Who Gets News Alerts First? And How

[vanzandt]

https://www.google.com.au/?ion=1&espv=2#q=bloomberg terminal cost

Anyway, I think Bloomberg as an analysis tool for the broad market is pretty good. If you need all info available on bonds/stocks/rates etc together with news feeds, it's almost unbeatable IMO.

As mentioned by others, trading the newsflash is difficult to do anyway... so why bother for that reason.

I think back in the old days, people used to bribe the guys at the printing press who saw the A.M. Newspaper first.
That must have been something to play the markets back then.
The more things change, ....the more they stay the same. Or maybe not.

 

[Enginer]

Someone suggested news bots and that was a good idea, but have you considered insider trading?

Maybe it was a clerk at DHS that shorted CXW because they knew what was going to be released or maybe they called a 'friend'. I have wondered how many people in the accounting department of an organization or a marketing department that are aware of sales records, make trades for their own benefit before the information is released.

I bet it happens everyday.

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I did not see the post above before I made mine....same general ideas....he's a smart guy...........

 

[Enginer]

that's what the 9th tee at the golf club is for...