How to read the tape
You have the chart. You don't have the why. MoveSurge's job is that gap: when something moves, you know why in seconds — and when news crosses, you know whether the market cared. This page shows how, with real screenshots and real events.
1What you'd actually use it for
Four situations from real trading days. Every card and number below is shown later on this page.
Type the ticker in the search bar. On Aug 7, searching NVDA returned eight dated headlines from the last 45 days — the freshest on top with its measured price reaction — plus a one-line options summary of the day: $21M traded, 88% calls, 137 sweeps. The why, in about ten seconds. Not twenty minutes across eight tabs. Section 13 shows it.
The calendar told you the slot. The print lands the second the actual is out: Act | Est | Prev on one row, with the reaction line under it. On Aug 5, ISM Services missed slightly — futures dipped a few points and recovered. Translation: nobody cared. That answer took five seconds, and it's as valuable as the alerts. Section 7.
Aug 6, after the close: Microchip's numbers land as a structured panel — EPS beat, revenue beat, guidance above street — with the after-hours move attached: +7.6% in the first minute, +10.3% by minute ten. You've read the whole print before the first article was written. Section 6.
Search Hormuz and you get every dated escalation headline with crude's measured reaction each time — like Jun 9, when a Trump post about a downed helicopter sent WTI +1.9% in sixty seconds. Next time that kind of headline crosses, the history is already in front of you. Context, not a forecast. Section 5.
2The workspace
- Live Feed is home. Every event, newest first, streaming.
- Broker Moves and Institutional Research are separate desks (sections 10 and 15).
- Chips cut the tape to Market Reactions, Earnings, M&A — and on desktop, FDA and IPO.
- The bookmark button shows only your watchlist names.
- Small Caps: routine small-company prints are hidden by default. One tap shows them.
- Historical opens any past trading day (Prime).
- Search takes any ticker, company, person, or theme — sections 12 and 13 show the live and research workflows.
3One card, up close
A real card from July 22, 2026 — Alphabet raising its capex guidance. One of the most repriced headlines of that week:
4The reaction line
This is the core of the product. For every eligible headline we attach the real price path of the affected instrument — measured against the price two minutes before publish. Not estimated. Not narrated. For a stock story it's the stock; for macro news it's futures, crude, gold, or FX.
Compare the two windows. On the Alphabet card: down 1.9% in one minute, down 2.3% at ten — the move held and extended. When the 1m print fades by minute ten, the market changed its mind. That difference — knee-jerk vs settled — is the read.
5Trump's posts, direct
MoveSurge carries direct, real-time access to President Trump's Truth Social account. Desks watch it because one post can reprice crude, futures, and gold in seconds. June 9, 2026:
The next post hits the tape in under a second.
Start free6Earnings
Earnings night is fast. The tape structures every report into the same panel so you never parse a press release under pressure. Microchip, August 6, 2026, after the close:
The panel state matters on earnings night: Developing means numbers are still landing, Updated means something changed, Final means the picture is complete. Use the Earnings chip to isolate the lane during the busy weeks.
7Macro numbers
Economic data appears only when the actual number is out. At rest it's one compact row — a dozen prints can land in a single minute:
Tap it and the full print opens:
8FDA news
Biotech moves on trial results, panel votes, and approvals more than on earnings. Rhythm Pharmaceuticals, August 4, 2026:
Market cap counts double here: the same headline is a 4% move on a $7B name and a 40% move on a small one. Names under $2B sit behind the Small Caps toggle.
9Deals
A merger reprices two stocks at once, so deal cards price both sides. August 6, 2026 — a governor moving to intervene in a live utility deal:
10Broker Moves
Rating changes land in batches — one firm updating a whole coverage list before the open. The tape compresses the batch into one card. Morgan Stanley, July 21, 2026:
11Market Pulse
Headlines tell you what just crossed. Every couple of hours the desk publishes a Market Pulse note that ties the session together:
12Real-time search: triage as you type
Start typing any ticker, company, person, source, or market theme. After the second character, the panel updates with up to eight of the newest matching events from the last 45 days — without taking you away from the live tape.
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1Type the subject. Ticker, company, person, source, or theme; results refresh as you type.
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2High Impact. Only events assessed High or Critical.
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3With Reaction. Only results with a qualifying measured move attached.
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4The compact receipt. Instrument, direction, and signed move. Open the result for the full price path.
- All — broad recall. Use it when you want every recent matching headline, including routine posts and events with no measurable reaction.
- High Impact — importance first. It keeps only events whose assessed importance or impact is High or Critical. This answers “which matching headlines deserved attention?” It does not promise that a liquid market moved.
- With Reaction — market response first. It keeps only events with a meaningful measured market reaction; muted, unavailable, and suppressed reactions are excluded. The colored chip shows the tracked instrument and signed move.
A useful sequence is All to understand the story, High Impact to isolate consequential updates, then With Reaction to study the subset that coincided with a qualifying price move. For a noisy source such as Truth Social, those three views turn hundreds of posts into a usable event history.
13Search: the research half
The tape tells you what's crossing now. Search tells you everything that crossed before — with the market's measured response each time. That combination is the research workflow: any ticker, company, or theme returns the dated headlines of the last 45 days of the published feed, and the Historical picker (Prime) opens any older day.
The dark panel on top is Search Intelligence — the research shortcuts for whatever you typed:
- Matched tape — the dated headlines themselves. This is your event history for the name.
- Reactions only — one tap drops everything that didn't move a price. What's left is the list of headlines the market actually traded.
- Options flow — the day's positioning in the name: $21.0M, 88% calls, 137 sweeps. The flow and the news, side by side.
- Deep dive and proof — the long-form article on the name and the public headline-to-price receipt.
What to type: a ticker (NVDA, MU), a company (easyJet), a theme (tariffs, CPI, Hormuz), a person (Powell). Each returns the same thing — dated events plus measured reactions — which is exactly what you want before touching a name.
- Before the open — the calendar for today's prints, the latest Market Pulse for the overnight thread, and a search on your names for anything you missed.
- During the session — the live tape, filtered your way; watchlist on when it's busy. A red Critical edge means read now.
- Something moves — search the ticker: catalyst, measured reaction, options context. Ten seconds.
- After the close — earnings panels as they land, and Replay & Learn to drill the vocabulary on real, dated history.
14Options Flow
Two surfaces, one dataset: a compact live summary on the feed itself, and the full board.
The panel at the top left of the feed tracks the current options session live — you don't have to keep the board open:
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1How the session leans. $63.6M so far, 79% of it in calls.
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215 straight days of call buying in one name.
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3The catalyst behind the flow — with its measured reaction.
The full board lists every big print, ranked by premium — where size is positioning right now:
15Free vs Pro vs Prime
- Free — a capped live preview. Enough to judge speed and relevance.
- Pro — the full real-time tape: every reaction line, Truth Social direct, earnings panels, Options Flow, search and its intelligence panel, alerts, watchlists.
- Prime — everything in Pro, plus Broker Moves, Institutional Research, the Historical date picker, and team services.
Practice on real, dated headlines in Replay & Learn, or compare plans.
Every screenshot on this page is a real card or a real search from the live product, frozen at the date shown; prices have moved since. Information only — MoveSurge never gives investment advice or trade recommendations, and an unusual options print is a fact about positioning, not a forecast.