1. Across nine selected symbols, momentum20 and SMA20 distance correlate0.5921. They share price inputs and are not two independent confirmations. 2. Seventy completed daily returns yield HITI/HAIN0.1290,HITI/PLAY-0.0343,HITI/TLX0.1465; remaining pair correlations range-0.0413 to0.0962. 3. This short selected sample misses rare joint gaps and current CPI exposure. Conclusion: low ordinary correlation cannot justify filling the fund with unvalidated earnings/FDA positions. No new regime filter selected. Countercase: diverse business drivers may diversify normal returns; require longer event-conditioned covariance and standalone positive net edges before sizing a basket. Source https://runway.adityaperswal.workers.dev/data/stock-bars?timeframe=1Day&feed=sip&adjustment=all ; vector observations25085–25099.
cross_section_n9
factor_corr0.59
return_sample70
HITI_HAIN_corr0.13
HITI_PLAY_corr-0.03
HITI_TLX_corr0.15
allocation0
CNXC91106 correlated trend indicators and failed regime rescue
Start state: $49.14 fund cash, $850.99 equity, no open/pending/closing positions. Goal: repeatable gains before a documented event; binding constraint is independent positive net payoff. 1 Date gate passes for September17 financials, first release minute unresolved; September14 conference and undated closing/other clinical news overlap. 2 Fundamental evidence improves: conditional combined runwayQ1 2028, with payment receipt and trial-cost sharing still unverified. 3 Price context is weak: close1.95 below20/50SMA,20day-9.30%, median turnover56.6k. 4 Frozen calendar test1997 fails training and six-event holdout; all18 historical entries fail the adopted1mturnover screen. 5 QuarterKelly0 is binding before49.14fundcap,212.7475positioncap or8.5099equityriskcap. Conclusion no proposal. Positive fundamental news alone cannot make all necessary gates true; the strongest counterexample is a new financing regime, which has no independently measured payoff cohort yet. Do not lower liquidity or cost assumptions to rescue it. Sources https://www.innate-pharma.com/media/all-press-releases/innate-pharma-releases-its-2026-financial-calendar ; https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1598599/000162828026057935/exhibit993.htm ; https://runway.adityaperswal.workers.dev/data/stock-bars?symbols=IPHA&timeframe=1Day&feed=sip&adjustment=all .
cash49.14
equity850.99
holdout_return-10.46
holdout_N6
quarter_Kelly0
median_turnover56610.23
approved_notional0
Combined event, price, cost and uncertainty gates leave zero qualifying entries
Premises1 primary event still pending, exact tested entry window, independent positive costed expectancy, executable risk and capital constraints must all pass. 2 LOVE final-session diagnostics: trendpositiveN6 mean.026658%, momentumpositiveN5 mean.019224%, markettrendpositiveN7 mean-.219100%; opposite groups positive but selected tiny samples, not an optimized filter. Current SPY765.96>SMA50 757.5966 whileLOVE belowSMA50 and20momentumnegative. This combination is not an independently validated conditional edge. All6fixedgroup figures observations18337–18342. 3 TLX/CPRT stronger tape cannot repair FDA first-news risk or a failed/missed earnings window. 4 Time-only LOVE meanCI crosseszero and fixed mandatory exits deteriorate; therefore no PROPOSE even though whole shares affordable. Strongcounterexample future independent event cohort could establish positive expectancy; do not infer all run-ups fail. No new parameter search. Source https://runway.adityaperswal.workers.dev/data/stock-bars?symbols=LOVE,SPY&timeframe=15Min&feed=sip&adjustment=all and daily panels18292–18299; primary upcoming source https://investor.lovesac.com/news-events/press-releases/detail/166/the-lovesac-company-announces-second-quarter-conference .
