Form 8K Edison international For: 24 April

This is not a market catalyst so much as a reminder that the information edge is structurally degraded when the source itself disclaims timeliness, accuracy, and tradability. In practice, that means any strategy built on these pages should be treated as a sentiment-input only, not a signal-generating feed; the expected value is highest for very short-horizon reaction trading and lowest for anything requiring precise levels, volumes, or timestamp integrity. The second-order risk is false confidence: models that ingest stale or indicative data can appear robust in backtests while quietly embedding execution slippage and regime mismatch.

For desks that rely on media scraping or alternative data aggregation, the bigger issue is operational rather than directional. If this content is being used downstream in screening, it can contaminate factor models by introducing noise correlations that look predictive only because the dataset is broad and low-signal. That tends to punish crowded momentum and event-driven books first, because they amplify any spurious headline into a position before the market has actually moved.

The contrarian view is that the most valuable action here is not a trade, but a process adjustment: quarantine or downweight any source with explicit non-realtime and non-accuracy caveats. Over a multi-month horizon, that can improve hit rate more than adding another alpha source, especially in crypto where bad prints and venue fragmentation make stale-data alpha particularly fragile. If there is a tradeable edge, it is only in the meta-layer: long better data infrastructure, short dependence on low-integrity feeds.