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🚨 Alert #4019 Thu Sep-03 20:00:26

Michael Tsai - Blog - Google and Epic Cancel Settlement, Third-Party App Stores
mjtsai.com · Thu Sep-03 19:50:34 published · Thu Sep-03 20:00:26 alerted · alerted 9m after publish · read at mjtsai.com ↗ · regulatory · mat 65

Google and Epic Games have withdrawn their antitrust settlement, resulting in a court-ordered mandate for Google to allow third-party app stores on the Play Store.

🎯 Tickers & verdicts

tickerdirectionverdictsince close30mday loday hiintraday px
primary GOOGL▼ bearishREPRICING+1.68%-0.25%337.90344.36
peer AAPL▲ bullishFRESH+0.69%+0.01%323.67330.62

🧭 Decisions

strategytickeractionsiderationale
S1GOOGL○ skip—primary short contradicts tape: GOOGL +1.68% since prev close → close -0.17%
S2-○ skip—no counterparty in universe
S3AAPL○ skip—inferred long: materiality 65 below floor 75 → close +0.47%
S4GOOGL○ skip—overnight drift: short GOOGL at close, exit next close (regulatory: Google and Epic Games have withdrawn their antitrust settlement, resulting in a court-ordered mandate for Google to allow third-party app stores on the Play Store.) [skipped at close: outranked — mat 65 short lost to mat 85 long (decision 15828) for S4 GOOGL exiting 2026-09-04]

📈 Trades

no trades spawned

📖 Glossary

  • S1 primary — trades the alert's primary ticker in the direction the article itself indicates; exits at the same day's close.
  • S2 counterparty — trades the inferred counterparty ticker (weakest signal, LLM-inferred sympathy); exits at the same day's close.
  • S3 peer — trades an inferred peer ticker (also LLM-inferred sympathy); exits at the same day's close.
  • S4 overnight — holds the primary ticker from today's close to the NEXT day's close.
  • Verdicts are decided top-to-bottom, first match wins; REPRICING is also the fallback when nothing else matches (2026-08-08 #220).
  • UNKNOWN — a needed price input (move since close or move in the last 30m) is missing.
  • PRICED — |move since previous close| ≥ 2.0%: already reflected in price.
  • REPRICING — |move in the last 30m| ≥ 0.5%: the tape is actively moving on it. Also covers a quieter move — |move since previous close| in [1.0, 2.0) with a quiet last-30m tape: still developing, not yet priced.
  • FRESH — |move since previous close| < 1.0%: a genuinely new move.
  • materiality — how market-moving the story was judged, 0-100 — alerts require materiality ≥ 70.

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