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Event-driven catalysts

Event-driven

Reactions and drift around scheduled and idiosyncratic events.

Event-driven strategies trade predictable behavior around catalysts. We validate post-earnings drift, surprise momentum, index reconstitution effects, and macro-release reactions with careful point-in-time handling to avoid lookahead.

Earnings, announcements, macro releases, and scheduled catalyst drift.

  • Event-driven catalysts
  • US equities
  • Futures
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20 example backtests

  1. 01

    Post-earnings announcement drift (PEAD) across US equities

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  2. 02

    Earnings-surprise momentum, top-decile SUE

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  3. 03

    Drift after revenue beats vs EPS beats

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  4. 04

    Guidance-revision drift study

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  5. 05

    Pre-earnings run-up positioning

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  6. 06

    Index reconstitution (add/drop) drift

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  7. 07

    FOMC-day index-futures behavior

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  8. 08

    CPI-release intraday reaction on ES

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  9. 09

    Dividend-initiation announcement drift

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  10. 10

    Buyback-announcement medium-term drift

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  11. 11

    Analyst upgrade/downgrade reaction

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  12. 12

    Post-split price behavior study

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  13. 13

    M&A target post-announcement drift

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  14. 14

    Earnings gap plus drift combined signal

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  15. 15

    Macro-release volatility expansion on CL

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  16. 16

    Sector reaction to commodity supply shocks

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  17. 17

    FDA decision announcement drift

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  18. 18

    Short-interest squeeze event study

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  19. 19

    Quad-witching expiration effects

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  20. 20

    Guidance-cut reversal after capitulation

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