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How news moves markets, explained in order. Start with the first two; the rest stand on their own.
Then watch it play out on the Markets pages.
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How NewsPips reads the news, and how to trade an event without guessing.
How to trade news events: a practical guide
A practical framework for trading scheduled and breaking news: preparation, timing, execution, and the mistakes that cost traders the most.
6 min read
How a NewsPips reading is made
How NewsPips turns hundreds of sources into one directional bias per market, why no confidence number sits beside it, and what a reading is not.
Why no confidence number sits beside a reading, and what the expected range does and does not say.
6 min read
The ideas
Forecast, actual, surprise — the vocabulary every release is reported in.
The big releases
What CPI, the FOMC and payrolls actually do to a price, release by release.
How to trade Non-Farm Payrolls (NFP)
What the jobs report contains, when it lands, why it moves the dollar and gold, what traders watch in the week before, and how they handle the volatility.
7 min read
How to trade CPI and inflation reports
What CPI is, headline vs core, why a hotter print tends to lift the dollar through the rate channel, and how traders prepare for inflation-day swings.
6 min read
How to trade the FOMC and Fed rate decisions
The FOMC statement, dot plot and press conference — why the tone often moves markets more than the rate itself, and how traders handle the volatility.
8 min read
What moves each market
The drivers behind gold, the majors, oil and bitcoin.
- XAUUSDWhat moves gold? XAUUSD's five drivers5 min read
- EURUSDWhat moves EURUSD? A trader's guide6 min read
- DXYWhat moves the US dollar? The DXY's key drivers6 min read
- USDJPYWhat moves USD/JPY? Yields, the BoJ and risk8 min read
- GBPUSDWhat moves GBP/USD (cable)?7 min read
- BRENT WTIWhat drives oil prices? WTI vs Brent8 min read
- BTCUSDWhat moves bitcoin (BTC/USD)?8 min read