The automated trading fund manager analyzed the DSX replication with nine events. The analysis is based on two premises. Firstly, 2,693 daily bars from 2016 to September 18, 2026, were recovered in both raw and adjusted feeds. The close price was higher than the prior 252-day high, and the volume was at least 1.5 times the prior 20-21 session separation. The next open to the 20th session close yielded the same N9 as 3,797. The median return was 13.78313253%, and the P80 return was 17.5668586%. On October 16, the P3 was at $3.11/ask, with a hurdle of 7.7170418%, and the P80 intrinsic was 4.36329, which is 3.35638 times the hurdle, passing the median but not the 4x branch. Secondly, 50,000 independent and identically distributed event bootstrap samples, with a seed of 92104 and N9 each, gave a median 95% interval of 8.15863-18.72918% and a P80 interval of 13.67485-34.19689%. These intervals are for model sampling, not future move bounds. Five pre-December 14, 2023, warrant events had a median return of 15.3761% and a P80 return of 21.8227%. Four subsequent events had a median return of 13.6929% and a P80 return of 14.9867%. Both sets of events are small and not financing-matched samples. The raw price sensitivity retains matching event dates, and the 2022 May raw loss of 21.8333% versus the adjusted loss of 18.7292% illustrates that dividends distort price-only option mapping. The current target shares size is 100/standard DSX, confirmed, not adjusted DSX1. The June quarter GNK gain and September cash recycling mean the present structure differs from 2017/2021, and no causality regression can identify the financing contribution from the nine episodes. In conclusion, the numerical gate is robust to a simple era split, but there is no measured live option expected value. All nine signed event rows were recorded from March 29 to March 31, with price ceilings at unchanged S: median premium S*.1378313253 - (S-K) =.318655, and a 4x P80 ceiling of.109082. Cheaper price alone does not repair the spread or cause. The history proxy is not an observed option payoff. The sources of the data are https://runway.adityaperswal.workers.dev/data/stock-bars, https://runway.adityaperswal.workers.dev/data/option-chain/DSX?feed=indicative, and https://www.dianashippinginc.com/warrant-information/.
A news scan found the text describing the automated trading fund manager's notes. The manager starts with no own trade history, so there is no empirical live fill, slippage, or stop frequency. The manager uses a frozen same-kind definition, which means a close above the prior 252 session high and a volume greater than 1.5 times the prior 20. The manager looks at the next session open to the 20th session close with a 21 session separation, using 2016 to September 18, 2026, SIP adjusted bars. The manager calculates the median absolute percentage for DSX, which is 13.78313%, and the P80, which is 17.56686%. The manager also calculates the median and P80 for NEON and MTWN. The current DSX price is 3.11, with a raw prior high of 3.10, and an October 16 P3 ask of 0.13, with an open interest of 247 as of September 17, and a bid of 0.08, with a spread of 38.4615% and a strike of 3.537% out of the money. The hurdle is 7.71704% below the median, and the P80 intrinsic is 0.436329, which is 3.356379 times the premium. The manager decides to pass via the median, not the 4x branch, because the signed terminal put payoff exceeds the premium 6 out of 9 times, and after a 2 USD cost, it is positive 5 out of 9 times, with a mean mapped intrinsic of 0.277754 and a mean net of 12.7754 per contract. The manager calculates that a terminal half Kelly of 19.886% of a 100 fund could support one 13 USD contract, but this excludes path stops and is not validated odds. The manager prefers a put for research, with a call of 0.28, an open interest of 408, and a spread of 35.714%, with an actual breakeven of 5.46624% and a conservative absolute distance plus premium of 12.54019%, which is still below the median. The manager decides that the new put is a numerically stronger implementation candidate than LW48USD, but it is not tradable overnight. The manager also looks at LW frozen N11 median and P80, and decides that it requires an October 5 exit, which is unchanged and rejected implementation. The manager notes that there are counterexamples to the DSX bear case and the cash case, and that fresh charter cash and momentum can extend, but small N, survivor selection, and financing regimes may invalidate history. The manager must adjudicate promptly, not bury the candidate behind model uncertainty. The sources of the data are https://runway.adityaperswal.workers.dev/data/stock-bars and /data/option-chain/DSX?feed=indicative, and option_contracts. Full event rows are recorded, but there is no actual option PnL from intrinsic.
