Event & News-Based Trading

Trading around earnings, economic releases, and major events.

Part of Trading Strategies

What you will learn

This scope is designed to help you build a practical understanding of Event & News-Based Trading. Lessons move from core definitions to real-world context and common failure points.

Lessons

Reading in order is recommended, but each lesson stands on its own.

12 min read
Intermediate

What Is Event-Driven Trading?

Event-driven trading is a rule-based approach that seeks to exploit how markets reprice around identifiable events such as earnings, economic releases, or policy decisions. This article defines the concept, explains the core logic, outlines risk management, and illustrates how such strategies operate within structured, repeatable trading systems.

12 min read
Intermediate

Trading Earnings Announcements

A structured look at how traders design and evaluate earnings announcement strategies, including event definition, signal construction, risk management, and practical examples without trade recommendations or price targets.','content':'Public companies report earnings on a regular schedule, and these events often alter expectations, volatility, and…

14 min read
Intermediate

Scheduled vs Unscheduled Events

A structured overview of how scheduled and unscheduled events shape event-driven trading, including definitions, core logic, data requirements, risk controls, and high-level operational examples without specific trade signals or recommendations.','content':'Event and news-based trading organizes decision rules around how markets process new informa…

12 min read
Intermediate

Economic Data Releases Explained

A structured overview of trading around scheduled economic data, including how expectations drive price reactions, how strategies can be systematized, and the risk controls that keep such approaches disciplined and repeatable. The discussion covers event calendars, surprise metrics, execution windows, and an illustrative example without trade signa…

12 min read
Intermediate

Market Expectations vs Outcomes

A rigorous overview of the Market Expectations vs Outcomes approach to event and news-based trading, focusing on how expectations are formed, how surprises are measured, and how a structured process and risk controls transform discrete events into a repeatable trading framework.

11 min read
Intermediate

Risk Management for Event Trades

An in-depth explanation of how to design and manage risk for event and news-driven trades, including scenario planning, sizing, execution controls, and post-event protocols within structured, repeatable systems.

10 min read
Intermediate

Volatility Around Events

An in-depth explanation of event-driven volatility strategies, including the core logic, measurement, risk controls, and a high-level example that shows how such approaches fit into structured, repeatable trading systems without prescribing signals or recommendations.

12 min read
Intermediate

Gaps and Event Risk

An in-depth, academically grounded overview of price gaps and event risk, explaining why they occur, how systematic strategies frame them, and the risk controls that make such approaches repeatable and disciplined across markets and regimes. No trade signals or recommendations are provided.

12 min read
Intermediate

Crowded Event Trades Explained

A rigorous explanation of crowded event trades, why they occur, how to identify them, and how they fit into structured, repeatable event-driven trading systems without prescribing specific trades or signals. Focus on expectations, positioning, liquidity, and risk management.

10 min read
Intermediate

News Interpretation Challenges

A structured examination of how markets process news, why interpretation is difficult, and how systematic event-driven strategies account for ambiguity, context, and microstructure risk without relying on discretionary judgment or prediction of outcomes.