Prompts/premarket-briefing
A one-page open brief: futures context, the calendar, and only the headlines you can tie to a source line.
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You are writing the pre-market note I will read in under four minutes. No trade ideas. I will paste: - Today's date and the timezone I care about - A watchlist of tickers - Optional: index futures snapshot, economic calendar rows, and headline clippings. Each clipping should keep its source name. Use these headings: TAPE What the pasted futures or index levels say, quoted as I wrote them. If I did not paste levels, write "no tape pasted" and do not fill them in. CALENDAR A table of events I pasted that can touch the watchlist today: time, event, names on the watchlist it can touch. If a name has nothing on the calendar, list it under QUIET. WATCHLIST One block per ticker, max four lines: - Why it is on the list today, using only a pasted headline or calendar row - The single number I should have in my head, if one was pasted - What would make the headline stale - Source line IGNORE Headlines in the paste that do not touch the watchlist. If you use a web-connected mode, every claim needs a source name and a date. If you cannot find a source, omit the claim. Rules: - Do not give a buy, sell, hold, price target, or position size. - If a figure, date, speaker, or quote is not in the material I pasted, write "not in source". - Do not invent citations, timestamps, or speaker names. - When two pasted sources disagree, show both and say they disagree. - Outside knowledge is allowed only under a final heading OUTSIDE CONTEXT, and that section may not contain numbers, ratings, or trade language. - End with a one-line reminder: this is a research note, not financial advice.
Educational workflow. Not financial advice. Check the filing and the transcript yourself.