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Courses · 11 lessons

News & Catalyst Reading

11 lessons on trading earnings, the Fed, and headlines — where the catalyst creates the opportunity but the chart earns the grade.

Most large stock moves trace back to a catalyst — an earnings beat, a Fed pivot, a fresh guidance cut, an insider cluster. But a good story on a bad chart is still a bad trade. This 11-lesson course teaches you to read catalysts the way the framework does: news creates the opportunity and ranks it, while the technical setup earns the grade. Every lesson ends with a knowledge check, and you get a one-page cheat sheet plus a repeatable pre-market news routine.

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What you'll learn

  • →Read an earnings release and know whether the move that follows is buyable — and why chasing the gap is a trap.
  • →{'Understand exactly how news fits this framework': 'support score is display-and-ranking only, penalty-only (−5), and never changes the letter grade.'}
  • →Trade macro prints (CPI, jobs, FOMC) by reading the surprise — actual versus consensus — instead of the raw number.
  • →Use insider and congress buying as confirmation, accounting for the reporting lag.
  • →Triage any headline with three tests — source quality, staleness, and the priced-in test.
  • →Combine a catalyst with zone placement so the news and the chart agree before you act.
  • →Manage event risk — earnings dates and IV crush — and avoid the seven classic news mistakes.

Lesson outline

  1. 01 Why news moves stocks
    Preview
  2. 02 Catalyst types — what to expect from each
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  3. 03 The anatomy of an earnings gap
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  4. 04 How news fits this framework
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  5. 05 Macro releases — consensus versus actual
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  6. 06 Insider and congress trading signals
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  7. 07 Reading a headline like a trader
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  8. 08 Combining a catalyst with zone placement
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  9. 09 Event risk — earnings dates and IV crush
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  10. 10 Common mistakes with news and catalysts
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  11. 11 Recap and a pre-market news routine
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Instructor

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FAQ

How many lessons are there and do they include quizzes? ▾

Eleven lessons, each ending with a short knowledge check, plus a one-page cheat sheet you can keep beside you.

Do I need to read every earnings release? ▾

No. You learn to read the few that matter in under two minutes, and to let the chart — not the headline — decide whether there's a trade.

Will this teach me to trade on news alone? ▾

No — deliberately. The course shows exactly why technicals decide the grade and news only supports or penalizes, so you never talk yourself into a bad chart on a good story.

Does the course use real chart examples? ▾

Yes — it uses real-data chart illustrations (such as the anatomy of an earnings gap) to teach the setups, alongside worked examples in every lesson.

Is this US-only? ▾

Yes — the framework focuses on US equities, the Fed, and US-relevant macro.

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