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

Liquidity During Major Events

A structured examination of how market liquidity behaves around scheduled and unscheduled events, and how traders design systematic, repeatable processes that account for spreads, depth, and execution risk during volatile news windows. The article focuses on definitions, logic, risk management, and a high-level operational example.

12 min read
Intermediate

Event Trading Across Asset Classes

A rigorous introduction to event-driven trading applied across equities, rates, FX, commodities, and credit. The article defines the approach, outlines core logic and design choices, discusses risk management, and illustrates workflow examples without recommending trades or signaling exact entries or exits.

12 min read
Intermediate

Position Sizing for Event Trades

A rigorous framework for sizing positions around earnings, macro releases, and other market-moving events. The article explains the logic that links uncertainty, expected distribution of outcomes, liquidity, and risk budgets into a structured, repeatable sizing process for event-driven strategies.

12 min read
Intermediate

Common Event Trading Mistakes

An in-depth guide to frequent errors in event and news-based trading, with a focus on how disciplined, repeatable systems can reduce avoidable risks around scheduled and unscheduled market events.','content':'Event and news-based trading seeks to translate new information into structured decisions. The premise is straightforward: markets reprice wh…

9 min read
Intermediate

Limits of Event-Driven Strategies

Event-driven strategies attempt to translate news and scheduled announcements into systematic trades. This article defines the concept of limits in event-driven trading, explains the underlying logic, and examines practical constraints, risk management, and a high-level operational example without prescribing specific signals or trades.