The verification sprint, by hand and by tool call.
Every one of these checks decides trades, every one is public information, and every one costs minutes you don't have while the tape is moving. This table is the product's reason to exist.
The questionBy hand, against the clockOne tool call
Is there a filing behind the story?EDGAR full-text search in two tabs, squinting at timestamps while the clock runs ~3 minchatter.documentsWhat was searched, what was found, and when: absence reported as a result, not a blank
Is the float number real?A screener figure of unknown age, cross-checked against the last S-1 if you have time, which you don't ~4 minscanner.snapshotFloat with the date of the filing it came from, next to RVOL, gap and halt state
Is the attention organic, or a room?Scroll three feeds, recognise nothing, guess ~2 minchatter.scoreCopied-wording share, author age, funnel links: measured, with the evidence attached
What does this event class usually do?You do not have 1,200 historical episodes in your head. Nobody does n/acalendar.baseRateMedian move, halt share and drawdown for this event type at this float band, with n
Am I the trader this setup eats?Your journal: if you kept one, and if you re-read it, which you didn't at 07:04 honest? neverledger.performanceYour own expectancy on this setup, sliced by session and mistake tag
That is the painkiller, plainly: the pre-trade verification sprint, eleven-odd minutes across six tabs, done badly under pressure, becomes one question to the model you already use, answered with the trail attached. Not predictions. Not signals. The checking, done properly, at machine speed.