For Business

Trading Strategies

What Is News Trading

News trading is trading the minutes round a scheduled release, the moment a published number reaches the market and the price moves most. This paper shows you the euro on 20 November 2025 from real five-minute bars, with the US jobs report at 15:30 moving 35 pips in five minutes against an ordinary bar's 2.8, the idea as a calendar with a bell, the release candle on the chart, the minute measured against the day, and the economic calendar on your platform that gives the minute in advance.

Difficulty
Beginner
Reading time
5 min
Pages
8
Reviewed by
Saman Rahbar

This paper is locked

Read it in the browser and keep the PDF with Premium, or buy this one paper.

Buy this paper — $1Get Premium

Two hours, and one minute in the middle

News trading is trading the minutes round a scheduled release. Here is one from real five-minute bars: the euro against the dollar on Thursday 20 November 2025, with the US jobs report at 15:30 on the feed's clock. The hour before moved 9 pips — a pip being the fourth decimal place, the smallest step most people count in. The five minutes of the release moved 35, down to 1.14996 and then up to 1.15347, and the hour after moved 45. An ordinary five minutes that day moved 2.8. Those few minutes are the news trader's whole market.

A calendar with a bell

Picture a calendar with a bell. A release is a scheduled minute: the day and the time are published weeks ahead, the 20th at 15:30, and everybody knows when the bell rings. What nobody knows is the number that will be read out when it does, and the number is what moves the price, up if it is better than expected and down if worse, sometimes both within the minute. A news trader trades the minute, not the number, and the minute is the only thing about a release that is certain.

This paper is locked

Read next