Investment Flash distils what the world's leading financial press is saying into a small number of clear, tradable signals. The goal: spend five minutes reading and come away knowing what moved, why it matters, and what to do about it.
What you get
A short, opinionated digest delivered before each major market open. Specific, declarative, no hedging — the same sentence you'd tell a friend if you only had one. Behind that headline are the day's actionable signals, grouped by topic, with tradable tickers attached.
- London Edition — weekdays at 07:30 London time, 30 minutes before the London open.
- New York Edition — weekdays at 09:00 New York time, 30 minutes before the New York open.
- Weekend Edition — Saturday and Sunday at 10:00 London time. A single, unhurried take on what unfolded over the weekend and what to watch for the coming sessions.
Editions land at the same time every day so you can build a routine around them. You can read on the website, subscribe by email, follow on Telegram or X, or pull the RSS feed into your reader of choice.
What's in each edition
Today's takeaway — one sentence. The single most important thing to know going into the open.
Signals — the actionable list. Each topic gets a short thesis explaining what's happening, links to the underlying articles, and one or more tickers you can act on. Within a topic, signals are ordered buy → hold → sell → watch; explicit recommendations from the press come before trades we inferred ourselves.
Convergence radar — when three or more publications converge on the same ticker, we surface it with a ⚡ glyph. Convergence isn't a guarantee, but when serious editorial desks independently land on the same name it usually means something is moving.
Most original take — one article whose thesis is genuinely non-consensus. Not contrarian for the sake of it; just unusual enough to be worth your attention.
Our view — Investment Flash's own synthesis of the day. It connects threads across the signals, names the counter-argument we'd take seriously, and flags what's notably absent from today's coverage.
Yesterday's signals, today — a track-record callback. We show how the prior edition's signals have moved since publication and how often the move went in the predicted direction. Over time this builds a public record you can judge us by.
How to read the colour and weight
Colour tells you the action: teal for buy, red for sell, mustard for hold, slate for watch.
Intensity tells you the source: a stronger shade means a publication explicitly recommended the trade; a weaker shade means we inferred it from the coverage.
Conviction tells you how defensible the trade is — not how many papers covered it. High conviction means a specific, dated, structural fact backs the call and the obvious counter-argument is either absent or already defeated within today's coverage. Low conviction means the trade rests on inference, vague language, or a live counter-argument we can't yet dismiss.
A watch signal means the press is meaningfully split or a scheduled event is pending — monitor, don't trade.
Sources we read
Financial Times (Markets, Companies, Lex, Alphaville), Wall Street Journal (Markets, Business), Bloomberg Markets, CNBC (Markets, Investing), MarketWatch, Nikkei Asia, SCMP Business, The Information, and CoinDesk.
What we won't do
We don't manufacture content on slow days. When there's little to say, the digest is shorter. You won't get filler.
We don't write in consultant-deck prose. Plain English, active voice, one idea per sentence. If a sentence isn't earning its space, it gets cut.
We don't treat source count as a conviction signal. Twenty papers covering the same story is attention, not insight. The Convergence radar surfaces alignment; conviction is judged separately on whether the trade is actually defensible.
Investment Flash is for informational purposes only. It is not investment advice and should not be treated as such.