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SMH Lens — Admission + Multi-Estimand CAR

Registered protocol da44ba9fae79 (SMH multi-estimand CAR v1) · method 5bff6b284b05c718 · registry-first: protocol locked before computation · built 2026-08-01 02:57 UTC

Disclaimer — Hypothetical research illustration. Not investment advice, not performance advertising. Research classifications, not recommendations. Coverage and evidence statistics on the covered sleeve only — not a full-fund inference. Research & education only.
Admission verdict
standard: yuclaw_etf_lens v1 thresholds · holdings as of 2026-07-03
MEASURED
lens label
7.14
effective issuers (inverse HHI)
12
covered issuers
67.15%
covered weight
100%
price coverage

MATURE reserved — requires externally replicated results under a versioned standard

Coverage anatomy
identity check: covered 67.15% + uncovered 32.85% = 100.00%
19.01%
top-1 covered (NVDA)
33.99%
top-3 covered
44.66%
top-5 covered
7.14
effective covered issuers
Uncovered — reasonWeightNames
US filer outside the 79-ticker scored universe32.86%13
foreign private issuer (6-K / 20-F substrate; ingestible via the Canada-vertical 6-K/40-F path — coverage decision pending)0.00%0
not disclosed in the free holdings listing-0.01%1
Breadth — covered sleeve by research state
share of covered weight per locked signal label · evidence freshness split
12.9%
weight with evidence ≤ 7d old
10.6%
weight with evidence > 30d old
Research state (locked label)Share of covered weight
WATCH12.0%
WEAKENING88.0%
TickerSMH weightStateEvidence age (days)
NVDA19.01%WEAKENING30
AMD5.58%WEAKENING15
MU5.34%WEAKENING4
AMAT5.33%WEAKENING31
INTC4.88%WATCH9
LRCX4.68%WEAKENING18
MRVL4.27%WEAKENING16
ARM1.15%WATCH3

Research classifications, not recommendations.

Multi-estimand direction-aligned CAR at τ=+20 · backfill era (the adverse-headline sample)
peer model · n=58 events · 11 issuers · 28 dates · B=4000, seed 20260723 · live era n=45 (disclosed, too small for standalone inference)
EstimandMean CARNaive CIIssuer-cluster CIDate-cluster CIConservative envelopeBadge
E1 event-weighted (each event counts once)-10.17%(-15.98, -4.37)(-15.60, -3.00)(-16.59, -5.11)(-16.59, -3.00)PRELIMINARY
E2 issuer-weighted (each issuer counts once)-5.15%(-12.11, +1.82)(-10.85, +0.24)(-12.54, -1.29)(-12.54, +0.24)DESCRIPTIVE
E3 ETF-weighted (fund weight, renormalized to sleeve)-5.15%(-13.52, +3.21)(-11.04, -0.20)(-12.56, -0.32)(-12.56, -0.20)PRELIMINARY
E4 capped-ETF-weighted (issuer cap 20% of sleeve) — PRIMARY-5.68%(-13.44, +2.08)(-11.94, -0.01)(-13.09, -1.75)(-13.09, -0.01)PRELIMINARY

Does the adverse result survive issuer weighting? Issuer-weighted (E2) envelope (-12.54, +0.24): the envelope includes zero — under issuer weighting the adverse result is not distinguishable from zero at this sample; it does NOT clearly survive issuer weighting. Primary endpoint E4 (capped-ETF-weighted) envelope (-13.09, -0.01): adverse and excludes zero under the conservative envelope. Envelope = wider of the issuer-/date-cluster bootstrap CIs; the formal CGM two-way interval is reported beside it in the table.

Falsification battery · SMH E4 estimand
protocol df92008643c8 · N=1000 per null · seed 20260727 · registered before computation
TestReal valueNull mean ± sdNull 2.5–97.5%Percentile of real in null
Event-date shuffle (PRIMARY) -5.68% -6.97% ± 2.69 (-12.08, -1.59) 0.697
Direction sign-flip -5.68% -0.07% ± 3.13 (-6.11, +6.01) 0.036
Pre-event placebo (−20d) +6.24% located in the date-shuffle null · 20 of 58 events dropped (shifted day0 pre-dates usable estimation history — disclosed) 1.000

Reading: the real E4 value sits at the 70% point of its own event-date-shuffle null — unremarkable. The null's mean is itself deeply negative (-6.97%): under this era's melt-up, sell-direction alignment is negative on randomly chosen days for these issuers, so the adverse headline appears to be era-generic direction alignment rather than event-timing information. The placebo window (+6.24% at −20d) is consistent with that reading. Extremity is read two-sided: percentiles near 0 and near 100 are both extreme. Exploratory; every cell ledger-counted under Falsification Battery v1.

