Deltix Concludes in New Research that Positive Returns Can Be Achieved by Trading On Earnings Date Revisions from Wall Street Horizon

Natick, MA, November 16, 2015 – Deltix, a leading provider of software and services for quantitative research, algorithmic and automated systematic trading, announced today the results of their recent research that tested whether earnings announcement date revisions for S&P 500 stocks can be used to predict future stock prices in a manner that can be profitably traded.

A summary of the research methodology and results can be found here.

A copy of the research report can be downloaded HERE.

The research concludes that positive returns can be achieved by trading with earnings date revision signals derived from Wall Street Horizon data.  Wall Street Horizon, a provider of accurate and timely corporate event dates and information, is the only company that could provide an historical record of earnings date changes.

Additionally, the results supported previous academic research on the topic and found that:

  • The most likely positive returns occur when the earnings announcement date is advanced (i.e. brought forward) in the second half of the quarter.
  • Conversely, the most probable negative returns occurred when the earnings announcement date is delayed in the first half of the quarter.
  • For both hedged and un-hedged versions of the strategy, for the period January 2006 to September 2015, the back-tested strategies showed Sharpe Ratios of 2.08 (un-hedged) and 2.12 (hedged) with average profit per share of 10 cents and 8 cents respectively.

 “We look forward to sharing the details of this research with our clients as we are convinced there is money that can be made with a trading strategy built around earnings date changes,” said Ilya Gorelik, founder and CEO of Deltix. “I would also like to thank Wall Street Horizon for providing us with data sets that made this study possible.”


About Deltix

Deltix is a leading provider of software and services for quantitative research, algorithmic and automated systematic trading. Deltix software enables a complete straight through processing environment for the development and deployment of closely-integrated alpha generation and/or execution strategies. Deltix has won nine industry awards since 2012 and was most recently recognized as the “Best Complex Event Processing (CEP) Platform” in November 2014.  Deltix is headquartered in Natick, Massachusetts, and has offices in New York, Minsk and St. Petersburg, Russia. For more information, please visit  http://www.deltixlab.com