SIGNALS / LIVE
E-Commerce · BSR trend + units proxy · review-velocity · price index · new-launch US panel units proxy +3.6% MoM · reads AMZN MX marketplace review velocity +5.2% · reads MELI 1P price index +0.3% MoM · new-launch rate +1.1% Fixed product panel · BSR→units is standard-but-noisy · aggregated · no PII Point-in-time history · daily BSR snapshots · category-level aggregates E-Commerce · BSR trend + units proxy · review-velocity · price index · new-launch US panel units proxy +3.6% MoM · reads AMZN
Alternative Data / E-Commerce

Marketplace demand, rank by rank

A proprietary, point-in-time panel of marketplace demand — sales-rank (BSR) trend and a units proxy, review-velocity, price index and new-launch rate across a fixed product panel. Aggregated, ticker-mapped signals that read brand and marketplace momentum on AMZN and MELI before it prints.

AMZNAmazon US / EU MELIMercadoLibre · LatAm
ecom_demand_panel.parquet · point-in-time
signal: "bsr_units_proxy" marketplace: "Amazon US" panel: "fixed_5k_asin", category: "blended" median_bsr: 1840, bsr_trend: "improving" units_proxy_idx: 118.6, mom: 0.036 // +3.6% review_velocity: 2.14 // new reviews/ASIN/day price_index: 104.2 // base=100 new_launch_rate: 0.011 // net new ASINs maps_to: ["AMZN"] as_of: "2026-08-04" basis: "aggregated · no PII"
Coverage

Demand on a fixed panel

We snapshot the same product panel on each marketplace every day and archive it point-in-time. A stable panel is what makes the rank-to-units mapping and the price and review series comparable through time — the signals are strongest measured on a consistent basket rather than a shifting catalog.

Marketplaces
2
Amazon (US / EU) · MercadoLibre (LatAm)
Panel snapshots
daily
BSR · price · availability · review count
Series delivered
4
units proxy · review velocity · price · assortment
Point-in-time history
multi-yr
reconstructable as-of any past date
Signals

Four reads on brand & marketplace demand

Each signal is an aggregated time series at the marketplace × category level, pre-mapped to the tickers it informs — engineered for demand nowcasting on a fixed panel.

SIGNAL 01

Sales-rank (BSR) trend + units proxy

Daily best-seller-rank snapshots converted, on a fixed panel, into a units-sold proxy via a category rank-to-units mapping. Aggregated, it nowcasts marketplace and brand demand direction ahead of reported growth.

ReadsAMZNMELI
SIGNAL 02

Review-velocity demand proxy

Net new reviews per product per day, a second independent demand read that cross-checks the BSR-based units proxy. Divergence between the two flags rank manipulation or promotion-driven spikes.

ReadsAMZNMELI
SIGNAL 03

Price index

A matched-basket price index across the panel, rebased to 100 — the buy-box and list price trajectory that drives marketplace take-rate and 1P gross margin. Reads promotional cadence and pricing power by category.

ReadsAMZNMELI
SIGNAL 04

Assortment / new-launch

Live count of active listings plus the rate of net new-product launches and discontinuations. Accelerating launches signal seller and brand investment in the marketplace; contraction flags category rotation or share loss.

ReadsAMZNMELI
Ticker Map

Two marketplaces. One panel.

Each marketplace and region is normalized to one schema and mapped to the equity whose GMV and take-rate it drives, so the desk pulls a single blended demand read per name.

AMZNAmazon US1P + 3P · BSR panel
AMZNAmazon EUDE · UK panel read-through
MELIMercadoLibre MXcatalog · rank · price
MELIMercadoLibre BR / ARLatAm read-through
Methodology

Institutional by construction, clean by design

Engineered to pass a fund's data-diligence: point-in-time integrity, transparent aggregation, and honesty about where the units proxy is precise and where it is noisy.

Point-in-time
As-of any past date

Every BSR, price and review-count snapshot is archived with its capture timestamp on a fixed panel. Series reconstruct exactly as they stood — no survivorship from catalog churn, no look-ahead.

Honest signal
BSR→units is noisy

The rank-to-units mapping is a standard industry technique but inherently noisy at the single-SKU level. It is most reliable aggregated over a fixed panel and read as direction and rate of change, not an absolute unit count.

Compliant
No PII, no MNPI

Derived only from publicly observable listing surfaces. No personal data, no reviewer identities, no seller-account records, nothing material and non-public. GDPR-aligned and DDQ-ready.

Example Signal

Amazon US panel · BSR / units demand series

An illustrative slice: the aggregated BSR-derived units proxy for the fixed US panel, indexed, alongside median BSR and the independent review-velocity read that corroborates it.

Illustrative sample · units proxy (base=100) + median BSR + review velocity · US fixed panel · maps to AMZN
MonthMedian BSRUnits proxyRev. velocityMoM
2026-032,140110.41.92+1.4%
2026-042,060112.91.98+2.3%
2026-051,980114.62.03+1.5%
2026-061,910116.12.08+1.3%
2026-071,840118.62.14+2.2%
2026-08*1,805119.72.17+0.9%

How the desk uses it

Nowcast AMZN / MELI marketplace unit demand from panel-level BSR improvement, corroborated by review velocity.
Overlay the price index to separate unit growth from ASP, sizing revenue vs mix.
Watch the units-proxy vs review-velocity spread as a manipulation / promo-distortion check.
* current month is a partial, run-rate estimate · BSR→units read on the fixed panel · daily snapshots

Trade the tickers.
See the demand first.

Request a point-in-time sample — a marketplace × category slice on the fixed panel, with the units-proxy methodology and ticker mapping. We'll send a data dictionary and a backtest walkthrough.

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