Company filings organised by type and by when they landed — during the session, before the open, after the close, or over the weekend.
Most announcements are noise, and the ones that matter have usually already moved the price. Knowing which is which is the whole skill.
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Listed companies must disclose material developments through the exchange. That stream includes results, order wins, dividends and splits, mergers and acquisitions, credit rating changes, fund raising, legal matters, operational updates, management changes and exchange queries.
This page organises that stream by category and by timing, and it deliberately avoids colouring anything green or red. That restraint is the design decision that matters most: an order win is not automatically good news for the share price, and a downgrade is not automatically bad. Whether the announcement moves the price depends on what was already expected and already priced in.
The timing labels — filed during the session, before the open, after the close, or over the weekend — matter because they determine who has had a chance to react. An announcement made mid-session has already been traded on by the time you read it. One filed after the close gives you an evening to think.
This is context, not a trading signal. The most common mistake with announcement data is treating a headline as a reason to buy something you had not previously analysed.
News is the most seductive and least reliable reason most people give for a trade.
Swing traders
Understand why a stock in your watchlist suddenly moved, and whether the reason has legs.
Investors
Track developments in companies you own without reading every filing individually.
Event traders
Separate announcements that create sustained interest from those producing a single-day pop.
Beginners
Learn the single most important lesson about news: by the time you read it, the market has usually finished reacting.
Categorised
Results, orders, corporate actions, credit, capital raising, legal, operations and management, each filterable.
Timing labels
Whether a filing landed in-session, pre-open, after close or over a weekend changes how it will be absorbed.
No colour coding
Nothing is marked good or bad, because the price reaction depends on expectations rather than the headline.
Explains sudden moves
When a watchlist stock jumps, this is usually where the reason is.
Built-in guidance
On-page notes explaining how to read filings and what genuinely deserves attention.
Pairs with flow data
An announcement plus sustained delivery-based buying is a far stronger combination than either alone.
A filterable feed with editorial guidance woven through it.
Filters wrap into a scrollable row and the feed reads as a simple list, which suits a phone well for an evening review.
Best used in two situations: an evening review, and explaining an unexpected move.
Filter to categories that matter
Results, order wins, fund raising and M&A change the business. Routine operational and administrative filings usually do not.
Check the timing label
An in-session filing has already been traded. A post-close filing gives you time to think before the market reopens.
Ask what was expected
A good result that was widely anticipated often produces a fall. The surprise relative to expectations drives the price, not the absolute number.
Look at the reaction, not the headline
Did the stock hold its gains through the session, or give them back? Sustained strength is the informative part.
Cross-check the flow
Pair the announcement with delivery and volume data. Committed buying following news means far more than a one-day spike.
Wait for a setup
If the company is genuinely more valuable, there will be another entry. Chasing the first candle after news is the worst available price.
Use it to explain, not to predict
Its best daily use is understanding why a stock you already follow moved, which improves your judgement over time.
The categories and labels, and how much attention each deserves.
| Field | What it tells you | How to use it |
|---|---|---|
| Results / Earnings | Quarterly or annual financial performance. | The most consequential category, but reaction depends entirely on expectations rather than the numbers alone. |
| Order wins | New contracts or orders received. | Judge the size against the company's annual revenue. Many announced orders are immaterial in that context. |
| Dividends & splits | Corporate actions affecting shareholders directly. | Usually mechanical rather than informative, though the signal about management confidence can matter. |
| M&A | Mergers, acquisitions and stake changes. | Can change the business fundamentally. Frequently the category with the largest and most lasting price impact. |
| Credit rating | Changes in assessed creditworthiness. | Particularly important for leveraged companies, where financing costs materially affect profitability. |
| Fund raising | Raising capital through equity or debt. | Read carefully — capital for expansion is very different from capital raised to service existing debt. |
| Legal | Litigation and regulatory matters. | Usually a risk factor rather than an opportunity; check whether the amounts involved are material. |
| Management | Changes in senior leadership. | Unexpected departures, particularly of a CFO or auditor, deserve more attention than routine appointments. |
| Exchange queries | The exchange asking a company to clarify unusual movement. | Often follows a sharp price move without visible cause. Treat the stock with caution rather than curiosity. |
| Timing label | When the filing landed relative to the session. | Determines who has already reacted and how much of the move you have missed. |
Four ways the market responds to news.
