How do you keep track of breaking news for your portfolio or watchlists? Google, through your broker, some app... this forum?
I read Charts at worst. Never read news ... Aka "Narrative Fallcies". If you read Hayek you know journalists have no clue. Otherwise they wouldn't be writing craps but retired long ago.
The only "news" i pay attention to are economic data reports and they don't figure into my signals...other than I will not hold a position into a Fed rate announcement.
Octopod, I should qualify my statement. I day trade futures, if I traded stocks, I would not hold into earnings announcements. For a portfolio of stock holdings, I would parse financial statements and listen to and interpret conference calls.
I now read news before I start trading on FX. I am bilingual so I read newspapers in both languages to get some ideas of current sentiment to certain currencies, and when I look at the chart during European session and my indicators confirm what news articles/and or technical analysts say, I get more confidence. I think markets are driven by the overall market sentiment(psychology) so I need to hear what markets are saying before I start trading. I often google news to certain currencies (as its faster).
%% I like to study price data; IBD newspaper, investors.com, WSJ sometimes, radio news. I , as you noted google sometimes specific.....
It's all about how a market reacts to the news, the news itself being usually not that important, just basically whether it's good news or bad news. Stay tuned.
read the news, find which one is clearly bought to push to act in the certain way. Especially when you see a lot of such news on the regular basis, maybe it worth considering playing opposite direction
Bad news comes out, the market rallies. Believe the market. Recently Sp rallied hard in the midst of Brexit chaos, to just below recent highs. Strength, strength strength.