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News Trading Strategies
Online Trading Strategies
Intermediate
10 min

News trading is a strategy that seeks to take advantage of opportunities that arise in the markets when relevant economic data and information hit the headlines. In any trading session, economic news and data are one of the major triggers of volatility or notable price changes.
This means that news trading provides regular trading opportunities, but these opportunities are not without their risks. News trading is essentially event-driven, and this trading style has some differences from the regular technical and fundamental trading methods.
In technical analysis, the belief is that past price action will influence future price behaviour, with the assumption being that all essential information about the value of an asset is reflected in its current price.
Technical traders watch the price charts and take trades depending on trends, chart patterns, and mathematical indicators. In contrast, news traders only depend on the signals that will be generated in the market when a trigger event occurs.
On the other hand, fundamental analysis involves assessing all underlying economic, social and political factors that impact the value of a particular asset. News trading is sometimes considered a basic subset of fundamental analysis, but it has its differentiating features.
Regular fundamental analysis considers a broader set of information to derive a fair value of an underlying asset, but news trading only takes into account a specific event. Regular fundamental analysis also takes a long-term view and seldom changes its outlook, whereas news trading is very short-term, and its impact/outlook can change very quickly