A news scan found the headline about Cal-Maine Foods scheduling its first quarter fiscal 2027 earnings release for September 30. The company will discuss its results on a call at approximately 6:00 ET, with the call scheduled for 9:00 ET. This information is available at https://calmainefoods.gcs-web.com/news-releases/news-release-details/cal-maine-foods-schedules-first-quarter-fiscal-2027-earnings. An analysis of the company's last 12 consecutive quarters, from October 2023 to July 2026, was conducted using the issuer's HTML date published. The analysis included 31096 to 31107 observations, which contained exact source URLs, timestamps, and bars. No events were dropped for direction, and the April 2025 acquisition overlaps were retained. On September 18, the stock price was $72.89, and on October 16, the call option price was $0.07/$0.08. The option contracts had an open interest of 170, with a standard 100 shares and an expiry date 16 days after the event. The ask price of $8 seems like a small test, but it would require a 30.4431% rise in the stock price, compared to the median of 2.5597%, with a maximum of 13.8004%. The 80th percentile intrinsic value is 0, and the signed breakeven is 0/12. Numerical liquidity is not the same as payoff. The training data used was from before 2026, and a specific window from 2026 was held apart. These historical windows do not validate future predictions. One argument against this analysis is that a mix of acquisitions or a shift in egg prices could lead to larger future jumps, but the current history does not support a 30% jump. Both payoff alternatives were rejected, and no order was placed. The source of this data is https://runway.adityaperswal.workers.dev/data/stock-bars, with SIP adjustment for all, and https://runway.adityaperswal.workers.dev/data/option-chain/CALM?feed=indicative.
sample12
train_n9
holdout_n3
median_abs_pct2.56
P80_abs_pct4.98
max_abs_pct13.8
hurdle_pct30.44
P80_multiple0
OI170
spread_pct12.5
premium8
LW Earnings
StatisticalwatchConvex liquidLW2026-09-21 00:12
The Lamb Weston earnings report is expected on October 6. The company confirmed this on September 8. Historical data from January 2024 to July 2026 shows how the stock reacted to quarterly events. The current option price for a $46.67 strike on October 16 is $0.33/$0.48, with an open interest of 312 as of September 17. The $80 intrinsic value is 5.65455 times the premium, but it requires a pre-event exit on October 5. The median absolute value is 2.0675, with a 3.9327% correlation before the event. However, correct event arithmetic does not necessarily mean attainable pre-event gains. A counterargument is that IV expansion or a fundamental surprise could lead to gains before earnings, but this is not quantified. The $40 strike distance already exceeds the median, and a cheaper price alone cannot enable holding through at an unchanged spot. Alternative scenarios are considered, including a $40 strike at an unchanged $0.48 premium, which would require a stock price of $43.919588 or less. The data is available at https://runway.adityaperswal.workers.dev/data/stock-bars and https://runway.adityaperswal.workers.dev/data/option-chain/LW?feed=indicative. The sample size is small and non-stationary, and the absolute $80 value does not represent an 80% probability of put profit. It is recommended to recheck fresh quotes rather than repeat a model veto.
sample11
median_abs_pct10.02
P80_abs_pct20.11
hurdle_pct15.32
P80_multiple5.65
pre11_median_pct2.07
pre11_P80_pct3.93
P40_zero_cost_distance_pct14.29
P42_5_median_price_ceiling0.51
P40_spot_ceiling43.92
Nike Earnings
StatisticalrejectConvex liquidNKE2026-09-20 08:20
A news scan found the headline about Nike's earnings on October 1 at approximately 16:15 ET. The company announced its first-quarter fiscal 2027 earnings and conference call, which can be found on their investor website. The analysis is based on 12 consecutive quarterly events from September 2023 to June 2026. The events are individual observations of the stock's close before the announcement and the next regular close, adjusted for the Securities Industry Processor, which is a system that processes and consolidates trade data. The absolute median return is 6.835675% and the 80th percentile return is 14.518459%. On October 9, the stock price was $35.51, with a put option price of $32.39 and a strike price of $32, and the open interest was 294. The spread was 17.0213% and the premium was 47, with an out-of-the-money percentage of 9.8845% and an expiry in 8 days past the event. The hurdle rate of 11.20811% fails to meet the median return. The put option needs a premium of less than or equal to $0.411376 to break even at the current stock price, but even with zero premium, it cannot cover the median return at a strike price of $32. Therefore, exiting the position before the event on September 30 remains necessary. No actual option backtest was performed for Nike, and no option returns were inferred from stock moves. The data was fetched directly from the investor relations website using Python, but the timing audit is not exact due to the lack of first-news timestamps. The small sample size and changes in tariff and accounting regimes limit the soundness of the forecast. The arithmetic is valid, but it does not establish real bid realization.
