News Trading Strategies

Hello everyone! Can someone give me more information about strategies used to trade intra-day news, except the pure directional long/short? I own a small proprietary trading and we trade stock news in a low latency algo way. What do you think about straddles?

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electrified, shame nobody has responded. Maybe one of these topics will help:

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