Editorial Standards & Methodology

What we publish

MoveSurge publishes market-moving stories as they happen: global market shocks, central-bank decisions, economic data, earnings, guidance, M&A, filings, broker moves, politics, oil, gold, FX, rates, semiconductors, and news moving U.S. stocks of every size. When reliable price data is available, we attach the measured market reaction to the headline.

Sources & verification

We rely on publicly available information, direct data sources, and live price data from external providers. Material events are screened and classified before publication. Numbers, quotes, and figures are taken from the source data — they are not invented.

For licensing reasons we may not display the names of certain upstream data providers; this does not change our commitment to the accuracy of the figures.

Facts, context, and no trade calls

We state what happened, who said it, what changed, and what the market did. We may explain the market link when the facts support it, but we do not tell users to buy, sell, hold, enter, or exit a trade. We do not give personal investment advice.

Market-reaction methodology

When we attach a price reaction to a headline, we measure the price move at fixed time windows after the headline timestamp (e.g. at 1 and 10 minutes) versus a baseline just before the event, with traded-volume context when it is available and reliable. This is an observation of what moved — not a claim that the headline was the sole cause.

Price data may be delayed, corrected, or unavailable due to exchange hours, liquidity, or corporate actions. We show "unavailable" rather than estimate a price we do not have.

AI & automation

Automation helps us sort, label, shorten, and connect a large flow of news. Analysts set the rules and screen the important events. Numbers and quotes come from the source. Market-reaction figures come from real price data, not from an AI guess.

How an explainer page is built

Our company explainers — the “why is this stock moving” pages — are assembled by an automated editorial system working under rules our analysts set. Because that is unusual for financial writing, here is the actual sequence, so you can judge it rather than take our word for it.

The subject is chosen deterministically, not by a model. Candidates come from our own tape: events that printed a measurable price reaction, events our classifier marked high-importance regardless of price, and dated capital-markets or macro releases. A coverage check then prefers a company we have never explained over one we have covered before. Nothing writes a page because a topic seemed interesting.
The catalyst must be corroborated before anything is drafted. We require at least two independently dated sources inside a fixed recency window. A story we cannot corroborate is held for the next cycle rather than published from the tape alone — there is no exception, because a plausible-sounding summary of undated material is exactly how a stale catalyst gets presented as today’s.
The market reaction is measured, never estimated. We record the price of the instrument at the moment the headline crossed, again one minute later and fifteen minutes later, with traded volume against that instrument’s own normal. These come from market data feeds. No language model produces or adjusts them.
Context comes from our own archive. Every measured reaction that company has printed over the preceding weeks is pulled in, so a page can state what its last earnings print or guidance change actually did to the price rather than characterising it from memory.
The draft is then checked by gates that block publication. These are not warnings. A page failing any of them is not published:

Every external source must carry a date, and that date must sit inside the recency window.
Every percentage and dollar figure in the finished text must already exist either in our own measurement set or attached to a specific dated source. A number appearing in neither is treated as fabricated and the page is refused. This is the most important gate we run.
The tape entry a page describes must resolve to a real recorded event, so a page can never carry another story’s numbers.
The reaction figures must be internally consistent — a stated move has to follow from the recorded price levels.
No investment advice, on any page, with no exemption anywhere in the system.
Raw upstream feed names are never shown to readers.

Human review

A CFA charterholder on our editorial team, with 25 years of experience in financial markets, reviews each explainer as soon as it publishes and is responsible for the final edit. We describe that plainly rather than implying a pre-publication sign-off: pages reach the site once they clear the automated gates above, and the review follows immediately, with the reviewer able to correct, re-edit or withdraw a page. Each page records who reviewed it and when, and we keep that record honest about its own strength — a review logged article-by-article in our console is stored separately from a standing-policy attestation applied across the back catalogue, because the two are different evidence and should not be presented as the same thing.

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What automation is not allowed to do

It does not source prices, and it cannot introduce a figure of its own. It does not decide what is true: every number has to trace back either to something we measured or to a dated source we can show you. It does not tell you what to buy or sell. And it does not write under a human byline — these pages are attributed to the desk as an organisation, because inventing a reporter to sign machine-assembled work would misrepresent who stands behind it.

When we get it wrong

Automated production makes a single defect repeat across many pages, so we audit for that and correct in bulk. A worked example: on 22 August 2026 we found that the helper computing a stock’s session move was measuring against the wrong prior close, putting an incorrect percentage on pages published over the preceding three weeks. We re-derived every affected figure from the daily closing series and corrected 53 published pages, including several where the direction itself had been wrong. Where a page’s wording could not be corrected mechanically without risking a new error, we fixed it by hand rather than guess. If you find something wrong, email [email protected].

Corrections & updates

We correct factual errors when we find them. Headlines sometimes change when a source updates its information (for example, initial results followed by later detail). If you spot an error, email us at [email protected] and we will review it.

Independence & who we are

MoveSurge is an independent market-intelligence service run by seven market specialists, with team experience dating back to 2006 and operations in Zurich. We are not a broker, investment adviser, or execution venue, and we do not publish paid content disguised as news. See our Terms & Disclaimer and About page.