Beginners are most exposed to reacting to a headline. This module builds the filter that stops that, and teaches News Wire as it is meant to be used: a data source you consult, not a feed you scroll.
Not all news moves prices. Scheduled events, such as company results, central bank decisions and economic data, arrive at a published time, and prices tend to move around that time in ways that can be prepared for. Unscheduled events, the breaking kind, move prices without warning and are the hardest to trade around safely.
Tone can be measured. When the wire reads the day's sentiment across many sources, treat it the way you treat the forecast: a direction and a degree of confidence, never a certainty, and never a personal opinion.
The discipline that separates a beginner from an experienced reader is not reading more. It is reading less, from a source already filtered to what you follow, at a time you choose.
Open News Wire (F10) and read the day's wire for your home base market.
> open News Wire (F10) on the desk →Find one item that was scheduled, a result or a decision with a known time, and one that was not.
> still on News Wire (F10)Ask yourself, before you look at anything else, which of the two you could have planned for.
> on this pageWhat is the difference between a scheduled and an unscheduled market event, and why does it change how you react?