News Impact Scoring

Most news is noise. A headline about interest rates might tank growth stocks and boost banks at the same time. Traditional sentiment tools miss this entirely: they label a headline as "positive" or "negative" without answering two critical questions:

• Negative for whom?
• Negative about what?

News Impact Scoring is what makes Swingtrader different. Instead of a single sentiment number, every article is transformed into a structured impact vector that maps news to the specific mechanics that move stock prices.

How it works

When a news article is ingested, it is scored across nine independent dimension clusters simultaneously. Each scoring head focuses on a different part of market mechanics and returns:

• Direction – positive or negative
• Magnitude – how strong the effect is
• Confidence – how sure the model is
• Plain-language explanation – why it scored that way

These heads run in parallel and together form a multi-dimensional view of how the article interacts with the market.

1. Macro Sensitivity

Question: How does this news affect macro exposures like interest rates, dollar strength, inflation, credit spreads, and commodity costs?

A Fed rate decision hits companies with floating-rate debt very differently from cash-rich businesses. This head evaluates:

• Rate sensitivity (growth vs value, levered vs cash-heavy)
• FX exposure (stronger/weaker dollar implications)
• Inflation and input cost pressures
• Credit conditions and spread risk