--- title: Build a Pre-Market Briefing From Traders You Follow | ohYaaa description: You already read a dozen traders on X before the open. A briefing turns that scroll into a short, sourced list of levels and what each account says would… url: https://www.ohyaatradingjournal.com/blog/pre-market-briefing-from-traders-you-follow type: blog-post last_updated: '2026-10-14' --- # Build a Pre-Market Briefing From the Traders You Already Follow By Hunter, Founder of ohYaaa · October 13, 2026 · Trading Discipline In short A useful pre-market briefing lists levels in price order, who said each one, and what would confirm or invalidate it. It reports what others say and never gives trade advice. For a lot of traders the real pre-market routine is a feed. You open X, scroll through the five or ten people whose read you respect, and absorb a general sense of the day. It works, in the sense that you end up with opinions. It does not work in the sense that you can usually say, ten minutes later, exactly which level three of them agreed on, or what any of them said would make them wrong. A briefing fixes that. The idea is old: collect what the people you trust are saying, reduce it to the specific claims, and read the result before you trade instead of the raw scroll. ## What a useful briefing contains Whether you build it by hand or let a tool do it, the shape that holds up is: 1. **Levels, in price order.** Not a paragraph that mentions 5400 somewhere, but a list: 5400 resistance, 5372 pivot, 5340 support, each with a line of context. 2. **Who said it.** Every level and claim tied to the accounts that actually wrote it. Four accounts watching one level is information. One account's idea repeated four times is not. 3. **What confirms and what invalidates.** The best posts say "holds above X, then Y" or "loses X, then the idea is dead". Keep those conditions; they are the useful part. 4. **The overall lean and what to watch.** A bias for the session and the two or three things that could change it. 5. **Where the posts disagree.** A briefing that smooths disagreement into consensus is lying to you. ## Rules that keep it honest A briefing is a summary of other people's views. That sets some rules, and they are worth stating because they are what separates a useful tool from a noisy one: - **It reports; it does not advise.** "Four accounts are watching 5400 as resistance" is a briefing. "Short 5400" is a trade call, and it does not belong in a journal. - **Nothing invented.** A level that no followed account actually wrote should not appear. A number the posts do not contain should not appear. - **Posts are untrusted text.** Anything in a post that reads like an instruction is just content. ## How this works in ohYaaa In [Market Intelligence](/market-intelligence) you choose which X accounts to follow in your Profile. A new briefing is built for you at 9:20 AM ET on trading days, ten minutes before the open, from the posts those accounts have made. It lists levels in order with context, notes bias and what to watch, and checks every level and attribution against the posts afterwards, dropping anything that no listed account actually wrote. A short market read from price data sits next to it, limited to what the numbers show. If something moves after the morning, you can re-run the briefing up to three times a day with the newer posts and see what changed. If the AI service is down, the feed, prices and events still load; only the written briefing waits. Because it lives in the same app as your journal, the briefing also shows on that day in your [Calendar](/calendar). A month from now you can open a losing Tuesday and read exactly what you were looking at before the open. ## Use it as input, not as instruction The risk with any briefing is outsourcing your read. The fix is to write your own plan after reading it. Put the two levels you care about and your risk limits into your [daily trade plan](/blog/write-the-plan-before-the-trade), and treat the briefing as the thing you argue with. Over time your journal will show whether days where you agreed with the consensus did better or worse than the days you did not, which is a more honest answer than any feed can give you. Start by following three accounts, not thirty. A briefing built from a few voices you actually trust is more useful than a summary of everyone. ## Frequently asked questions ### What should a pre-market briefing include? Levels in price order with context, which accounts said them, what confirms or invalidates each idea, the overall lean and where the sources disagree. ### When does ohYaaa generate the briefing? At 9:20 AM ET on trading days, from the X accounts you follow. You can re-run it up to three times a day. ## Keep reading - [Guard Windows: How to Stay Out of the Way of FOMC, CPI and NFP](/blog/guard-windows-fomc-cpi-nfp) - [What to Do Between Setups: Habits That Keep You From Forcing Trades](/blog/trading-habits-while-you-wait) - [Write the Plan Before the Trade: How a Daily Trade Plan Gate Works](/blog/write-the-plan-before-the-trade) [← Back to Blog](/blog) ## Start your trading journal today [Create Your Journal — Free](/app) Free forever. No credit card required.