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signal-platform/scripts/import_dolthub_earnings.py
dennisthiessenandClaude Fable 5 c7c60a64f2 research: Task 2 closed — SUE dead, earnings gap informational
Earnings backfill sourced from the public DoltHub earnings repo at a
pinned commit rather than the FMP API: reproducible for anyone re-running
the study, and it burns no request quota. 12,414 events, 98.6% of symbols
with >=8 announcements, 99.2% paired actual/estimate, no keyed duplicates.

2a earnings-gap diagnostic: INFORMATIONAL, no filter shipped. The
pre-earnings cohort's right tail was better, so the registered
avoid-earnings condition failed. Note the raw 23/266 vs 115/574 incidence
gap is largely a duration confound -- severe losses stop out fast and have
less time to span an announcement -- so it is not evidence that holding
through earnings is safe.

2b SUE: FAIL against the pre-registered +0.03 bar (unconditional IC
+0.0151 over 56 reliable windows, momentum-conditional +0.0213). Signs
stable across eras, so this is a clean null rather than an ambiguous one,
consistent with post-earnings drift having decayed in large caps.

Closes the Tier-1 arc: Task 1 dead on deep evidence, Task 2 dead here,
Task 3 complete as diagnostic. No in-sample research thread remains open.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-20 21:10:46 +02:00

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"""Import the public post-no-preference/earnings DoltHub database.
The earnings calendar and EPS history are separate tables in the source. This
importer aligns them monotonically per symbol, keeps every calendar event for
the defensive gap study, and stores the longer EPS history separately for SUE
scaling. EPS history without an announcement date is never exposed as a live
signal event.
"""
from __future__ import annotations
import argparse
import csv
import json
import math
import sqlite3
from collections import defaultdict
from datetime import date, datetime, timedelta, timezone
from pathlib import Path
from typing import Any
EVENTS_DDL = """
CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS earnings_events (
id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY,
symbol TEXT NOT NULL,
announce_date TEXT NOT NULL,
announce_time TEXT,
eps_estimate REAL,
eps_actual REAL,
revenue_estimate REAL,
revenue_actual REAL,
source TEXT NOT NULL,
fetched_at TEXT NOT NULL,
period_end_date TEXT,
UNIQUE(symbol, announce_date)
)
"""
META_DDL = """
CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS earnings_backfill_meta (
symbol TEXT PRIMARY KEY,
status TEXT NOT NULL,
n_events INTEGER NOT NULL DEFAULT 0,
updated_at TEXT NOT NULL,
note TEXT
)
"""
SURPRISE_HISTORY_DDL = """
CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS earnings_surprise_history (
symbol TEXT NOT NULL,
period_end_date TEXT NOT NULL,
eps_estimate REAL,
eps_actual REAL,
source TEXT NOT NULL,
fetched_at TEXT NOT NULL,
PRIMARY KEY(symbol, period_end_date)
)
"""
SKIP_EVENT_COST = 45.0
SKIP_PERIOD_COST = 45.0
def _parse_args() -> argparse.Namespace:
parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description=__doc__)
parser.add_argument("--snapshot", default="backtest_snapshots/prod.sqlite")
parser.add_argument("--calendar-csv", required=True)
parser.add_argument("--history-csv", required=True)
parser.add_argument("--from-date", default="2020-01-22")
parser.add_argument("--to-date", required=True)
parser.add_argument("--source-commit", required=True)
parser.add_argument(
"--source-url",
default="https://www.dolthub.com/repositories/post-no-preference/earnings",
)
parser.add_argument("--max-period-lag-days", type=int, default=90)
parser.add_argument("--max-period-lead-days", type=int, default=14)
parser.add_argument(
"--status-output", default="reports/earnings-backfill-status.json"
)
return parser.parse_args()
def _normalise_symbol(value: Any) -> str:
return str(value or "").strip().upper().replace(".", "-")
def _normalise_session(value: Any) -> str | None:
cleaned = str(value or "").strip().lower().replace("_", " ").replace("-", " ")
