?
Yes — the SentimentFX dashboard plots SLV sentiment against price on the same chart, and the correlation endpoint returns a Pearson r value, 95% confidence interval and strength label over a rolling 180-day window. You can also pull this via the public REST API at developers.sentimentfx.org.
Is SLV sentiment data available via API?
Yes. The SentimentFX public API exposes /v1/sentiment/SLV, /v1/summary/SLV, /v1/prices/SLV and /v1/correlation/SLV endpoints. Authentication is via X-API-Key header. See the developer portal for full reference.