A Downgrade Means Something Different to Every Holder
An analyst downgrade is bad news for someone who owns the stock, good news for someone who is short it, and a particular problem for someone who sold a put on it last week. A news feed shows all three of them the same headline in the same order as everything else that morning. Position news alerts tell each of them what the story means for their own position, and they stay quiet about the hundreds of stories that mean nothing.
It Starts From What You Hold
The watcher builds your exposure before it reads a single article: the shares in each of your accounts, the underlying of every option you hold together with the contract itself, long or short, call or put, strike and expiry, every stock running a wheel, and every stock in an open thesis check, including each member of a watchlist basket. Only articles linked to one of those symbols go any further, so a story about a company you have never touched never costs you an alert or the system a thought.
Most Headlines Never Reach the AI
Rules go first and cost nothing. Repeats and syndicated copies of the same story are dropped, matched on the symbol and a normalized title and on the opening words of the headline within 48 hours, and so is anything that was already more than a day old when it arrived. What survives moves on when its sentiment is not neutral, when it names one of the events that move positions, such as a downgrade or an upgrade, a guidance change, a miss or a beat, a lawsuit, an SEC investigation, an FDA decision, a recall, a merger, an offering, a bankruptcy, a delisting, a cut dividend, a departing chief executive, layoffs, a short report or a trading halt, or when the company reports earnings within three trading days.
One AI Read per Stock, Shared by Everyone Who Holds It
The AI judges each stock once, with up to six candidate articles at a time, and decides for each whether it is noteworthy, how urgent it is on a scale of low, medium and high, whether it helps or hurts someone who owns the shares, and why, in a headline and a sentence or two. That verdict is stored with the article and the stock, so a stock held by a thousand users is read once, and the AI never judges the same article for the same stock twice. When the model is unavailable, a story that hits one of the keywords with a non-neutral sentiment still becomes a medium alert, written by the rules instead.
The Alert Is Written for Your Position
The verdict describes what the story does to a long holder, and your alert describes what it does to you. A short position, a short call or a long put turns a negative story into a favorable one; a short put on the same stock makes it a negative one, and the alert names the contract you hold. When you hold exposure on both sides, the alert says the effect is mixed. You get one alert per story, never more than three about a single stock or ten in all in a day, and only at or above the minimum urgency you set. Quiet hours, which you pick in your own local time, hold real-time alerts back and deliver them when the quiet hours end.
Real Time on Pro and Elite, a Daily Summary on Free
On Pro and Elite, alerts go out as the server finds them, on every pass of its cycle. On the free plan they are gathered into one summary after 4:15 pm Eastern, the three most urgent stories of the day. Tapping an alert opens the story, the reason it matters and your exposure, with buttons to open the article, to discuss it in chat with the copilot already holding the details, and to open the thesis check it belongs to. The settings live under Settings, General, Position news alerts: the switch, the minimum urgency and the quiet hours.
You Can Ask Before the Alert Arrives
The copilot runs the same check on demand. Ask whether anything in the news affects your positions, or a stock you name, and it runs the same exposure, filter and AI judgment over the last 72 hours, or up to a week, and answers in the conversation without sending a notification. Verdicts that already exist cost nothing to reuse, and a check can run once a minute and thirty times a day. On the free plan it answers from stored and rule-based verdicts only. The copilot can also read a single stock's stored headlines with their sentiment, which gives it the market's recent coverage of a symbol without leaving Strikeline, and the same tools, along with your list of alerts, are available from Claude Code through Strikeline's MCP server.
The News Becomes Part of Your Thesis
A story about a stock with an open thesis check lands on that check's timeline as well, with a link to the alert when one was sent, and it goes into the AI's next review of the thesis. When a check-in tells you a breakout is failing, the guidance cut that started the slide is already in the reasoning.