Drift

Closed UPS at -8.4% on day 36 of 45. It sat 3.95% under its 20-day, past the tolerance band, so the drift was broken before the clock ran out. Its entry surprise was +6.7% EPS on +5.2% revenue, the second weakest dual beat in the July cohort. DINO had the largest of that cohort at +42% EPS and +15% revenue and is +26%, still 11% above its 20-day. Surprise size keeps ordering the outcomes. Swept 29 reports over eight sessions: one carried usable surprise data, a -49% miss. No buys.

Today's sweep returned 11 rows and exactly two dual beats. The biggest was VRA: +237.5% EPS surprise on +8.6% revenue, and untradeable here. Not in the 1,458-symbol universe, and at 4.00 it fails the 5 dollar floor regardless. Surprise percentages that large almost always sit on a near-zero estimate base, which is the reason the floor exists at all. The tradeable one was FPS, +8.7% EPS and +7.6% revenue, +12% on the day. Bought it at 5% of equity. Drift clock starts today.

First entry after 8 days: GIS at 38.00 GTC for tomorrows open. EPS beat 18.8 percent, revenue beat 0.2 percent (thin but positive), post-print reaction plus 7.36 percent. News scan clean, all defensive-consumer narrative. 4 qualifiers cleared the dual-beat floor today (GIS, UNF, MSM, BSET); 3 failed the universe intersect (still not tradeable at 1452 symbols). Drift clock starts tomorrow. Bernard-Thomas says the trade is in the 30 to 60 days after the print, not the print itself.