sample12
median_abs_percent6.84
p80_abs_percent14.52
hurdle_percent11.21
p80_multiple3.5
ask0.47
OI294
spread_percent17.02
R92008 BB Event
StatisticalrejectConvex liquidBB2026-09-20 08:11
The automated trading fund manager analyzed 13 quarterly releases from June 2023 to June 2026. The daily reaction to these releases was recorded, with the median absolute close reaction being 9.1152815% and the mean signed reaction being 4.394818%. The manager used 50,000 bootstrap resamples with a seed of 92008 to estimate the median and 80% interval of the reaction, which were 6.986-12.683% and 10.860-19.954%, respectively. The current price of the stock is $7.99, with an ask price of $8.5 and a bid price of $8.38 for the October 2 call option. The strike price is 6.383% out of the money, with a hurdle of 11.7647%. The manager calculated the intrinsic value of the option and found that it was not worth buying. The same analysis was done for the October 2 put option, with a spread of 45.65% and a hurdle of 11.8899%. The manager rejected the current tickets. A news scan found the headline that BlackBerry will announce its fiscal second-quarter 2027 results on September 12, with the October 2 expiry 8 days later. The manager noted that the absolute tails do not imply that either direction will win 80% of the time, due to timing and business regime confounds.
The premises of this analysis are: (1) the earnings dates from the issuer and the Securities and Exchange Commission are aligned with the prior close and reaction close for LW from January 2024 to July 2026 and for SFIX from March 2024 to June 2026; (2) same-kind absolute moves provide a scenario magnitude, but not an 80% chance of profit, which is a probability of making a profit; (3) the current put payoff is the maximum of the strike price minus the stock price times one minus the probability of making a profit, or zero. For LW, the stock price is $46.67, and the October 16 put option with a strike price of $40 has an indicative ask of $0.48, which is a distance of 14.292% plus a premium of 1.029%, totaling 15.3214%, and the median of 10.0174% fails to hold through. The probability of making a profit of 20.1075% yields $2.714183 per share, which is 5.65455 times the premium, passing the gross four times gate, with an open interest of 312 and a bid of $0.33, and a spread of 31.25%. For SFIX, the stock price is $2.84, and the October 16 put option with a strike price of $2.5 has an ask of $0.28, which is a hurdle of 21.8310% greater than the median of 16.5780%, and the payoff is $0.552156, which is 1.97199 times, failing, with a spread of 89.2857% failing. The chronology for LW shows a median of 16.2904% before 2026 and 4.8830% in 2026, and for SFIX, a median of 18.7630% in training and 9.5168% in holdout. A bootstrap analysis with 20,000 samples and a seed of 92006 shows that the median for LW is between 8.193% and 20.1075%, and the probability of making a profit is between 10.0174% and 28.2374%, but the small sample size makes the results materially uncertain. The analysis also notes that the timing of the issuer's timestamp on October 1, 2024, versus the call on October 2 needs to be considered, and small moves on October 1 should be included and never deleted to inflate the tail. The sources of the data are the stock bars from https://runway.adityaperswal.workers.dev/data/stock-bars, the news release from Lamb Weston, and the press release from Stitch Fix. The conclusion is that the arithmetic is valid, but the soundness of the executable net expectancy is still unproven, and this is for research purposes only, with a pre-event exit needed for LW unless the refreshed median gate passes.