Post-Earnings Announcement Drift (PEAD) is a well-documented market pattern: a stock that jumps on unusually heavy volume around its earnings often keeps drifting in that direction for weeks afterward, especially once it forms a real base and breaks back above its earnings-day high. Most investors either miss the setup entirely or chase the initial spike. This workflow is the four-step path Finmagine uses to catch it on the way through — a calendar, a ranking, a real confirmation gate, and an alert, so you're not refreshing four tabs by hand every day of earnings season.

Not investment advice. This guide demonstrates platform functionality only. PEAD is a public-domain, widely studied market pattern — nothing here constitutes a recommendation to buy, sell, or hold any security. Please do your own research or consult a SEC-registered investment adviser.

The Four Steps

1. See who's reporting before it happens

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Open the US Morning Brief and switch to the Earnings Calendar tab — a 7-day forward look at which companies report, grouped by date, with the reporting hour (before/after market) where known. This is the starting point for the whole workflow: you can't watch for a PEAD setup on a stock whose earnings date you don't know is coming.

2. Rank the quarter, and see which reports already cleared a real volume bar

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Open the US Earnings Catalyst Score (ECS) and sort by score to see which companies delivered the strongest quarter by revenue growth, net income growth, operating leverage, and EPS surprise. Check the PEAD column, or filter to PEAD only — this flags a company whose earnings were followed by a real HVE/HVD/HVY volume event (the same volume-tier cascade used everywhere else on Finmagine, not a fundamentals-only guess) within 45 days of quarter-end. It's a coarser "worth tracking" flag, not a trade signal yet — that's step 3.

3. Confirm an actual entry — base formed, breakout, real pullback

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A PEAD-flagged stock on the ECS page is only eligible — most won't have a confirmed entry on any given day. Two places show the real confirmation, the same one Finmagine uses everywhere: a 7+ day base formed after the volume event, price breaking back above the event-day high, on an up day, with a genuine pullback verified in between (not just a straight line up). Check the Post-Earnings Drift line on Conviction's Readiness badge for a quick yes/no across your whole watch universe, or open the Trader-Volume scan's PEAD tab for the full picture on a confirmed name: the exact entry price, a 20-day-MA stop-loss, and a backtest archive showing how past PEAD entries for other stocks actually played out.

4. Stop checking — let it find you

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Connect Telegram once, in Account > Connected Apps. From then on, if a stock you actually hold in your Portfolio confirms a PEAD entry, a message arrives automatically overnight with the entry price and stop-loss — the exact same confirmation logic as step 3, just watching your holdings for you instead of you watching the page.

Why the ECS flag and the confirmed entry are deliberately two different things: Folding them into one signal would either flood you with "PEAD" flags that are really just "earnings happened near a volume spike," or hide genuine setups behind an overly strict single gate. The two-tier design — a wide net on the ECS page, a real confirmation gate everywhere it actually informs a trade — is intentional, and it's the same design India's own Earnings Catalyst Score and PEAD system already use.