How news trading works on TradeTidings
News trading means acting on a story while it is still fresh: an earnings report, a deal, a regulatory change, a commodity move. The hard part is rarely finding the headline. It is working out which stocks it actually touches, how much, and for how long. That is the specific problem this page explains how we solve.
Every story becomes a rated impact
We read the business news in each market we cover and write our own original analysis for the stories that clear a real bar: a genuine, traceable economic channel to a listed company, not a generic mood piece about the market as a whole. Four things get decided for every affected stock.
Direct or indirect
Direct means the company is named in the story. Indirect means it is reached through a commodity, a rate, an exchange rate, or a regulation, without being named.
Direction
Positive, neutral, or negative for that company's business and exposure. Never a price call, just which way the news leans.
Influence
How material the story is to that company specifically, low, medium, or high, calibrated to the company, not to how dramatic the headline reads.
Longevity
Whether the effect looks like a short, passing move or a longer, structural one. A loud story can still be short-lived, and a quiet one can be lasting.
Built across four markets
Each market gets its own newsfeed, its own sector breakdown, and coverage tuned to the companies actually listed there, so a story is never mapped to a stock it has nothing to do with.
Follow the stocks you actually trade
Build a watchlist of the stocks and sectors you care about and get notified when the sentiment on them shifts, instead of scanning a firehose of alerts for the handful that matter. A free account is enough to start a watchlist; if you want the deeper reading habits that go with it, our guide on using alerts without overreacting covers that in practice.
Frequently asked
- How does TradeTidings decide which stocks a story affects?
- Every story is read on its own. If the company is named in the news, that is a direct impact. If the story moves a commodity, an exchange rate, an interest rate, or a regulation that in turn affects a company without naming it, that is an indirect impact, tagged with the specific driver behind it.
- What does the influence rating actually mean?
- Influence is how material the story is to that specific company's earnings or value, not how big the headline sounds. A story can be high influence for the company at the center of it and low influence for one it only grazes through an indirect channel.
- What does longevity mean?
- Whether the effect is likely to be short (a passing, one-off move) or long (a structural change to the business). A short-lived indirect ripple and a long-term direct hit can come from stories that read as equally dramatic in the headline.
- Does TradeTidings ever recommend buying or selling a stock?
- No. Every rating describes news sentiment and exposure, never a price target or a buy, sell, or hold call. The output is context for your own decision, not a signal to act on automatically.
- How is this different from a general market news feed?
- A news feed shows you headlines. TradeTidings reads each one, works out which listed companies it actually touches and how, and rates the exposure, so you get the analysis instead of having to piece it together across sources yourself.
Read the guides
If you want the underlying trading approach, not just how our analysis works, our news trading guides cover the framework, earnings season, and how to read direct versus indirect news in practice.
See today's news trading picture
Pick a market and see which stocks the day's news is actually moving.