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Faers Peer Class Rotation
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paper
2024
Source
Industry mechanism: adverse-event spike in one drug rotates prescriptions to same-indication peers.
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In plain terms
When a peer drug has a safety event, patients rotate to focal's same-indication drug.
How it works
Peer-basket FAERS severity z over 252d (peers = same indication as focal). Spike triggers rotation to focal.
Live results
0 times picked on its own · 4 times inside a blend (3 beat the stock) · updated 2026-06-06This strategy is a frequent ingredient in blends that combine a few strategies on one stock. It has contributed to 4 such blended picks (3 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
- Faers adverse events
A data feed this strategy reads, refreshed on its normal schedule.
- Faers drug severity daily
A data feed this strategy reads, refreshed on its normal schedule.
- Daily prices
Adjusted-close OHLCV for every US-listed ticker; primary price feed.
Expected edge
- Reported return
- ~3-7%/yr
- Reported Sharpe
- ~0.5
- Tested over
- T+1 to T+63d
Same-indication rotation ~3-7%/yr cross-section.
Example tickers where this is likely to fire
Illustrative only, the signal fires based on the live data, not a fixed list.
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