Everyone talks about getting news fast.
In practice, I’ve found the bigger issue is noise.
Most “breaking news”:
doesn’t move price
gets misinterpreted
or is already priced in
What actually helps decision-making is knowing:
which events historically move stocks
which filings are routine vs exceptional
and which updates change risk, not just sentiment
Being selective beats being early most of the time.
How do you all separate signal from noise?
Speed matters less than filtering when it comes to market news
byu/Eliav_1991 ininvesting
Posted by Eliav_1991
2 Comments
True getting the news fast may get you 10% maybe 50% stock movement but getting the trends right gets you 1,000% maybe 10,000%.
But there’s no tried and true formula for getting the trends right. Hundreds of books have been written about that.
That’s because stocks are more like poker hands then an analytical game like chess, for stocks you never know what card is going to come up next. All you can do is play the odds with the cards your dealt.
Realistically, a retail investor cannot honestly compete with a high frequency trading firm / hedge funds on news for most securities. If there are opportunities for trading on speed, it’s going to be on the small cap side of things.