Trading The News
Emini Futures - Trading The News
Trading news driven economic events is an art unto itself. Notice I call it an Art, not a Science. Markets can rally on what appears to be a dismal economic report and they can also drop precipitously on what to the ordinary man appears to be perfectly good news. This is not to say that markets don't also run up on bullish news and decline on dour news... they do. That's what makes it more art than science.
The news itself is secondary to how market participants react to the news. A trader who specializes in trading economic news events is watching the crowd just as closely as he is watching the numbers, perhaps even closer. Interest rates, unemployment numbers, or the central bank's policy shifts are just three examples of news driven events that can create extremely volatile trading environments.