Scott’s List · news tool review
The short version. Live market headlines and an audio squawk with a strong free tier and paid plans for lower latency and the full news desk. It’s how I know a headline hit before the chart tells me. I don’t trade without Financial Juice Elite.
Evidence level: In my stack, used daily.
Jump to: My notes · The verdict
What it is
Financial Juice delivers live headlines, an audio squawk that reads the important ones aloud, an economic calendar, and event alerts across futures, rates, FX, commodities, and equities. The free account gives broad access to headlines; the paid tiers add real-time squawk, lower latency, triggers, and analytics. It sits in the corner of the screen and talks when something matters.
The facts at a glance
- Free tier with headlines and calendar; paid tiers for real-time squawk, triggers, and the full desk, billed quarterly.
- Audio squawk reads market-moving headlines as they hit.
- Economic calendar with event alerts for CPI, FOMC, NFP, and the rest.
- Browser and app access; runs alongside anything.
- Widely used for speed and reliability; the free tier is unusually generous.
Figures are as published at the time of writing and change without notice. Read the current terms on the company’s own site before you pay for anything.
How it fits the VWAP Wave System™
The first item in the system’s daily decision flow is the catalyst check: is there a scheduled event that overrides everything else today? Financial Juice is where I do that, and where I hear the unscheduled ones. A trend day that starts on a headline is still a trend day, but knowing why it started changes how I grade the continuation.
What’s on my screen
This is my Financial Juice Elite, open all day: the economic calendar on the left, the live headlines in the middle, and the voice news squawk on the right, with TickStrike‘s S&P 500 audio built in.
My 24/7 news feeds: 36 feeds from 14 sources
- Benzinga: Economics, Markets, News
- Bloomberg: Bonds, Commodities, Economy (two feeds), Energy Markets, Markets, Municipal Bonds, Stocks, Worldwide
- CNBC: Earnings News, Economy, Stock Market Headlines, US Top News
- Federal Reserve: Press Releases, Speeches & Testimony
- MarketWatch: Market Pulse, Top Stories
- OilPrice
- Reuters: Bonds, Business News, Company News, Deals, Economy, US Markets
- South China Morning Post: News, Politics
- SpotGamma: Blog
- Trump’s Truth Social posts
- USGS: earthquake alerts, magnitude 4.5 and up
- WSJ: Markets News, World News
- Yahoo Finance
- Trading Pub: Blog
Scott’s notes
I don’t trade without Financial Juice Elite. It runs whenever the market is open, even when I’m not trading, for awareness. My notes on the AI news scan I run alongside it are coming here.
Verdict
I don’t trade without Elite. If you’re starting out, the free tier is enough for the catalyst check; upgrade when the squawk latency starts costing you.
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