aliases = {
"before market open": "bmo",
"before open": "bmo",
"bmo": "bmo",
"after market close": "amc",
"after close": "amc",
"amc": "amc",
"during market hours": "during",
"dmh": "during",
}
return aliases.get(cleaned, cleaned or None)
def _number(value: Any) -> float | None:
if value is None or str(value).strip() == "":
return None
try:
result = float(value)
except (TypeError, ValueError):
return None
return result if math.isfinite(result) else None
def _read_calendar(
path: Path,
universe: set[str],
start: date,
end: date,
) -> tuple[dict[str, list[dict[str, Any]]], dict[str, int]]:
by_key: dict[tuple[str, date], dict[str, Any]] = {}
raw_rows = 0
universe_rows = 0
duplicate_rows = 0
restated_rows = 0
with path.open(newline="", encoding="utf-8-sig") as handle:
for raw in csv.DictReader(handle):
raw_rows += 1
symbol = _normalise_symbol(raw.get("act_symbol"))
raw_date = str(raw.get("date") or "")[:10]
if symbol not in universe or not raw_date:
continue
event_date = date.fromisoformat(raw_date)
if not start <= event_date <= end:
continue
universe_rows += 1
row = {
"symbol": symbol,
"announce_date": event_date,
"announce_time": _normalise_session(raw.get("when")),
}
key = (symbol, event_date)
previous = by_key.get(key)
if previous is not None:
duplicate_rows += 1
if (
previous.get("announce_time") is not None
and row.get("announce_time") is not None
and previous["announce_time"] != row["announce_time"]
):
restated_rows += 1
if row.get("announce_time") is not None:
by_key[key] = row
else:
by_key[key] = row
grouped: dict[str, list[dict[str, Any]]] = defaultdict(list)
for row in by_key.values():
grouped[row["symbol"]].append(row)
for rows in grouped.values():
rows.sort(key=lambda item: item["announce_date"])
return grouped, {
"raw_rows": raw_rows,
"universe_rows_in_window": universe_rows,
"deduped_rows_in_window": len(by_key),
"duplicate_rows": duplicate_rows,
"restated_rows": restated_rows,
}
def _read_history(
path: Path, universe: set[str]
) -> tuple[dict[str, list[dict[str, Any]]], dict[str, int]]:
by_key: dict[tuple[str, date], dict[str, Any]] = {}
raw_rows = 0
universe_rows = 0
duplicate_rows = 0
restated_rows = 0
fields = ("eps_actual", "eps_estimate")
with path.open(newline="", encoding="utf-8-sig") as handle:
for raw in csv.DictReader(handle):
raw_rows += 1
symbol = _normalise_symbol(raw.get("act_symbol"))
raw_date = str(raw.get("period_end_date") or "")[:10]
if symbol not in universe or not raw_date:
continue
universe_rows += 1
period_end = date.fromisoformat(raw_date)
row = {
"symbol": symbol,
"period_end_date": period_end,
"eps_actual": _number(raw.get("reported")),
"eps_estimate": _number(raw.get("estimate")),
}
key = (symbol, period_end)
previous = by_key.get(key)
if previous is not None:
duplicate_rows += 1
if any(
previous.get(field) is not None
and row.get(field) is not None
and previous[field] != row[field]
for field in fields
):
restated_rows += 1
previous_score = sum(previous.get(field) is not None for field in fields)
row_score = sum(row.get(field) is not None for field in fields)
if row_score >= previous_score:
by_key[key] = row
else:
by_key[key] = row
grouped: dict[str, list[dict[str, Any]]] = defaultdict(list)
for row in by_key.values():
grouped[row["symbol"]].append(row)
for rows in grouped.values():
rows.sort(key=lambda item: item["period_end_date"])
return grouped, {
"raw_rows": raw_rows,
"universe_rows": universe_rows,
"deduped_rows": len(by_key),
"duplicate_rows": duplicate_rows,
"restated_rows": restated_rows,
}
def _match_cost(event: dict[str, Any], period: dict[str, Any]) -> float:
delta = (event["announce_date"] - period["period_end_date"]).days
missing_session_penalty = 3.0 if event.get("announce_time") is None else 0.0
return float(abs(delta - 30)) + missing_session_penalty
def _align_symbol(
events: list[dict[str, Any]],
periods: list[dict[str, Any]],
*,
max_lag_days: int,
max_lead_days: int,
) -> tuple[list[tuple[int, int]], list[int], list[int]]:
"""Return a minimum-cost monotonic calendar-to-period alignment."""
