Financial media is produced continuously and priced for attention, so the volume of alarming material is unrelated to how much has actually changed. A trader consuming it all experiences a permanent sense that something requires action.
The cost is not just stress. Headlines arrive after the move, the framing is designed to be memorable, and acting on them produces entries with no defined risk. This is availability-heuristic delivered on a subscription.
Decide in advance which releases matter for your strategy, check those on a schedule, and leave the rest. A defined news window beats a permanent feed for both results and sleep.
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