Editorial policy
Every figure on MarketMoves can be checked against its source. You can check every measurement on the 45 market pages here against the vendor bars it was computed from, because none of it was written by hand. An explanation of why a price moved stays off the page until a named person has read the source and signed the sentence.
What is generated, and what that means
The per-market statistics and the sentences around them are produced by code from Twelve Data price data. Volatility, average true range, the worst move against you, liquidation distance, hit rates and the replay curves are arithmetic on bars. The prose reporting them is templated and varies with the numbers. Nobody writes each market page by hand, and claiming otherwise would be the easiest lie on the site to tell.
You can recompute a volatility figure from the same bars and show it to be right or wrong, which is why the code is allowed to publish it unread. Nobody can recompute the reason a price moved, so that sentence waits for a person who has read the filing or the report.
Why it moved: four states, one needs a human
The block at the top of a market page reports one of four states, and the state is always visible.
| State | What it means | Who decided |
|---|---|---|
| Catalyst confirmed | A named person read the source, accepted that the event happened, and wrote the sentence that connects it to the move. | A person, on the record, with a timestamp |
| Filing on record, cause unconfirmed | A filing exists and landed in the window. The filing is stated as a fact. The causation is explicitly not asserted. | Code, from SEC EDGAR |
| No confirmed catalyst | The move is larger than normal for that instrument and nothing is on the record to explain it. The absence is reported rather than filled. | Code |
| Quiet | The move is ordinary for that instrument, so no catalyst was sought. | Code |
Headlines covering an event a reviewer has already accepted appear as corroborating sources, marked as such. They never supply the causal sentence, however many of them arrive, because the reviewer's own reading is the only thing on the page that asserts a cause.
Five things MarketMoves refuses to do
- Invent a reason for a price move, or imply one by placing a headline next to a number and leaving you to join them.
- Attribute analysis to a person who did not do it, or invent staff, credentials or first-hand testing.
- Publish a page for a ticker just because the ticker exists. Coverage is 45 instruments, chosen for liquidity and search demand.
- Create a fresh URL every day for every instrument. A permanent analysis page needs a material event and something original to say.
- Show a Moon link for an instrument nobody has verified is on Moon.
Corrections
Errors get fixed and the fix is dated. You can find out how to report one on the corrections page.
Who is responsible
the MarketMoves editorial desk is the reviewer of record. Contact details and the scope of that responsibility are on the authors page.