n_events = len(events)
n_periods = len(periods)
scores = [[0.0] * (n_periods + 1) for _ in range(n_events + 1)]
choices = [[""] * (n_periods + 1) for _ in range(n_events + 1)]
for event_index in range(n_events - 1, -1, -1):
scores[event_index][n_periods] = (
scores[event_index + 1][n_periods] + SKIP_EVENT_COST
)
choices[event_index][n_periods] = "event"
for period_index in range(n_periods - 1, -1, -1):
scores[n_events][period_index] = (
scores[n_events][period_index + 1] + SKIP_PERIOD_COST
)
choices[n_events][period_index] = "period"
for event_index in range(n_events - 1, -1, -1):
for period_index in range(n_periods - 1, -1, -1):
options = [
(
scores[event_index + 1][period_index] + SKIP_EVENT_COST,
2,
"event",
),
(
scores[event_index][period_index + 1] + SKIP_PERIOD_COST,
1,
"period",
),
]
delta = (
events[event_index]["announce_date"]
- periods[period_index]["period_end_date"]
).days
if -max_lead_days <= delta <= max_lag_days:
options.append(
(
scores[event_index + 1][period_index + 1]
+ _match_cost(events[event_index], periods[period_index]),
0,
"match",
)
)
score, _, choice = min(options)
scores[event_index][period_index] = score
choices[event_index][period_index] = choice
matches: list[tuple[int, int]] = []
unmatched_events: list[int] = []
unmatched_periods: list[int] = []
event_index = 0
period_index = 0
while event_index < n_events or period_index < n_periods:
if event_index >= n_events:
unmatched_periods.extend(range(period_index, n_periods))
break
if period_index >= n_periods:
unmatched_events.extend(range(event_index, n_events))
break
choice = choices[event_index][period_index]
if choice == "match":
matches.append((event_index, period_index))
event_index += 1
period_index += 1
elif choice == "period":
unmatched_periods.append(period_index)
period_index += 1
else:
unmatched_events.append(event_index)
event_index += 1
return matches, unmatched_events, unmatched_periods
def _ensure_schema(connection: sqlite3.Connection) -> None:
connection.execute(EVENTS_DDL)
columns = {
str(row[1])
for row in connection.execute("PRAGMA table_info(earnings_events)")
}
if "period_end_date" not in columns:
connection.execute("ALTER TABLE earnings_events ADD COLUMN period_end_date TEXT")
connection.execute(META_DDL)
connection.execute(SURPRISE_HISTORY_DDL)
def _main() -> None:
args = _parse_args()
snapshot = Path(args.snapshot)
calendar_csv = Path(args.calendar_csv)
history_csv = Path(args.history_csv)
for path in (snapshot, calendar_csv, history_csv):
if not path.exists():
raise SystemExit(f"Missing input: {path}")
start = date.fromisoformat(args.from_date)
end = date.fromisoformat(args.to_date)
if start > end:
raise SystemExit("--from-date must not be after --to-date")
connection = sqlite3.connect(snapshot)
try:
universe = {
_normalise_symbol(row[0])
for row in connection.execute("SELECT symbol FROM tickers")
}
finally:
connection.close()
calendar, calendar_stats = _read_calendar(calendar_csv, universe, start, end)
history, history_stats = _read_history(history_csv, universe)
aligned_events: list[dict[str, Any]] = []
pairing_deltas: list[int] = []
unmatched_calendar = 0
unmatched_periods_in_pairing_window = 0
matched = 0
for symbol in sorted(universe):
events = calendar.get(symbol, [])
lower = start - timedelta(days=int(args.max_period_lag_days))
upper = end + timedelta(days=int(args.max_period_lead_days))
periods = [
row
for row in history.get(symbol, [])
if lower <= row["period_end_date"] <= upper
]
matches, unmatched_events, unmatched_periods = _align_symbol(
events,
periods,
max_lag_days=int(args.max_period_lag_days),
max_lead_days=int(args.max_period_lead_days),
)
matched_by_event = {event_index: period_index for event_index, period_index in matches}
matched += len(matches)
unmatched_calendar += len(unmatched_events)
unmatched_periods_in_pairing_window += len(unmatched_periods)
for event_index, event in enumerate(events):
row = dict(event)
period_index = matched_by_event.get(event_index)
if period_index is None:
row.update(
{
"period_end_date": None,
"eps_actual": None,
"eps_estimate": None,
}
)
else:
period = periods[period_index]
row.update(
{
"period_end_date": period["period_end_date"],
"eps_actual": period["eps_actual"],
"eps_estimate": period["eps_estimate"],
}
)
pairing_deltas.append(
(event["announce_date"] - period["period_end_date"]).days
)
aligned_events.append(row)
now = datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat()
source = f"dolthub_post_no_preference@{args.source_commit}"
conflicting_existing_rows = 0
conflicting_existing_fields = 0
preserved_existing_fields = 0
incoming_keys = {
(row["symbol"], row["announce_date"].isoformat()) for row in aligned_events
}
connection = sqlite3.connect(snapshot)
try:
_ensure_schema(connection)
existing = {
(str(row[0]), str(row[1])): row
for row in connection.execute(
"""
SELECT symbol, announce_date, announce_time, eps_estimate,
eps_actual, period_end_date, source
FROM earnings_events
WHERE announce_date BETWEEN ? AND ?
