Corporate Jet Executive Travel
In plain terms
Tracks corporate aircraft in the air via OpenSky live snapshots (the successor data feed after ADS-B Exchange went paywalled). When a ticker's jets cluster their airborne days, something is happening at the company — go long for a short event window.
How it works
Corporate jet airborne-day clusters (>=2 days in 7d) on ticker-mapped aircraft (OpenSky icao24 joined to corporate_jets_lookup) signal unusual executive travel — historically associated with M&A, regulatory briefings, board meetings, and management distraction events. Short-event-window long captures the price response on the resolution.
Data dependencies
- Daily prices
Adjusted-close OHLCV for every US-listed ticker; primary price feed.
- Corporate jet state vectors
A data feed this strategy reads, refreshed on its normal schedule.
- Corporate jets lookup
A data feed this strategy reads, refreshed on its normal schedule.
Expected edge
- Reported return
- 50-200 bps
- Tested over
- T+1 to T+10d
50-200 bps over 5-10d on the event-window long.
Example tickers where this is likely to fire
Illustrative only, the signal fires based on the live data, not a fixed list.
Related families
Corporate jet flies to unusual city → possible M&A coming.
When a corporate jet flies multiple times over a weekend or holiday, something urgent is happening — go long the short event window.
If multiple companies' corporate jets land at the same airport within 48 hours and yours is one of them, an M&A is likely brewing. We buy the target's stock and hold for two to four weeks.
When an acquirer's corporate jet visits the target's HQ region, the target's stock tends to outperform over 2-4 weeks.
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