Trading the news

tolland · Feb 8, 2009

Hi trade2win collective,

I was wondering whether anyone can suggest what are the best sources for breaking trade-able information. One of the sources I have been working with is the SEC filings by RSS - Latest EDGAR Filings
which is exactly the sort of thing I am after.

However I can't seem to find anything similar for the LSE, at least not for free.

Also, I was looking for something similar for analysts recommendations, but I guess it is less likely that there is a good aggregated feed for those types of updates.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Tom

ceydababy · Feb 8, 2009

try Ransquawk - Real Time Analysis & News Limited - RANsquawk. Freebie version has 30 second delay. But well worth a look and it doesn't cost you a red cent !

arabianights · Feb 8, 2009

how much are you prepared to spend?

tolland · Feb 8, 2009

ceydababy said:
try Ransquawk - Real Time Analysis & News Limited - RANsquawk. Freebie version has 30 second delay. But well worth a look and it doesn't cost you a red cent !

yeah, I use that all the time when working on a trade that is announcement based. Though I am looking for newsfeeds that text/html/RSS based so I can use them to generate signals.

Tom

tolland · Feb 8, 2009

arabianights said:
how much are you prepared to spend?

Well it depends on whether I have to do much work to integrate it.

The lse site has a page that seems to show regulatory announcements and the AFX feed, but I can't see a RSS link, and I'm not sure of they are real time/or what the time delay is.

this feed would be good, because I can just pull the data out of the provided fields rather than having to parse out which stock it applies to;
AFX News Ltd. London : Financial News Products.

however I think this would be expensive.

arabianights · Feb 8, 2009

You can certainly integrate it using Reuters and DDE, costs about £1500/month. Completely object oriented so you could pull everything you want out of it in whatever format.

tolland · Feb 8, 2009

arabianights said:
You can certainly integrate it using Reuters and DDE, costs about £1500/month. Completely object oriented so you could pull everything you want out of it in whatever format.

for that sort of cash, I could hire someone to read and tag the articles with ticker, and an indication of the sentiment towards the target - well getting towards that amount anyway.
Tom

tolland · Feb 8, 2009

well this is annoying, these guys have almost exactly what I need;
Stock market news: RNS, PR NewsWire, Hugin, Business Wire
but the RSS feed link is broken/or hanging at the moment- http://172.30.3.26/xml/page-rss.xml?in_page_id=53636
though it is 15 minutes delayed, its good for what I am doing.

Digital look have some interesting broker view summaries;
Broker Views | Investing | Digital Look
but alas no RSS. Does any other company provide such a beast?

adfvn have a Dow Jones newswire feed, but no RSS;
ADVFN - ADVFN

lse have the data, but its not in RSS;
London Stock Exchange - Market news

tolland · Feb 8, 2009

woo, if someone could setup a service to provide this lot;
Broker Views | Investing | Digital Look
in RSS - I would definitely subscribe!

tolland · Feb 8, 2009

Actually, something occurred to me... Do any of the dealer platform provide real time NEWS updates from reuters, AFX, RNS etc? igmarkets seem to have a news section, but it looks pretty rubbish

Thanks,

Tom

maxima · May 2, 2009

tolland said:
well this is annoying, these guys have almost exactly what I need;

I thought this is the norm in the old Europe.

On serious note - how one can have push RSS? Can you please give a hint? All RSS readers I saw are pull. Is it actually possible?

maxima · May 2, 2009

ceydababy said:
Ransquawk ... Freebie version has 30 second delay. But well worth a look and it doesn't cost you a red cent !

The website says 2 min delay...

tolland · May 2, 2009

maxima said:
I thought this is the norm in the old Europe.

On serious note - how one can have push RSS? Can you please give a hint? All RSS readers I saw are pull. Is it actually possible?

Well, with my IT hat on... RSS works over http, and http is a client server model, where the client connects to the server and requests ("pulls") data. Its possible to emulate server push models with AJAX over http, but as far as I am aware there are no AJAXified RSS implementations.

Email notifications on keywords are a push model, and pretty much what google news does, however on the back-end all google is doing is polling the RSS or html feed for news sites every X minutes, and generating emails based on that.

I use a tool called RSSowl with the update feeds option set to 5 minutes, but the system I am working on polls the feeds as often as it can, about once every 15 seconds in a loop and email me the signals based on that.

KillPhil08 · May 2, 2009

maxima said:
The website says 2 min delay...

They updated it a few weeks ago...

N Rothschild · May 2, 2009

try Trade The News - Live Audio Breaking News Analysis and Futures Calls

Black Swan · May 3, 2009

KillPhil08 said:
They updated it a few weeks ago...

my free IG feed from Ransqwark went all weird a couple of weeks back, havn't used it since. appears you have to cough up for it ...boo...

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