Sale-type decomposition · discretionary vs plan (registered)
protocol d82ad02068b1 · registered before computation · two-sided extremity, exploratory beyond the primary
Class (backfill era)n event-daysE4 CAR +20dEnvelopeBadgeDate-shuffle percentile
S · discretionary11-3.77%(-22.16, +10.05)UNDERPOWERED0.844 (null -13.15±8.41)
S · Rule 10b5-1 plan17-15.89%(-31.03, -3.48)UNDERPOWERED0.148 (null -9.79±5.87)
discretionary − plan+12.12pp(-8.45, +25.07)envelope includes 0

The decisive cell: the discretionary class sits at the 84% point of its own date-shuffle null — no evidence that discretionary selling carries timing information that plan selling lacks, at this sample. Point estimates even run the other way (plan more adverse than discretionary in the backfill era), with every interval UNDERPOWERED and the difference envelope spanning zero — thin-but-honest. All-era sensitivity: discretionary -1.62% (shuffle 0.433), plan -2.81% (shuffle 0.433). F/M-mechanical class: 0 events — structurally empty at event level: ingestion keeps P/S codes only, so F/M/A-only filings never became events. Class = S-mass dollar majority per event day (filing-level 10b5-1 checkbox); unclassified days: 0.

Pre-event momentum conditioning (registered)
protocol dfee13621c33 · median split by prior issuer-vs-peer relative momentum · registered before computation
WindowMedian rel-momentumOutperformed half · E4Underperformed half · E4DifferenceEnvelope
prior 60d (PRIMARY diff)+8.9%-9.66% (n=21)-7.27% (n=21)-2.40pp(-19.98, +14.07)
prior 20d+14.3%-18.30% (n=22)-5.63% (n=23)-12.67pp(-25.74, +1.75)

Reading: the registered primary (W=60 difference) is inconclusive — the envelope spans zero. The secondary cross-lens picture is more coherent: at W=60 the outperformed-minus-underperformed difference is negative in every lens (XEG -9.1pp (excludes 0) · ZEO -2.9pp (includes 0) · GDX -5.2pp (excludes 0) · URNM -6.9pp (excludes 0)), i.e. prior-60-day winners systematically deliver more adverse aligned CARs than prior losers across unrelated sectors — consistent with a market-wide 60-day reversal structure, not event-specific information. The pattern vanishes at W=20. Secondary cells are exploratory and ledger-counted; extremity is read two-sided.

Evidence structure
protocol 34ed4732b6e6 · registered before computation · seed 20260730
513
filings
81
deduped events
3
stories (linked clusters)
54.4
effective evidence count
Story sizeEvent massDominant issuerDominant typeSpan
7795.1%MRVLINSIDER_SELL65d
22.5%INTCEXEC_CHANGE2d
22.5%NVDAEXEC_CHANGE1d

Many events, fewer stories — statistics on this page use cluster-aware inference accordingly. Linkage rule (pre-committed): same issuer within 5 trading days, or same type and lens within 3. Story-level design effect 1.49 (issuer-level effective count 92.6); with only 3 stories the story-level variance read is itself thin — both structure and variance are shown rather than choosing one. Top story carries 95.1% of event mass. Investment implication: none established — no buy, sell, or alpha conclusion is supported by this page.

