Companies are united in their belief that it’s best not to announce quarterly earnings results during trading hours.  About 95% of publicly held companies subscribe to that policy, according to new research.  Among those that do, there’s a fairly even split between earnings announced after the closing bell (i.e., before midnight, chosen by 53% of such […]

Financial firms commonly review trading activity after the fact to improve their execution strategies.  But what they’d really love to do is perform that in real time, pre-trade.  Max Bowie speaks with a number of industry executives — including TORA’s Gerrit Van Wingerden and Wall Street Horizon’s Michael Raines — about how far along market participants […]

Experts from across the world of research, technology and trading sectors have provided The TRADE with their predictions on what will happen in 2018.  Today the publication looks at the anticipated effects of MiFID II with Luminex, LiquidityBook and Wall Street Horizon: Luminex CEO Jonathan Clark’s prediction that 2018 will see overall block volume as a […]

There are two main reasons why alternative data often falls into the laps of technology officers.  Introducing new datasets and new types of data and feeds in new formats likely requires serious consideration from a technology and resources perspective, in addition to strategic decisions about the value of particular data from the investment team.  But […]

Event data provider Wall Street Horizon has released a new events alerting and analysis add-on component, dubbed EventBreaks, to its Enchilada event data product suite, which extends the analysis previously provided for earnings release dates to all event types covered by Enchilada.  Examples of event types that could impact a company’s stock price include changing […]

Writing in Traders Magazine, Wall Street Horizon CEO Barry Star says that companies use ‘verbal’ communication all the time to provide information to various audiences and constituencies.  It’s everything they say publicly, including quotes in their press releases, what their executives say on investor conference calls, what gets communicated internally to employees and what the […]

Nearly half of institutional investors have lost money or missed a trade because of incorrect or incomplete corporate event information, according to a new survey from alternative data provider Wall Street Horizon, with 40% experiencing five-figure losses on single trades.  The survey, which was conducted August 17-23, polled more than 100 institutional market participants, nearly […]

Finding Alpha Needles in Unstructured Data Haystacks By Barry L. Star, CEO, Wall Street Horizon The challenges of working with unstructured data came into sharp focus last year when a self-driving car was involved in a fatal crash on a Florida highway.  The National Transportation and Safety Board ultimately found that the driver-assistance system was […]

Corporate event data provider Wall Street Horizon has expanded its global dataset to include nearly 1,000 new companies, encompassing the constituents of all major European and Asian indices.  The company has offered a limited international data set on an a la carte basis since 2008, but the expansion means Wall Street Horizon’s full Enchilada platform […]