Mega-cap tech reports after the close, and their guidance drives index futures into the overnight, setting the next morning's open across the entire equity complex. One click on AFTER-HRS surfaces every 8-K Item 2.02 and press release filed inside the post-close window. The highest-leverage 4 hours of every earnings season.
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A representative slice of items that landed between 16:00 ET and 20:00 ET on a major reporting day. The AFTER-HRS badge tags every item inside the window, click the badge in the search bar and the rest of the feed dims.
The post-close window concentrates the highest-stakes reports of the entire week. Index-moving guidance, sympathy moves across sectors, and the setup for tomorrow's gap all live here.
AAPL · NVDA · MSFT · GOOGL · META · AMZN · TSLA, the seven names that drive the index, all report after the close. Their guidance moves NQ futures by 1-3% routinely.
NVDA, AMD, AVGO, MRVL, AMAT, LRCX all report AH. One semi beat or miss creates a full sympathy wave across the sector by 17:30 ET.
NOW, PANW, CRWD, SNOW, ADBE, ORCL, CRM all report AH. Net retention, ARR growth, and FY guides drive the entire SaaS complex overnight.
The earnings call starts at 17:00 ET typically. Wires inside the call (CEO commentary, CFO Q&A) come through the AFTER-HRS filter live, not just the 8-K release.
NQ and ES futures react to AH earnings continuously from 16:00 to 20:00 ET. The cumulative move sets the next morning's gap.
Pro: Telegram + webhook alerts the second an 8-K Item 2.02 hits for any watchlist ticker. Beat the wire scrolls.
After-hours has even thinner liquidity than pre-market, but the catalysts are larger. Three patterns that survive the slippage.
When NVDA's 8-K Item 2.02 hits at 16:01 ET, the AH price moves 2-8% in the first 30 seconds. The first-print reaction is everyone in the world reading the same press release and front-running consensus expectations.
Most retail traders shouldn't trade this 30-second window. The liquidity is dominated by sell-side market makers and HFT, the spreads are wide (often 0.5-2% on mega-caps), and a market order will fill 1-3% off the wire price. If you must participate, use limit orders priced inside the spread, half size, with a hard mental stop at -1.5% from entry.
The better trade is the second move, the 17:00 ET conference call commentary.
The earnings 8-K gives you the numbers. The conference call gives you the context that moves the second leg of the AH price action:
The AFTER-HRS filter shows you the call wires as they happen, major newswires push CEO/CFO quotes within seconds. That's the second-leg trade window.
When NVDA reports a strong beat at 16:01 ET, AVGO, AMD, AMAT, LRCX, MRVL all move 2-4% in sympathy without any company-specific news on them. The sympathy trade is taking a position in the second-tier name before the move is complete, on the assumption that the leader's print confirms the sector setup.
Risk: sympathy moves often fade overnight if the leader's call commentary tempers the initial reaction. Manage by sizing smaller, setting stops at the pre-print base, and exiting before the next morning's open rather than holding through.
The AH price at 20:00 ET is the market's first attempt to price the news. The 04:00 ET pre-market price is the second attempt after Asia and Europe have weighed in. The 09:30 ET cash open is the consensus.
If NVDA settles +6% at 20:00 ET, it doesn't mean NVDA gaps +6% on the open. The path can be:
The AFTER-HRS filter doesn't predict which path you'll get, but it shows you the full sequence of wires from 16:00 through 20:00, which lets you read the pressure direction (positive incremental commentary = continuation likely; cautious Q&A = fade likely).
The AFTER-HRS badge sits next to PRO, PRE-MKT, SEC EDGAR, and the asset chips in the search bar. One click activates the filter, the feed dims everything outside 16:00-20:00 ET and items inside get a green AFTER-HRS tag. Click any earnings 8-K item to open the company detail modal; from there you can request the AI 5-bullet summary on the new quarter (uses the 8-K press release as source). Pro: extend the window to 22:00 ET to capture late call wires under Settings → News Filter.
After-hours liquidity is roughly half of pre-market liquidity, which is already a fifth of cash hours. Practical implications:
You can predict which names report AH from any earnings calendar, most calendars show BMO (before market open) or AMC (after market close) per company. The AFTER-HRS filter is for the actual print, not the prediction. Combine the two:
The AFTER-HRS chip combines with small chips for high-precision filtering:
A filtered news feed for the 16:00-20:00 ET window. One click on the AFTER-HRS chip surfaces only earnings releases, guidance updates, and conference call highlights filed inside the window. Applies to SEC 8-K Item 2.02 and post-close press wires.
AAPL, NVDA, MSFT, GOOGL, META, AMZN, TSLA, the seven names driving the index, all report after the close. Their guidance moves NQ futures into the overnight, which sets the next morning's open across the entire equity complex.
Mega-cap tech almost always reports after the close. Most semiconductor names. Most software names. The retail/consumer names (WMT, HD, TGT) lean pre-market.
SEC 8-K appears within 5-15 seconds of EDGAR publishing. Press wires within 10-30 seconds. The AFTER-HRS filter doesn't add latency, it's a visual gate on the same real-time feed.
When an 8-K Item 2.02 hits at 16:08 ET, click the ticker to open the company detail modal and request the AI 5-bullet summary. The summary uses the 8-K press release as source. You get the synthesised view of the print within seconds of it hitting.
Yes, AFTER-HRS toggle is free on Basic with the standard news feed. Pro adds custom window times, watchlist-only filtering, audio squawk, and Telegram alerts.
Pro users can extend to 22:00 ET to capture late conference call wires. The default 20:00 cutoff matches the official extended-hours close.
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