My search of fio didn't produce any recent discussion on news feeds. Many of the older "squawk" services are either no longer in existence or way too rich for my blood (at this point). I'm old enough to remember the old squawk boxes as a commodity broker and if that's what these new services are, I do NOT want THAT. Too much noise for me.

Theoretically, I wouldn't mind using my phone or even paying for WSJ or Barron's (or similar) as long as I get the timely alerts and can limit them. I use BBC primarily for general news and have set just about every filter I can find and still get way too many alerts for stuff that doesn't concern me. I don't want that in a financial news service either.

I've seen people talk about twitter. I don't really do twitter, but might consider it. How is twitter used to monitor unexpected events like the oil depot that was blown up on Friday? I don't want to be looking at my phone every 5 seconds. If an important event happens, can twitter be set to know what is "important" and sound a notification?

Friday, I was long and 10 points in the money on the MES when the news about the oil depot hit. I new something must have happened, but didn't know what. Didn't come across my BBC feed. I had already tightened my stop loss to just above break even so it didn't hurt me on THAT trade. However, I lost small amounts on a few trades trying to get back in before finally finding the pulse and taking a 22 point profit at the close.

Blind to news isn't good, but I think I'd prefer it to a constant noise or continuous notifications. I appreciate any suggestions.

<ETA> I've seen mention of financialjuice. I checked out their website but the "sign up" wall is a real turn off. I just wanted to poke around before giving them personal info. I managed to get past it once but it seems that they give you about 1 minute before putting up the wall and disabling any further perusal. Any experience with the free vs pro accounts?

I've seen mention of financialjuice. I checked out their website but the "sign up" wall is a real turn off. I just wanted to poke around before giving them personal info. I managed to get past it once but it seems that they give you about 1 minute before putting up the wall and disabling any further perusal. Any experience with the free vs pro accounts?

I use the free version and it works fine letting me know if anything important is due or taking place. The data announcements are delayed 10-20 seconds which really makes no difference to me as I have it in the background and glance at it occasionally, keep an eye on red highlights if somebody is speaking, or if a large directional move unexpectedly happens.
The sign up is only a username, password and email address and I don't receive many emails from them.
This is the first mention I see (Eastern time), for the oil depot fire scrolling back through Friday.