A company announces quarterly results showing solid profit growth. The stock opens 4% higher, then slides all day and closes below the previous session's close. Delivery data for the session is unremarkable.
The result was good but the market had already expected it, so those who bought in anticipation used the announcement to sell into the strength others provided. The unremarkable delivery figure confirms nobody was accumulating. The pattern is common enough to have a name — buy the rumour, sell the news — and it explains most cases where a stock falls on good news.
The lesson is that price reacts to surprise, not to quality. A very good result that everyone anticipated is not a surprise.
The discipline here is mostly about restraint.
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Trading the headline rather than the reaction. The announcement is public the moment it appears, and faster participants have already acted. What is still available to you is the information in how the stock behaved afterwards — which is genuinely useful and much less crowded.
They are disclosures companies are required to make through the exchange about material developments — results, orders, dividends, acquisitions, rating changes, legal matters and management changes. They are public and available to everyone simultaneously.
Because the news was already expected and reflected in the price. Markets react to surprises. If everyone anticipated a strong result, the announcement gives early buyers an opportunity to sell into the strength.
It is difficult. The information is public and acted on within seconds by faster participants. Traders who do well with news usually trade the follow-through over subsequent days rather than the initial reaction.
Results, mergers and acquisitions, large fund raising and material rating changes tend to have the biggest lasting impact. Routine operational updates and administrative filings usually move nothing.
It determines who has been able to react. A filing during the session has already been traded on; one after the close gives everyone an evening to consider it, which typically produces a more orderly reaction at the next open.
Because the same announcement can be good or bad depending on what was expected. Labelling a filing green or red would encourage exactly the reflexive reaction that costs people money.
Compare its value to the company's annual revenue. An order worth 2% of revenue is unlikely to change anything meaningfully, however impressive the number looks in isolation.
The exchange asking a company to explain unusual price or volume movement. It often follows a sharp move with no visible cause and is generally a reason for caution rather than interest.
Only if you can accept a large gap against you. Results can move a stock 10% or more overnight, and no stop-loss protects against a gap. Many traders simply reduce or close positions beforehand.
An announcement explains why activity changed; delivery data tells you whether the buying was committed or intraday churn. Together they answer both the why and the how seriously.
It describes participants buying in anticipation of an expected event and selling once it is confirmed. It is why stocks often peak on the day the good news is officially announced.
Once in the evening, focused on stocks you already follow. Reading every filing across the market produces far more noise than insight.
Every technical term above, written for someone who has never traded before.
Disclosed buying or selling by people who run the company.
Promoters and senior management must legally disclose their transactions in their own company's shares. These filings are public. Consistent buying by insiders is one of the few signals where the buyer genuinely knows the business better than the market does. Selling is noisier — it can simply mean a house purchase or tax planning.
The share of the day's volume that people actually kept.
Not every trade is an investment. Intraday traders buy and sell the same day, so those shares are never delivered to a demat account. Delivery percentage strips those out and shows the share of volume held overnight. High delivery on a rising day suggests genuine accumulation rather than day-trading churn.
A sudden burst of trading far above the recent norm.
A spike says something changed — news, a large buyer, or a technical level breaking. Spikes at the start of a move are usually the beginning of participation. Spikes after a long run, especially with little price progress, often mark the opposite: the crowd arriving late while earlier buyers exit.
Today's open is far away from yesterday's close.
Gaps happen when news arrives while the market is closed, so the first trade of the day prices it in immediately. A gap up on strong volume that then holds its opening range is a sign of real demand. A gap that fills back into the previous day's range within the first hour usually signals the opposite.
How easily you can get in and out at a fair price.
A liquid stock has enough daily turnover that your order does not move the price. Illiquid names look attractive on a scanner because their percentage moves are large, but the spread between buy and sell prices quietly eats those gains, and exiting in a fall can be difficult.
Holding for a few days to a few weeks.
Swing trading targets one leg of a move rather than every wiggle. Decisions are made after market hours, positions are held overnight, and stops are wider than intraday. For anyone with a job, it is usually the most practical style.
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