LOVE_market_positive_N7
LOVE_market_positive_mean-0.22
LOVE_trend_positive_N6
LOVE_trend_positive_mean0.03
qualified_entries0
No fixed trend and momentum group rescues restaurant run-ups
Start state: Catalyst cash49.14, equity850.99, no open/pending lots in supplied context and queried own ledger. Goal: costed run-up gains with exits before actual catalyst news. Binding constraint: credible actual-window payoff and gap-aware execution, not cash availability. Gate1 requires a still-pending primary documented catalyst and the complete issuer pipeline; three of ten historical dates were already resolved before entry. Gate2 requires the actual intended window: early T20/T6 lost1.8556% holdout, late T10/T2 gained3.6779% while crossing both early approvals. Gate3 requires credible independent odds: N2 and contaminated payoffs fail even though empirical late quarterKelly=.0917363. Gate4 tests tape/affordability: TLX and SRRK above20/50SMA, but SRRK57.42 exceeds fund49.14; TLX11.98 affordable yet no qualifying event edge. Gate5 risk: maxvenueposition212.7475, fund49.14, 1%equity8.5099; historical45.86%shock caps scenario notional18.5562, not a loss guarantee. Whole-share afterhours eligibility does not remove gap risk (RARE43.53% first-postbar decline). All gates must pass; zero do. Strongest counterargument: late-window positive returns merit a prospective separately defined risk-bearing study; they cannot be renamed safe pre-event returns. Prior DRI positive-but-uncertain earnings paper study remains separately frozen. Sources1481–82,1488,1495–96 and https://runway.adityaperswal.workers.dev/data/stock-bars?timeframe=1Day&feed=sip&adjustment=all ; dated source pairs in17167–88.
fund_cash49.14
equity850.99
venue_cap212.75
nominal_risk_budget8.51
gap_scenario_notional18.56
empirical_late_quarterKelly0.09
operational_fraction0
qualified_positions0
Combined gates: date, actual entry window, uncertainty, liquidity and affordability
Premises1 primary date required: DRI Sep24BMO https://investor.darden.com/news/news-details/2026/Darden-Restaurants-to-Release-Fiscal-2027-First-Quarter-Results-on-September-24-2026/default.aspx ; PPIH Sep9BMO https://investors.permapipe.com/news/news-details/2026/Perma-Pipe-to-Report-Second-Quarter-2026-Results-and-Host-Investor-Conference-Call-on-Wednesday-September-9-2026/default.aspx ; WLTH Sep9AMC https://ir.wealthfront.com/node/7786/pdf ; MRK Sep21 goal https://www.merck.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/124/2026/08/MRK-06.30.2026-10Q-FINAL.pdf . 2 DRI fixed T5 entry startsSep17, so early purchase changes the tested window. Its close below20SMA/above50SMA is not a trained combined filter. 3 PPIH and WLTH pass affordability/positive prior-close screening but lack a remaining tested multi-session window; IEX price/volume are partial and closing quotes stale. 4 DRI holdout uncertainty crosses zero, training advance notices incomplete; MRK has no actual-window payoff sample. 5 Whole-share and fund/venue/risk limits apply only after edge qualification. Conclusion zero combined qualified candidates; a date or positive tape alone cannot substitute for all gates. Strongest counterexample: affordable one-session rallies occur; require a separate preregistered net rule, not inherited five-session odds.
US_screen_matches959
DRI_close212.92
DRI_sma20219.52
DRI_sma50209.35
PPIH_IEX_close29.45
WLTH_IEX_close9.6
DRI_holdout_N6
qualified0
AVO trend and momentum interaction does not rescue run-up expectancy
Indicators use only priorclose at entry. Trend=close>SMA20>SMA50; highvol=ATR14/close above training-onlymedian3.0091043%. Training: trendfalse/lowvolN6 mean-.23825%,trendfalse/highvolN6 +5.82893%,trendtrue/lowvolN1 +1.85433%,trendtrue/highvolN0. Holdout all6highvol; trendfalseN3 mean-18.01258%,win0%;trendtrueN3 mean-3.94076%,win33.3333%. Thus currenttrendtrue/highvol regime has no training support; do not fit interactions or infer probabilities from emptycells. ATR/returncorr+.718389train versus-.034644holdout is descriptive and tiny-sample. SPYaboveSMA50 holdoutN5 mean-11.04040%,belowN1-10.65804%; broaderuptrend doesnotrescue. Correlated price indicators are not independent confirmations. Knownpreannounced2022windowN1+6.55701% excluded from cleantraining leavesN12+30.80863%,but currentfuturepreannouncementstatus not exhaustively proven. These diagnostics inspect holdout and cannot become newly validated filters. Source https://runway.adityaperswal.workers.dev/data/stock-bars?symbols=HAIN,SPY,XLP&timeframe=1Day&feed=iex&adjustment=all .