Marketwatch.ie publishes one composite, two briefings, and an honest amount of news every market day. We don't sell stock tips. We don't run advertorial. We don't pretend the Irish market is bigger than it is, or smaller than it could be. We are, mostly, two people in Dublin and Cork, with a deep bench of contributors and a longer than fashionable attention span.
We started Marketwatch.ie because Irish investors deserved a market publication that was built for their circumstances, in their currency, on their time zone, and with the specific list of names they actually own.
The American press writes for an American audience; the British press writes for the City. The aggregators are noisy, repetitive, and frequently inaccurate. The data terminals are too expensive for a private investor and too dense for a casual reader. We thought the gap was worth filling, and we wrote a publication to fill it.
If we do our jobs well, you should be able to read everything we publish in under five minutes a day and walk away with a more accurate mental model of where the world's markets stand than you would from any other free source available to you.
Why eight? Because we counted, and seven was too few, and nine added nothing.
An indicator with eight components is one a person can hold in their head. An indicator with eighty is, at best, a backtest. We chose constraint.
Optimised weights are a conceit; they fit the past at the expense of the future. Equal weights say what they are: an admission that we don't know which market will matter most next week.
We tell you what mood the market is in. We do not pretend to tell you what it will do next. That distinction is, in our view, the entire ethical core of the publication.
The site is built around the same number. It is not a coincidence; it is the constraint that forces us to keep the site as readable as the briefing.
The rules we hold ourselves to. We expect to be told when we miss them.
Small, deliberate, and named. The people writing the publication you're reading.
Reachable, by humans, on every meaningful channel.
We answer every email a human sends us, usually within twenty-four hours and almost always within forty-eight. We don't use chatbots, autoresponders, or ticketing systems. If you write to us, you'll hear back from a person.
If you've found a mistake, please send it to the corrections address. We treat the correction queue as the most important inbox on the site, and we read it before we read anything else.
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