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HOW NEWSHEDGE PRO WORKS

News-trade with an edge.

NewsHedge Pro is a high-leverage forex & indices cockpit built around economic news releases like NFP, CPI, FOMC, ECB. It anticipates the outcome of each release using fundamental leading indicators (never charts), then helps you build a position before the print drops.

Forecasts come from Claude Sonnet 4.5 fed with real-time data from BLS, BEA, FRED, Eurostat, ECB SDW, ONS, plus Gemini-grounded web search for indicators with no public API. Every number you see is timestamped with a freshness tag so you know exactly how current the signal is.

1. How the AI anticipates
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For each upcoming event (e.g. NFP), the system looks up its leading indicators — other releases or market data that historically predict the outcome (ADP, Jobless Claims, JOLTS, Wage Growth, etc. for NFP).
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Each leading indicator is fetched from a deterministic public API (BLS, FRED, ONS, ECB, Eurostat, DBnomics) and tagged with a freshness label: FRESH RECENT STALE OUTDATED.
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Every API value is then cross-checked against Gemini-grounded Google Search. If Gemini finds a newer reading on a reputable source (ISM, Reuters, TradingEconomics, Bloomberg…), the fresher value wins — that's the BOOSTED chip.
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For indicators with no public API (ISM Prices Paid sub-index, Challenger Job Cuts, ISM Services Employment, German Ifo), Gemini fetches them directly with citation URLs you can verify.
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All hydrated numbers — typically 4–10 per event — are sent to Claude Sonnet 4.5 along with macro context (Fed funds, 10Y yields, market state) and the latest news headlines. Claude returns a direction call, probabilities, primary trade pair, and concise reasoning.

The AI is intentionally blind to chart patterns, candlesticks, RSI, Fibonacci, etc. The edge comes from quantitative fundamentals, not technical post-rationalization.

2. Anticipation Panel — Claude's forecast

This is the centerpiece. After you select an event from the calendar, this panel shows Claude's analysis:

  • Direction — BEAT / MISS / INLINE (or HAWKISH / DOVISH for central bank decisions).
  • Probability bars — Claude's confidence split across the three outcomes.
  • Confidence % — how sure Claude is overall. Combine with Conviction (below).
  • Reasoning — the actual chain-of-thought, citing each leading indicator and what it implies. Read this before sizing up.

Forecasts are cached per event. Hit the regenerate button if data has refreshed.

3. Indicator Confluence Score

A faster, model-free sanity check that aggregates how many of the leading indicators agree on direction. Useful as a second opinion on Claude.

  • HIGH MEDIUM LOW NONE conviction — based on dominance % and contributing count.
  • ▲ BULLISH / ▼ BEARISH / ◆ NEUTRAL direction — net weighted bias.
  • Polarity-aware: knows that higher Jobless Claims is bearish for NFP, but higher PPI is bullish for CPI. Doesn't blindly assume "beat = up".
  • Freshness-weighted: FRESH counts 1.0, RECENT 0.7, STALE 0.3, OUTDATED 0.1 — stale signals don't drown out fresh ones.
  • Click "SHOW PER-INDICATOR BREAKDOWN" to see exactly which indicators voted which way.
4. Economic Calendar

Lists all upcoming high-impact releases for the next 7–60 days. Currently tracks 13 event types: NFP, CPI, Core PCE, PPI, Retail Sales, FOMC, ECB, BoE, GDP, ISM Manufacturing, ISM Services, ADP, JOLTS.

Click any event to load it into the cockpit — that's where Anticipation, Confluence, Risk Calculator and Hedge Builder will refocus.

FOMC, ECB, BoE meeting dates are scraped live from the central banks' own websites. Other releases follow real BLS/BEA/ONS publishing schedules.

5. Risk Calculator + Hedge Builder

Once you have a forecast, plan the trade in two steps:

  • Risk Calculator — input your account size, leverage, % risk per trade. It computes the position size for the chosen pair using the actual current live pip value (so JPY pairs are correctly scaled vs majors).
  • Hedge Builder — for high-impact events you may want to straddle: open a long + short on different pairs so you capture the move regardless of direction. The hedge engine sizes both legs based on the event's Expected Pip Range (computed from a rolling-σ envelope of real historical reactions).
  • Expected Pips Panel — shows the 1σ historical move per pair for the event. Realistic, not made up — pulled from past actual prints in the FF archive + yfinance/AV historical bars.
6. Data Health Panel

Top-right corner button (DATA HEALTH). Opens a modal listing every quantitative data source feeding the system — 19 indicators total, each with its latest value, source URL, freshness tag, and KIND (API or GEMINI).

FORCE REFRESH button wipes the 12h Gemini cache and re-probes every source. Use this if you want to re-check accuracy against very latest releases.

The BOOSTED chip means Gemini found a fresher reading than the API; the API alternate is shown underneath so you can see both.

7. News Feeds + Sentiment Shift

The system pulls live headlines from central-bank RSS, InvestingLive general feed, and Alpha Vantage NEWS_SENTIMENT — each tagged with positive / negative / neutral and a per-headline age.

Sentiment Shift Bar at the top shows whether recent central-bank communication has tilted more hawkish or dovish vs the prior week. Useful for catching narrative shifts before they're priced in.

8. Historical Reactions

For each event, the system overlays the past 5–10 release reactions on a chart: surprise size (actual minus consensus) vs. realized 5-min move on the primary pair. Helps you calibrate expectations — e.g. a +50K NFP surprise has historically moved EURUSD ~30 pips.

9. Calibration Leaderboard

Tracks Claude's actual hit rate over time. After each event prints, the system records whether Claude's direction call was correct and how it scored vs the realized 5-minute move. Builds trust slowly — don't size up purely on the AI's confidence until you've seen 10+ green calls.

10. Suggested workflow
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Open the cockpit. Look at the calendar — pick the next high-impact event you want to trade.
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Check the Data Health panel — make sure all sources are FRESH/RECENT/CURRENT. If anything is OUTDATED, hit FORCE REFRESH.
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Read the Anticipation Panel reasoning carefully. Don't trust a number — trust the chain-of-thought.
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Cross-check with the Confluence Score. If Claude says BEAT but confluence says BEARISH, that's a yellow flag — the indicators aren't agreeing.
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Look at Historical Reactions for the same event to calibrate how big the move could be.
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Use the Risk Calculator to size your position to a fixed % risk (e.g. 1% of account).
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If conviction is HIGH and the event is high-impact (FOMC, NFP, CPI), consider a Hedge on a less-correlated pair.
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After the print, watch the Calibration Leaderboard update. Refine your trust in the AI over time.
11. Limitations & honest disclosures

• The system is information advantage, not a guarantee. Markets can move on tape-bombs, liquidity gaps, geopolitical surprises that no leading indicator predicts.

• Gemini-grounded values come from web search — occasionally a source may publish an error that the system propagates. Always sanity-check against the source URL shown in the Data Health panel.

• High-leverage trading carries significant risk. The Risk Calculator helps you size properly but doesn't remove drawdown risk on a single bad print.

• The AI is fundamentals-only. If you trade purely on charts, this tool won't add the value you expect — it's designed to complement chart-based entries with a quantitative pre-news bias.

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