He calls these "IOI's" — Indicators of Interest.
One is that some dark pools give off signals, or indicators of interest, about positions that others can exploit.
Fizziology, which wades through tweets, likes and similar indicators of interest to deliver its findings, found that 22 Jump Street was the summer's most "buzzed about" movie, while X-Men: Days of Future Past was considered the best for word of mouth.
There are five kinds of subjective indicators of interest: health conditions, interior decoration of passenger coaches, information services, seat comfort, and catering services.
The process indicators of interest are the degree to which children are exposed to activities specified in the curricula of interest.
Personality traits such as creativity, innovativeness, leadership capability, independence, non-conformity, risk taking or fear of failure, and need for achievement, are often cited to be indicators of interest in entrepreneurial activities (McClelland, 1961; Krueger, 2009; Sorenson and Chang, 2006; Saraf and Bannerjee, 2013; Lukeš and Zouhar, 2013).
A change in level would indicate an immediate effect of the intervention on the outcome indicator of interest, while a change in trend (or slope) of the regression line would point to a longer, more sustained response for the indicator measured.
Mr. Greenspan's favorite indicator of interest rates is not the yield on government securities, but the Standard & Poor's BBB corporate debt rate, adjusted for inflation expectations.
That average has a reputation as a leading indicator of interest rates, although its recent moves have tended to match, rather than lead, the bond market.
The sale serves as an early indicator of interest in a vintage, as well as broader gauge of the state of the Burgundy wine economy.
