Alternative Data
3 research pieces on “Alternative Data” — quoted word-for-word from the filing, with a link back to the source
The 2024 northern floods surface in the filings of 27 listed companies — the wave the damage assessment never counted
The 2024 Northern Floods: The Economic Shock the Damage Assessment Could Not See
The state counted broken roads and ruined houses within days. Nobody counted the second wave — the orders that disappeared, the ad budgets cut, the investment deferred in provinces the water never reached. Read out of what 27 listed companies wrote in their own filings to the SEC.
Stop Guessing Which Sector Is Bleeding — Type the Symptom and See Who Raises a Hand
Stop Guessing Which Sector Is Bleeding — Type the Symptom and See Who Raises a Hand
By the time a research note concludes an industry is in trouble, the price has already moved, because news is what already happened. Management wrote it into the MD&A quarters earlier — and not alone. The whole industry wrote it at the same time. This is the institutional method for pulling macro signal out of the language companies write about themselves, worked through a live case: property developers flagging mortgage rejection rates in unison across years, plus a set of Thai query phrases with measured counts of how many companies each one surfaces. Every line quotes real filing text with page numbers and links to the SEC.
You Spend the Weekend on the Filings. The Funds Finished Trading Them Friday Afternoon — The Alpha Left for Retail Sits Where Machines Cannot Read
You Spend the Weekend on the Filings. The Funds Finished Trading Them Friday Afternoon — The Alpha Left for Retail Sits Where Machines Cannot Read
P/E · ROE · D/E · price charts — the data retail decides on is vacuumed into institutional models through an API and priced in the second a filing hits the system. Fighting on numbers is a battle lost at the rulebook. This is the battlefield that remains: what management writes in the Form 56-1, which is a PDF, has no API, and is buried in ritual language. Includes the PDG arc that runs from an admission it could not pass cost increases through to customers at all, to customers installing their own bottle-blowing machines — events that will never surface in a chart or a ratio. Plus the Quant API data structure and the four traps to clear before backtesting.