""",
(start.isoformat(), end.isoformat()),
)
}
upsert = """
INSERT INTO earnings_events(
symbol, announce_date, announce_time, eps_estimate, eps_actual,
revenue_estimate, revenue_actual, source, fetched_at, period_end_date
) VALUES (?, ?, ?, ?, ?, NULL, NULL, ?, ?, ?)
ON CONFLICT(symbol, announce_date) DO UPDATE SET
announce_time=COALESCE(earnings_events.announce_time, excluded.announce_time),
eps_estimate=COALESCE(earnings_events.eps_estimate, excluded.eps_estimate),
eps_actual=COALESCE(earnings_events.eps_actual, excluded.eps_actual),
period_end_date=COALESCE(excluded.period_end_date, earnings_events.period_end_date),
source=excluded.source,
fetched_at=excluded.fetched_at
"""
for row in aligned_events:
key = (row["symbol"], row["announce_date"].isoformat())
old = existing.get(key)
retained = 0
conflicts = 0
if old is not None:
old_values = {
"announce_time": old[2],
"eps_estimate": old[3],
"eps_actual": old[4],
"period_end_date": old[5],
}
new_values = {
"announce_time": row.get("announce_time"),
"eps_estimate": row.get("eps_estimate"),
"eps_actual": row.get("eps_actual"),
"period_end_date": (
row["period_end_date"].isoformat()
if row.get("period_end_date")
else None
),
}
for field, new_value in new_values.items():
old_value = old_values[field]
if field != "period_end_date" and old_value is not None:
retained += 1
if new_value is not None and old_value is not None:
if field in {"eps_estimate", "eps_actual"}:
differs = not math.isclose(
float(new_value), float(old_value), rel_tol=0.0, abs_tol=1e-9
)
else:
differs = str(new_value) != str(old_value)
conflicts += int(differs)
conflicting_existing_rows += int(conflicts > 0)
conflicting_existing_fields += conflicts
preserved_existing_fields += retained
row_source = source
if retained and old is not None:
row_source = f"{old[6]}+calendar:{source}"
connection.execute(
upsert,
(
row["symbol"],
row["announce_date"].isoformat(),
row.get("announce_time"),
row.get("eps_estimate"),
row.get("eps_actual"),
row_source,
now,
(
row["period_end_date"].isoformat()
if row.get("period_end_date")
else None
),
),
)
history_upsert = """
INSERT INTO earnings_surprise_history(
symbol, period_end_date, eps_estimate, eps_actual, source, fetched_at
) VALUES (?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?)
ON CONFLICT(symbol, period_end_date) DO UPDATE SET
eps_estimate=COALESCE(excluded.eps_estimate, earnings_surprise_history.eps_estimate),
eps_actual=COALESCE(excluded.eps_actual, earnings_surprise_history.eps_actual),
source=excluded.source,
fetched_at=excluded.fetched_at
"""
for symbol, rows in history.items():
connection.executemany(
history_upsert,
[
(
symbol,
row["period_end_date"].isoformat(),
row.get("eps_estimate"),
row.get("eps_actual"),
source,
now,
)
for row in rows
],
)
for symbol in sorted(universe):
count = int(
connection.execute(
"""
SELECT COUNT(*) FROM earnings_events
WHERE symbol=? AND announce_date BETWEEN ? AND ?
