Asset price is something that is heavily influenced by the public perception of how a particular asset is going to perform. If people think that an asset is going to drop in value, they might start selling it actively to avoid or minimize losses, driving the price down and thus turning their perception into reality. On the other hand, if people think that it’s just going to be a temporary dip, they might not only hold on to what they have, but also buy said asset on the low in anticipation of the price going back up. If this behavior is widespread enough, these purchases may drive the price up past the original point, making those who bought profit, and leaving those who didn’t wishing they invested. These are just a few simple examples.
The public-whim nature of trading means that a successful trader needs a reliable way to estimate the public sentiment towards the assets they are working with—be it stocks, derivatives, fiat, or cryptocurrencies. The good thing is that this sentiment is not formed in a vacuum of a person’s own thoughts: it is largely shaped by the news, because that is how people learn of developments around the world that can affect the market.
Long-term investors, however, might not care that much about public sentiment: over long enough periods, in many cases, the sentiment-driven price fluctuation averages out. But most importantly, these fluctuations are often overshadowed by market trends or the company’s success or failure, which contribute to asset growth or decline.
This doesn’t mean that investors do not need information – in fact, the research required to pick an asset is substantial. Moreover, even though daily volatility does not matter for investors for the most part, big pivots and important deals still do: things like policy changes, international trade deals, and business partnerships can affect the entire course of assets.
The Importance of News Monitoring
News actively shapes what people think about companies and currencies – in effect driving the asset prices up and down. This means that day traders can gain a wealth of information by following the news. Simply reading the news daily may not be enough; however, with short-term trades, timing is of utmost importance. If breaking news comes out reporting on an asset positively, it may cause a buying frenzy, slingshotting the price to the moon. Learning about this development among the first means that a trader can capitalize on this, buying before the price rises and selling on the high.
Investors, too, benefit greatly from news: outlets report on government policies and business actions, enabling deeper research and covering developments that may affect assets in the long run. When reviewed over time, news can provide insight into fundamentals, help spot macroeconomic trends or technological shifts, and be used to monitor events that could jeopardize investment portfolios.
Why is news monitoring essential for day traders and investors, and how does the ReadPartner media intelligence platform make it easy to stay informed? While news speed is critical for day trading, it’s less important for long-term investing. What truly matters is consistency over time — investors look for patterns that signal structural changes, economic shifts, or industry trends.
In both cases, manual consumption of news can be a difficult task. Trying to react first, not knowing when or where something is going to happen, or covering thousands of articles in an attempt to monitor market changes and risk can take entire teams working around the clock to be effective. Markets move constantly, and valuable information can appear in any outlet at any time.
This is why many professionals turn to news monitoring software: it automates collecting relevant news and provides real-time alerts for significant events, freeing up a lot of time for trading or investment teams, and allowing solo specialists to compete.
ReadPartner’s key features:
- Real-time media monitoring
- Custom keyword tracking
- Sectioned news collections
- Advanced news and source filters
- AI-powered sentiment analysis
- Trend analysis dashboard
- Email alerts
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That said, ReadPartner is not the only monitoring tool. Traders and investors often start with more general solutions, while some may use advanced enterprise-level software for maximum control.
Some alternatives include:
- Google Alerts – free and simple, but lacks depth and advanced analytics.
- Feedly – an RSS reader with a free plan good for organizing sources, but not ideal for tracking sentiment or trends.
- Bloomberg Terminal – extremely powerful, but costs thousands per month; overkill for most.
Compared to alternatives, ReadPartner provides a balanced solution: it offers full-spectrum and versatile news monitoring with advanced analysis features that free tools lack, and at the same time it is far more accessible than enterprise-grade systems.
Traders vs Investors: How ReadPartner Supports Both Trading Formats
Even though both trading styles use news to gather information, the way traders and investors use news monitoring is quite different. Day traders value speed incredibly high, as they use news to react fast, estimate the public sentiment, and time their entries and exits. Long-term investors, on the other hand, prefer aggregated views and trend evolution over time.
Traders can use ReadPartner’s Media Monitoring to track high-frequency, fast-reporting outlets that cover sectors affecting the assets they work with. ReadPartner’s news collection algorithms are highly optimized, ensuring news posts are processed and appear on users’ dashboards in near real time. Moreover, all news posts are automatically analyzed by ReadPartner’s AI model, tagging each post with sentiment – positive, neutral, negative – and popularity, showing if the popularity of this topic is rising or falling. This, in turn, helps traders quickly estimate the context and the effect it is going to have on the public without going in-depth and reading the entire article.
Investors may use Media Monitoring’s keyword tracking features, where news is collected not from specific outlets, but based on keywords they provide from across all available outlets. This allows investors to create an all-encompassing picture of the areas they monitor, while filtering out all the publications that are not relevant to their investments. On top of this, investors can get great value out of Email Alerts, which deliver the latest development summaries regularly, making sure investors stay consistently updated at all times.
Another useful feature for both traders and investors is ReadPartner’s
1. Signing up
The first step is to
2. Creating a collection
Once you complete the onboarding flow, you will be able to create your first news collection:
Media Monitoring supports different types of collections. We are going to focus on Source Finder and Google News as the most relevant to traders and investors.
- Source Finder lets you monitor specific media sources.
- Google News lets you monitor custom keywords, collecting all the news that mentions them.
For Source Finder, the sources are organized into categories for easier navigation. Browse them or use the search bar at the top to find the sources you need.
Once you have added what you require, click “Create collection” at the bottom.
For Google News, you need to enter the keywords you wish to monitor as a comma-separated list, such as shown below:
Once you click create collection, it will appear in your sidebar bar and the platform will start collecting news according to the sources or keywords you specified.
3. Utilizing Trend Analysis
The Trend Analysis feature comes with pre-built collections for popular topics, such as business, markets, government, infrastructure, and others, allowing users to quickly understand general trends in the areas of their interest. Trend Analysis can also be used with user news collections, providing specific trend data that users can tailor to their needs.
Investors can set the Trend Analysis to long periods, for example, 45 days, to see the general trends. This is what Trend Analysis looks like:
Here I can see that in the Markets category, keywords like NASDAQ, NYSE, Earnings, and CEO have been consistently increasing in popularity over the last 45 days, while keywords like investors, stocks, tariffs, and bullish exhibit relatively steady behaviour. This potentially means that the market attention is narrowing towards company leadership and business fundamentals, rather than broad investor sentiment and macroeconomic themes. To further explore this and understand if this attention is positive or negative, I can utilize the Top News window on the bottom right, which displays the top news contributing to the popularity of each keyword. Each headline can be clicked to read the full original news post.
Traders, however, would want to analyze shorter periods to spot big spikes in attention. For example, I can set the period to 7 days and see what is happening in the infrastructure category:
Here, I can see that the Turbines keyword has had a recent major spike. Exploring further with the Top News window, I can see that VSB Group, a major renewable energy supplier in Europe has secured approval to repower a windfarm, increasing its power output fivefold. Even though VSB Group is not a publicly traded company, this can be a potential signal that the wind energy industry might be getting fresh attention, with their public suppliers benefitting from this, and their competition seeing increased volume or price action. Moreover, it is possible to see speculative buying from other traders in response to the headline, signifying upcoming volatility.
News trends, of course, are not enough on their own to make an informed decision, their value is in identifying places of opportunity quickly, but further investigation is required.
Conclusion
Both fast-moving day traders and research-heavy investors need to stay informed.
