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Sourcengine / Octopart part availability & price index

aggregated stock count and average ask price across distributors for a fixed IC basket

Feed detail
Measures
aggregated stock count and average ask price across distributors for a fixed IC basket
Source
octopart.com public search API (limited free tier) or sourcengine.com listings
Access
json-api
Cadence
weeklyupdates roughly weekly
Thesis
Octopart aggregates multiple distributors so a basket-level stock/price index is a broader, harder-to-game read on component tightness than any single distributor
Maps to
broad analog/industrial semis basket
Crowdedness
contested
Tier
tB
Ban-risk
ban:medium
Where this stands

This is a catalogued data feed with a research idea attached, not a validated edge. Being listed here means it has a specific source and a one-sentence causal mechanism mapped to what it should move — it doesn’t mean it has cleared the five-stage validation gate (point-in-time hygiene, out-of-sample holdout, multiple-testing correction, and the portfolio-layer backstop). As of today, every score on this site is prior-only; zero signals in the catalog have been promoted to “measured” status. See the methodology page for the full validation process and current counts.

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