How we measure speed, impact and accuracy

Speed on a news terminal is easy to claim and hard to prove. We hold ourselves to a single, falsifiable benchmark: we measure delivery against the official timestamp published by the issuing source, the exchange, the statistical agency or the central bank, not against other news vendors.

For a scheduled economic release, that means the clock starts at the moment the issuing agency publishes the figure, and we record how quickly the result reaches the terminal. For a breaking headline, the item is surfaced as it crosses the professional wire. We deliberately do not benchmark ourselves against competing aggregators, because the only reference that cannot be gamed is the primary source itself.

• Pro delivers the feed in real time, with no added delay.
• Basic applies a fixed ~5-minute delay to the same feed, the figures and classification are identical, only the timing differs.

Every headline and calendar event is tagged with an impact rating so you can react to what moves price and ignore what doesn't. The rating is not a popularity score, it is an estimate of how much the item is likely to move the instruments it touches.

What goes into the rating

• Event type. Rate decisions, NFP, CPI, GDP and central-bank communications carry structurally higher impact than second-tier data.
• Surprise versus consensus. A release that lands far from the forecast is weighted up; an in-line print is weighted down.
• Affected assets. We tag the currency pairs, indices, commodities and tickers a headline touches, so impact is assessed per market rather than in the abstract.

Classification combines rules-based logic with AI-assisted tagging, and is kept aligned with how the market actually reacts rather than left to run unchecked. The rating is a decision aid, not a signal to trade.

Calendar figures are drawn from official statistical agencies and cross-checked against the issuing agency before they reach the feed. When the actual number publishes, it is shown against the consensus forecast with a colour-coded beat/miss signal and injected into the live news feed.

• US BLS / BEA, BLS NFP / CPI, BEA GDP / PCE
• Federal Reserve, FOMC calendar
• Eurostat / ECB, ECB statistics calendar
• UK ONS / Bank of England, ONS release calendar

Consensus estimates are revised during the 24 hours before a release to track the poll closest to publication time.

News inside the terminal comes from established financial news agencies, official regulatory feeds (for example SEC EDGAR) and central-bank communications. We keep the full source list confidential for competitive reasons, but the standard is constant: items are surfaced as they are published, not rewritten, and anything that cannot be attributed to a credible source is not shown as fact.

The product and its editorial guides are overseen by the founder, an active trader, rather than generated and left unchecked. When we get something wrong, we correct it and say so.

Page last reviewed: 6 November 2026 · Corrections: [email protected]