Context robustness
protocol cd0497d1a10b · pre-declared grid · registered before computation
Context cellE4 estimateCluster CIn/GBadge
k=5 (backfill)-2.42%(-8.01, +1.09)45/8DESCRIPTIVE
k=10 (backfill)-5.78%(-11.64, -1.67)45/8PRELIMINARY
k=20 backfill (base)-5.88%(-13.28, +2.01)45/8DESCRIPTIVE
k=60 (backfill only)-12.31%(-30.93, +7.66)24/7UNDERPOWERED
trend>=0 (k=20 bf)empty — SPY history begins 2026-02-02, so a trailing-120-trading-day window is not computable at these event dates (own-data rule; cell reported, not estimated)
trend<0 (k=20 bf)empty — SPY history begins 2026-02-02, so a trailing-120-trading-day window is not computable at these event dates (own-data rule; cell reported, not estimated)
vol-high (k=20 bf)-5.02%(-21.18, +6.75)23/7UNDERPOWERED
vol-low (k=20 bf)-7.01%(-13.70, +1.18)22/8DESCRIPTIVE
era: live (k=20)+4.60%(-8.22, +18.01)34/8DESCRIPTIVE

Sign held in 6/7 computed cells · CI excluded zero in 1/7 · breaks in: era: live (k=20) · UNDERPOWERED cells: k=60 (backfill only), vol-high (k=20 bf). Context grid pre-declared at registration; every cell ledger-counted. 449 secondary cells ledgered registry-wide; expected false positives at alpha=0.05: 22.45. Investment implication: none established — no buy, sell, or alpha conclusion is supported by this page.

Matched-control-adjusted E4 (pairs fixed at the +20 selection) (secondary cells, same grid): sign held 5/5 (coherence 1.0) · breaks: none · empty (SPY-history bound): trend<0 (k=20), trend>=0 (k=20).

Evidence lifecycle
protocol e02bd40cc884 · display-only diffusion read · registered before computation
Event type (pooled, backfill era)nPeak dayPeak |CAR|Half-life
OTHER_MATERIAL236206.521%not reached within window
INSIDER_SELL312019.847%not reached within window
DIVIDEND_CHANGE27195.304%not reached within window
EXEC_CHANGE26208.265%not reached within window
GUIDANCE_RAISE17209.328%not reached within window

Median time-to-peak across qualifying types: 20 trading days — at the window edge for every qualifying type, with no half-life reached. An absolute cumulative path rises mechanically with horizon, so this pattern is what no-decay looks like under this estimator; it is not evidence of late-arriving impact. Types below the n≥15 floor, listed not plotted: M_AND_A_CLOSE (n=13), BUYBACK_ANNOUNCE (n=13), M_AND_A_ANNOUNCE (n=11), CAPACITY_CHANGE (n=10), REGULATORY_ACTION (n=9), EARNINGS_BEAT (n=9), PARTNERSHIP (n=5), GUIDANCE_CUT (n=1). Evidence freshness (this sleeve): median age 14d, 37.5% within 7d, 0.0% older than 30d. Investment implication: none established — no buy, sell, or alpha conclusion is supported by this page.

Form-4 transaction taxonomy · covered sleeve
deterministic XML parse of 607 ingested filings (0 fetch/parse failures disclosed) · display-only · built 2026-07-27 01:42 UTC
Code classTransactionsShare$ mass (non-deriv rows)
S · discretionary open-market sale9115.6%$734,841,227
S · Rule 10b5-1 plan sale35861.3%$590,052,676
F · tax-withholding disposition (mechanical)295.0%$126,803,074
M · option exercise / conversion (mechanical)8614.7%
A · award / grant (mechanical)142.4%
other codes61.0%
Top-3 covered issuers by ingested events
TickerIngested events… plan-flaggedS discretionaryS 10b5-1F withholdingM+A mechanical
MU160154615900
AMD8782483113
LRCX5146547014

The sharpest OIE question, first cut: of the covered sleeve's S-coded sale transactions, 91 are discretionary open-market and 358 carry the filing-level Rule 10b5-1 checkbox; 129 further transactions are mechanical (F withholding, M exercise, A grants). By dollar mass, discretionary S = $734,841,227 vs plan S = $590,052,676. Zero LLM involvement, zero scoring-path contact — C6 inputs untouched.

Live maturity funnel · covered sleeve
review §16 · live-era pipeline stages through today
StageCount
Live filings polled (events_raw, covered tickers)127
Candidate events since forward Day 0 (2026-05-18)329
Accepted329
Deduped (ticker · type · direction · day)73
Direction-classified (direction ≠ 0)62
Completed +5d windows58
Completed +10d windows54
Completed +20d windows44
Distinct issuers (directional)11
Distinct event dates (directional)39
Minimum clusters for live-era standalone inference (locked badge floors) vs current
RequirementCurrent / requiredStatus
events with +20d window44 / 10met
distinct issuers11 / 8met
distinct event dates39 / 10met

Counts are point-in-time reads of the live pipeline; the live era is never blended with the backfill era in any statistic.

