There’s two sides to it: you might decide to take a more aggressive position, but you might also use the headlines as a signal to back off (and stop or scale ba

There’s two sides to it: you might decide to take a more aggressive position, but you might also use the headlines as a signal to back off (and stop or scale back trading of securities for the affected underlying, at least temporarily). One tends to carry more serious consequences when you’re wrong. Accordingly, the ‘take’ path generally has more checks, and more opportunities to abort.