What a 41-minute head start implies to crypto traders is faster than the pace of news?

When news of an exchange listing reaches the crypto market, it usually results in a surge in trading activity and a quick (though typically brief) increase in the crypto asset price. The amount of movement depends on the exchange making the announcement, the token's liquidity, and various other variables; however, a Coinbase or Binance listing has been shown to impact markets on numerous occasions.

Of fact, the market players who respond the quickest to such news typically get the greatest delta opportunity.

So, to beat the market, where does the smart crypto investor spend their time? Are you a frequent visitor to the Coinbase blog? Is it legal to bug CZ's non-existent office? Sifting through tens of thousands of Twitter accounts?

When there's money to be made, human ingenuity finds a way in this instance, Cointelegraph Markets Pro's NewsQuakeTM service, which sends market-moving news to members in seconds... and sometimes well before the general public is aware of significant events.

A machine-learning algorithm is at the core of the magic, constantly monitoring hundreds of crypto blogs, Twitter accounts, and industry magazines. It chooses the exchange listings, collaborations, and staking announcements that have historically impacted coin values the most and sends notifications to subscribers.

It's the same technology that powers Cointelegraph (and our main rivals) news, except it's delivered in seconds, without the need to write a piece beforehand.

Three announcements this month have shown that if traders aren't quick, they'll be enraged.

Building a Cardano interoperability bridge is clearly significant for Nervous Network and its utility token, CKB.

While most people hear about such partnerships via Twitter, blockchain initiatives often publish the news first on their blogs. The NewsQuakesTM algorithm has you covered here, monitoring every worthwhile crypto project's blog.

When the Nervous-Cardano collaboration was announced on the company's blog on June 2, Markets Pro took less than 40 seconds to send out a warning to its subscribers, shown by a red circle in the chart. CKB was trading at $0.015 at the time. The price didn't change much in the following two hours, indicating that just a few crypto traders were aware of it.

Surprisingly, it took two hours for the news to be tweeted, following which the price started to rise. It climbed to $0.024 in less than 30 hours, a 37 percent gain.

Those who got Markets Pro's first NewsQuakeTM warning on their phone gained two hours of additional time, which they could spend to consider their investment options and slowly load their bags with the currency that was about to erupt.

The time between the May 24 blog announcement of ADA staking on OKEx and the platform's tweet the following day notifying users that the service was now operational was also very long: 22 hours.

The NewsQuakesTM algorithm identified the original blog post as potentially significant in less than a minute and sent out a warning.

As ADA's price continued to rise rapidly from there, many others appeared to notice, reaching $1.57 by the time the tweet was sent.

For those who invested in the first NewsQuakeTM, this 6.5 percent return in 22 hours might be considered a reward.

The waning momentum was boosted when the tweet emerged, and the Twitter mob surged to action. A day and a half later, the high of $1.77 was reached, implying that Markets Pro customers might have profited 17 percent from the event if they had entered soon after getting their first warning.

The duration between the exchange's blog post announcing the SOL listing and a later tweet was 42 minutes in the instance of the SOL listing on Bitfinex, which was announced on May 31. Thus, with a NewsQuakeTM delivery speed of under a minute, Markets Pro users had approximately 41 minutes to consider and put up their purchase orders before the news reached the trading masses.

As seen in the graph, Solana's price did not jump rapidly after that, instead of following a steadier path that saw it climb from approximately $31 at the time of the NewsQuakesTM to almost $38 within three days – a 19% gain in value.

Markets are information systems, and the value of any asset is determined by the flow of information among market players. This is particularly true in the cryptocurrency sector, where the value of digital assets is very susceptible to market mood fluctuations caused by news.

Those fortunate enough to beat the crowd to an actionable scoop by even a few minutes may benefit from their knowledge.

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