什么是新闻交易者？

What is a news trader?

News traders are those traders or investors who make decisions based on news announcements. Coverage of breaking news, economic reports and other events can have a temporary impact on price movements of stocks, bonds and other securities. News traders seek to profit by taking advantage of market sentiment before a major news release, as well as trading the market reaction after the news is released.

Key Points

• News traders trade on scheduled announcements with the aim of profiting from short-term fluctuations.
• News traders can also trade important unplanned events that affect the domestic or global economy.
• News traders typically hold positions for very short periods of time because the impact of news tends to fade quickly after it is released.

Understanding News Traders

The adage "Buy the rumor, sell the news" recognizes that rumors can have one effect on security prices, while news can have the opposite effect. Therefore, news traders focus on trading in the short period before or after a news release, when the market is still reacting to the news. These periods are often characterized by high volatility, creating profit opportunities.

News traders primarily try to profit from the timing or possible content of scheduled news announcements. When news is already scheduled, such as an earnings report or a Fed meeting, news trading is more about betting on the likely impact on the announcement's significance. In effect, the Fed attempts to mitigate the impact of its announcements on markets by communicating every major policy decision well in advance, but even these policy signals have become tradable events.

When news surprises everyone, such as a natural disaster or a black swan event, news traders try to position themselves in the hope of profiting. Sometimes this means taking advantage of volatility, or making a judgment call on the immediate directional impact of news on current price trends.

Note: In most cases, a news trader is a type of day trader because they typically open and close positions within the same day.

Tools and Strategies for News Traders

News traders utilize a variety of strategies and focus on market psychology and historical data. Traders may look at historical data, such as past earnings reports, to predict the impact that upcoming news (such as an upcoming earnings report) may have on price. By becoming familiar with a particular market, news traders are able to make an educated guess as to whether a security's price will rise or fall following a news release.

News traders can also set up queries and alerts to collect breaking news and correlate it with price changes on charts. If certain conditions are met, news traders will enter bullish or bearish trades depending on the trading strategy. Since news is timely and usually affects the short term, profit opportunities only exist when the news is fresh.

One strategy commonly used by news traders is called "contrarian trading," which is to trade against the trend when market enthusiasm fades. For example, a stock might open sharply higher in the premarket on a positive earnings announcement. News traders may watch this optimism peak and then short the stock intraday. Although the stock is still up sharply compared to the previous day, traders may have profited from the difference between the day's high and low.

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