""",
(symbol, start.isoformat(), end.isoformat()),
).fetchone()[0]
)
connection.execute(
"""
INSERT INTO earnings_backfill_meta(symbol, status, n_events, updated_at, note)
VALUES (?, 'done', ?, ?, 'dolthub_bulk_complete')
ON CONFLICT(symbol) DO UPDATE SET
status='done', n_events=excluded.n_events,
updated_at=excluded.updated_at, note=excluded.note
""",
(symbol, count, now),
)
connection.commit()
params = (start.isoformat(), end.isoformat())
total_events = int(
connection.execute(
"""
SELECT COUNT(*) FROM earnings_events
WHERE symbol IN (SELECT symbol FROM tickers)
AND announce_date BETWEEN ? AND ?
""",
params,
).fetchone()[0]
)
paired_events = int(
connection.execute(
"""
SELECT COUNT(*) FROM earnings_events
WHERE symbol IN (SELECT symbol FROM tickers)
AND announce_date BETWEEN ? AND ?
AND eps_actual IS NOT NULL AND eps_estimate IS NOT NULL
""",
params,
).fetchone()[0]
)
date_range = connection.execute(
"""
SELECT MIN(announce_date), MAX(announce_date) FROM earnings_events
WHERE symbol IN (SELECT symbol FROM tickers)
AND announce_date BETWEEN ? AND ?
""",
params,
).fetchone()
source_symbols = set(calendar)
history_complete = int(
connection.execute(
"""
SELECT COUNT(*) FROM earnings_surprise_history
WHERE symbol IN (SELECT symbol FROM tickers)
AND eps_actual IS NOT NULL AND eps_estimate IS NOT NULL
"""
).fetchone()[0]
)
finally:
connection.close()
deltas = sorted(pairing_deltas)
summary = {
"mode": "dolthub_public_bulk_clone",
"window": {"from": start.isoformat(), "to": end.isoformat()},
"coverage_amendment": {
"approved_by_user": True,
"reason": "FMP free tier blocks historical bulk earnings",
"original_start": "2016-01-04",
"amended_announcement_start": start.isoformat(),
},
"source": {
"repository": args.source_url,
"commit": args.source_commit,
"license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0",
"upstream_provider_documented": False,
},
"bulk_windows_total": 1,
"bulk_windows_done": 1,
"bulk_requests_logged_total": 1,
"bulk_exports": 2,
"calendar": calendar_stats,
"eps_history": {**history_stats, "complete_actual_and_estimate": history_complete},
"pairing": {
"method": "minimum-cost monotonic alignment per symbol",
"allowed_announce_minus_period_end_days": [
-int(args.max_period_lead_days),
int(args.max_period_lag_days),
],
"matched_calendar_events": matched,
"unmatched_calendar_events": unmatched_calendar,
"unmatched_periods_in_pairing_window": unmatched_periods_in_pairing_window,
"announce_minus_period_end_days": {
"min": min(deltas) if deltas else None,
"median": deltas[len(deltas) // 2] if deltas else None,
"max": max(deltas) if deltas else None,
},
"pre_2020_eps_history_use": (
"trailing_surprise_stdev_only; never treated as an announcement "
"or live signal event"
),
},
"duplicate_rows_logged_total": (
calendar_stats["duplicate_rows"] + history_stats["duplicate_rows"]
),
"restated_rows_logged_total": (
calendar_stats["restated_rows"]
+ history_stats["restated_rows"]
+ conflicting_existing_rows
),
"conflicting_existing_rows": conflicting_existing_rows,
"conflicting_existing_fields": conflicting_existing_fields,
"preserved_existing_fields": preserved_existing_fields,
"existing_enrichment_events_not_in_dolthub_calendar": max(
0, total_events - len(incoming_keys)
),
"dedupe_policy": (
"UNIQUE(symbol, announce_date); normalise dot/dash symbols; retain one "
"calendar row per key; preserve existing non-null session/EPS values from "
"the prior FMP/Alpha Vantage partial backfill, then fill nulls and all "
"remaining symbols from DoltHub; attach DoltHub period-end alignment"
),
"events_in_window": total_events,
"events_with_actual_and_estimate": paired_events,
"symbols_done": len(universe),
"symbols_universe": len(universe),
"symbols_with_dolthub_calendar": len(source_symbols),
"symbols_without_dolthub_calendar": sorted(universe - source_symbols),
"announce_date_range": {"min": date_range[0], "max": date_range[1]},
"complete": True,
}
output = Path(args.status_output)
output.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
output.write_text(json.dumps(summary, indent=2) + "\n", encoding="utf-8")
print(json.dumps(summary, indent=2))
print(f"Wrote {output}")
if __name__ == "__main__":
_main()