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How to read market news with our model
How headlines are matched to tickers, scored for tone, and turned into a full stock analysis.
Headlines are not the whole story
A single headline can move a stock for an hour and still be irrelevant a week later. Other headlines look boring and quietly matter for months. The goal of our news pipeline is not to trade every story. It is to notice when a story is strong enough to deserve a full re-check of the stock.
What happens behind the scenes
- Headlines are collected through the trading day from market feeds, press wires and material SEC filings.
- Each headline is matched to the company it is actually about (not every ticker that happens to be mentioned).
- FinBERT scores the tone as positive, negative or neutral.
- The strongest candidates get the same multi-factor analysis used on regular stock pages.
- We publish a plain-English note: what the news said, what the broader analysis says, and whether they agree.
When news and analysis disagree
Sometimes the headline is upbeat and the composite still leans negative — for example after a bounce in a damaged trend, or when valuation and structure remain weak. Sometimes the headline is ugly and the broader picture still looks constructive. Those disagreements are often the most educational part of the page: they show why “good news” is not automatically a buy.
How you can practise
Open a news strategy from today. Cover the verdict with your hand. Read only the headline and guess the tone. Then uncover the FinBERT score and the full verdict. Keep a short log of when you agreed and when you missed the broader context. That habit builds judgement faster than scrolling headlines alone.
For information and education only. Not investment advice. Ratings are produced by an automated model, can be wrong, and may be out of date. Do your own research; you can lose money investing.