Practical guide

Monitor market news with source discipline

Monitor instruments, companies, and named data series directly. Separate observed change from explanation, group commentary by assumption, and retain a dissenting view only when it uses different evidence.[1][2]

Why this gets difficult

Market monitoring can become narrative chasing: each price move attracts a confident explanation, while data revisions, filing details, and competing assumptions receive less attention.[1][2]

A practical way through

  1. Define the instruments, issuers, indicators, and thesis questions in scope.[1][2]
  2. Capture filings, releases, and official data with period and revision status.[1][2]
  3. Record price movement separately from causal interpretation.[1][2]
  4. Tag selected analysis by the thesis assumption it confirms or challenges.[1][2]

An example

The situation: A sector moves after a data release and five notes offer different immediate explanations.[1][2]

What changes: The move and release remain facts, explanations are grouped by rate, demand, and positioning assumptions.[1][2]

What you get: The reader sees what changed and what evidence could distinguish the stories.[1][2]

What to watch for

  • Public summaries cannot establish short-term market causality.[1][2]
  • Prices, estimates, and official series can change after the briefing window.[1][2]

Sources worth keeping

  • Official data and issuer filings.[1][2]
  • Market sources that identify instrument, period, and method.[1][2]
  • Analysts who state assumptions and disconfirming evidence.[1][2]

How Scottie helps

Scottie can rank selected filings, data releases, and commentary against monitored market questions while preserving facts, interpretations, and source links separately.[3]

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