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How to Set Up Your Dashboard and Follow Assets

Create your account, follow your favorite assets, and start exploring sentiment charts and analysis tools.

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How to Set Up Your Dashboard and Follow Assets

Creating Your Free Account

SentiSignal offers free access to all core features. To create an account:

  1. Click Sign Up in the top navigation bar.
  2. Authenticate via the next-auth sign-in flow β€” you can use your email or a supported social provider.
  3. Once signed in, you are immediately taken to the homepage with access to all asset pages, charts, and tools.

Your account unlocks personalized features β€” most importantly, the ability to follow assets and track their sentiment across charts, briefs, and articles.

Following Assets

Navigate to any asset page (for example, Bitcoin or Gold) and click the Follow button. This adds the asset to your personal watchlist.

Follow button on an asset page with article filters

You can follow as many assets as you like across all three asset classes. Your followed assets will appear in your watchlist, making it easy to track their sentiment charts, Market Briefs, and AI-generated articles.

What Following Assets Unlocks

Following assets adds them to your personal watchlist, making it easy to track their sentiment charts, read relevant Market Briefs, and access AI-generated articles and analysis focused on the assets you care about.

Asset Categories

Assets are grouped into categories, each with a distinctive emoji badge for quick visual identification:

  • πŸš€ Crypto β€” Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, and 17 more tokens
  • πŸͺ™ Metals β€” Gold, Silver, Platinum, Palladium, Copper
  • ⚑ Energy β€” Oil (Brent & WTI), Natural Gas, and more
  • 🌾 Agriculture β€” Wheat, Corn, Coffee, Sugar, Cocoa
  • πŸ’± FX (Forex) β€” 39 currency pairs including EUR/USD, GBP/USD, USD/JPY

Recommended Starting Assets

If you are new to sentiment analysis, these assets are great starting points due to high news volume and clear sentiment patterns:

  • Bitcoin (BTC) β€” The highest-volume crypto asset with rich sentiment data
  • Ethereum (ETH) β€” Strong developer and DeFi ecosystem coverage
  • Gold (GOLD) β€” The classic safe-haven commodity with macro-driven sentiment
  • EUR/USD β€” The world's most-traded currency pair

Try It: Live BTC Chart

Here is a live 7-day Bitcoin sentiment chart to explore:

Toggle the sentiment layers, hover over data points, and get a feel for how sentiment moves relative to price. Then head to How to Interpret the Homepage to understand the full dashboard layout.