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Convertible Refinancing Distress

Updated dailyData needs: mediumshort only

2024

Industry mechanism: 8-K (1.01 material agreement + 2.03 financial obligation) cluster = convertible note issuance / debt refinancing / distressed exchange.

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In plain terms

When a firm files an 8-K announcing both a material agreement and a new debt obligation in the same window, it usually marks a convertible bond or distressed refi - bearish for equity.

How it works

8-K items 1.01 + 2.03 within 10 days = convert/refi cluster. +2.04 within 30d = covenant-trigger amplifier.

Live results

0 times picked on its own · 6 times inside a blend (6 beat the stock) · updated 2026-07-06

This strategy is a frequent ingredient in blends that combine a few strategies on one stock. It has contributed to 6 such blended picks (6 of which beat simply holding the stock). Picking it on its own is only one of the ways it shows up.

How its picks scored vs. buy & hold

Each pick is graded on a recent year it was never tuned on, against simply owning the same stock

Where its edge concentrates

Share of picks in each company-size group that beat buy & hold

How often it trades

Active vs. patient. Bars on the left mean it waits for rare setups; bars on the right mean it trades often

Return vs. buy & hold

How much each pick beat or trailed simply owning the stock over the test year (extreme microcap moves trimmed)

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Data dependencies

SEC 8k events
Item-coded 8-K events (1.01 material agreements, 4.02 non-reliance, etc.).
Daily prices
Adjusted-close OHLCV for every US-listed ticker; primary price feed.

Expected edge

Reported return: ~5-15% per event
Reported Sharpe: ~0.5
Tested over: T+1 to T+180d

Convert/refi events ~5-15% drift down for distressed small-caps.

Example tickers where this is likely to fire

NVAX MRNA TSLA REGN NVDA

Illustrative only, the signal fires based on the live data, not a fixed list.

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