Holdings intelligence
review §20 · provenance and freshness of the constituent snapshot
Holdings as-of date (issuer disclosure)2026-07-03
Retrieved into the evidence store2026-07-05
Snapshot age today29 days
Disclosed holdings / weight25 names · 100.01%

Renormalization statement: posture and E3/E4 estimand weights renormalize issuer fund weights over the covered 67.15% sleeve only; no statistic on this page weights by full-fund share. Constituent weights are dated issuer disclosures, not market data.

Rounding footnote (per disposition): the issuer's disclosed weights sum to 100.01%, so the undisclosed residual computes to -0.01% — shown as measured, an artifact of the issuer's two-decimal rounding, not a data error.

Cross-ETF issuer map
membership overlap · Canada lenses + sector-ETF holdings snapshots
IssuerSMHXEGZEOGDXURNM
CNQ24.497.21
CVE12.889.15
IMO6.548.1
SU25.278.21
WCPRF4.718.42
SMH ↔ XLK issuer overlap (issuer-disclosed daily holdings, v5.2 ingestion) — 20 shared issuers, top 8
IssuerSMH weightXLK weight
NVDA19.01%13.75%
AVGO5.61%5.24%
AMD5.58%3.99%
MU5.34%3.43%
AMAT5.33%2.53%
INTC4.88%2.82%
KLAC4.73%1.62%
LRCX4.68%2.30%

Sector-ETF holdings snapshots now cover 13 SPDR funds (issuer disclosures, dated; derived statistics only). Pilot admission read for XLK: EXPLORATORY, 11/76 names covered (54.6% of weight), effective issuers 5.58. Remaining disclosure gaps, stated: IBB (different issuer endpoint) — nothing estimated in the meantime.

Research questions
hypothesis registry · append-only chain entries
Research questionStatusLinked protocolsGrounds
Does insider-sale evidence carry near-term directional information on covered names?RETIRED15052741ba2a, 271e52f494c7, df92008643c8, d82ad02068b1, dfee13621c33date-shuffle null places the E4 estimand at its 62nd percentile — era-generic alignment, not event timing (df92008643c8); discretionary-sale class shows no timing information either (shuffle percentile 0.844; d82ad02068b1); W=60 momentum conditioning attributes the era effect to a cross-lens reversal structure (dfee13621c33)
Is the W=60 winners-minus-losers reversal pattern coherent across lenses on unseen forward accrual?OPENea120b0a6b52exploratory origin dfee13621c33; confirmation guarded to >= 2026-09-01 on accrual from 2026-07-27; 2026-08-01 annotation: now the confirming read for the umbrella question 'reversal-structure-dominance' (three converging observations recorded pre-confirmation)
Is short-horizon reversal structure the dominant signal in this era?OPENe3de3a240410, 8a1df3604cc7, dfee13621c33, ea120b0a6b52observation 1: the persistence baseline beats the composite at k=5 (+0.0546 vs +0.0316, clustered CI excludes zero; e3de3a240410); observation 2: STRONG_BULLISH is anti-calibrated at k=20 (consistency 0.09, mean excess -10.4%; 8a1df3604cc7); observation 3: the W=60 winners-minus-losers lead is negative across all five lenses (dfee13621c33); convergence recorded 2026-08-01, BEFORE the pre-registered Sept-1 confirming read (ea120b0a6b52) — the pattern was seen before the confirmation, not after

Question lifecycle is append-only in the registry chain: hypotheses come from exploration, confirmation runs on data that does not exist yet, retirements cite their grounds. Investment implication: none established — no buy, sell, or alpha conclusion is supported by this page.

Provenance
registry-first discipline

Protocol: da44ba9fae79 locked 2026-07-31 · method hash 5bff6b284b05c718
Primary endpoint: E4 capped-ETF-weighted mean CAR at tau=+20d, backfill era, conservative envelope (two-way beside; inherited)
Run recorded: registry line 182c8637e5202266 · events 557 filings → 162 deduped → 140 with estimation window → 103 directional with complete τ=+20 path
Chain: verified at build time. Registered before computation on real lens data.

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