Data sources

Congress and officials

Trades that members of Congress and senior executive-branch officials must report.

• U.S. House of Representatives, Office of the Clerk

  What we take

  Members’ periodic transaction reports: the asset, buy or sale, trade and filing dates, amount range and owner.

  Collected

  Every night.

  Delay

  Up to 45 days after the trade, as the law allows.

  • Amounts are reported as ranges, not exact values.
  • A trade can belong to a spouse or dependent child; the report says which.
  • Some reports are scanned paper, read from the image.
  • An amended report is shown as an amendment; the original stays.

• U.S. Senate, Electronic Financial Disclosures (eFD)

  What we take

  Senators’ periodic transaction reports, with the same details.

  Collected

  Every night.

  Delay

  Up to 45 days after the trade.

  • Amounts are reported as ranges.
  • Some reports are filed on paper and published as images; they appear once read.

• U.S. Office of Government Ethics

  What we take

  Periodic transaction reports (Form 278-T) of senior executive-branch officials.

  Collected

  Every night.

  Delay

  Up to 45 days after the trade, then posted on the Office’s own schedule.

  • Only some reports are posted online; the rest are released on request and are not shown here.
  • Amounts are reported as ranges, and some reports are scanned.

• Biographical Directory of the United States Congress

  What we take

  Members’ names, offices and terms, with the public-domain congress-legislators dataset.

  Collected

  Every night.

• U.S. Government Publishing Office, Member Guide

  What we take

  Official portraits of members of Congress, by way of the unitedstates/images project.

  Collected

  Every night.

Federal law bars using these reports to set anyone’s credit rating, to solicit money, or for any commercial purpose other than news for the general public. We show them; we do not sell them or offer them for download.

Company filings and insiders

What companies and their insiders file with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

• U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR

  What we take

  Trades by officers, directors and 10% owners (Forms 3, 4 and 5), company announcements (Form 8-K), financial statement data and the filing index.

  Collected

  Every hour.

  Delay

  Insider trades within two business days; announcements usually within four.

  • Insider prices and amounts are the filer’s own.
  • A trade whose stated price could not be confirmed as the price of one share in US dollars is left out of totals until it has been checked. Where the filer typed a total, left out the decimal point or gave another currency, it is then shown at the corrected price.
  • Grants, option exercises and shares withheld for tax are shown for what they are, not as purchases.
  • Companies can restate figures in later filings.
  • No endorsement by the SEC is implied.

Funds and holdings

Who owns what, from filings made after the fact.

• SEC Form 13F

  What we take

  Quarter-end holdings of investment managers with over $100 million in US-listed securities.

  Collected

  Every night.

  Delay

  Up to 45 days after the quarter ends, then published by the SEC in periodic data sets.

  • A 13F shows holdings on the last day of the quarter, not the trades in between.
  • Buying and selling between quarters is estimated from the change in holdings.
  • Long positions only; short positions are not reported.

• SEC Schedules 13D and 13G

  What we take

  Owners of 5% or more of a company’s shares.

  Collected

  Every night.

  Delay

  Schedule 13D within five business days of crossing 5%; Schedule 13G on a schedule that depends on the holder.

  • The percentage is the filer’s own, as of the filing.

Contracts and lobbying

Federal money awarded to companies, and who lobbies for whom.

• USAspending.gov, U.S. Department of the Treasury

  What we take

  Federal contract awards: agency, recipient, amount, start date and description.

  Collected

  Every hour.

  Delay

  Most awards within days; Department of Defense contracts after 90 days.

  • Amounts are as the agency reported them and can be revised.
  • Awards are dated by their start date.
  • Recipients are shown as reported; one that is a company we track links to that company.

• Lobbying Disclosure Act filings, U.S. House of Representatives, Office of the Clerk

  What we take

  Lobbying registrations and quarterly activity reports: registrant, client, issues and amounts.

  Collected

  Every night.

  Delay

  Quarterly reports are due 20 days after each quarter ends.

  • Amounts are good-faith estimates, rounded to the nearest $10,000.
  • The same filings are also published by the Secretary of the Senate.

Clinical trials

Studies registered by drug and device makers, universities and others.

• ClinicalTrials.gov, U.S. National Library of Medicine

  What we take

  Study records: sponsor, phase, status, conditions and key dates.

  Collected

  Every night.

  Delay

  Sponsors update their own records; changes appear here the next day.

  • A date marked estimated is the sponsor’s expectation.
  • A study record is not a result.
  • No endorsement by the National Library of Medicine or the NIH is implied.

News

Headlines about the companies and people we track.

• The GDELT Project

  What we take

  Worldwide news coverage: each article’s headline, publisher, link and time.

  Collected

  Every 15 minutes.

  Delay

  Minutes after publication.

  • We show the headline and a link; the article stays with its publisher.
  • Companies and people are matched to headlines automatically, so a match can occasionally be wrong.
  • Reprints of one story are counted once.

The brief on My Market is written from our readings. When an AI model writes it, the brief says so and links the pages it drew on.

The economy

Official figures, each for the period it describes.

• U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

  What we take

  Consumer and producer prices, payrolls, unemployment, earnings, participation and job openings.

  Collected

  Every night; figures change on the Bureau’s release dates.

  Delay

  Monthly, for the month before; job openings for two months before.

  • Figures are revised in later releases; a revision is kept beside the first figure.
  • When no figure is published, the chart shows a gap. Some October 2025 figures were never published, during the lapse in federal funding.

• U.S. Department of the Treasury

  What we take

  Daily par yield curve rates, and total public debt outstanding (Debt to the Penny, from Fiscal Data).

  Collected

  Every business day.

  Delay

  Yields after each day’s close; the debt one business day later.

  • Yields are Treasury’s par yields, in percent a year.

• Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

  What we take

  Reserve balances (H.4.1) and the money supply (H.6), on the signed-in home page.

  Collected

  As each release is published.

  Delay

  H.4.1 weekly on Thursdays; H.6 monthly.

Prices

• Share prices, index levels and portfolio values on the signed-in pages come from commercial market-data services.
• Prices can be delayed and can occasionally be wrong. A price that fails our checks is left out of a chart as a gap, but a wrong price can still get through.
• For now, prices, index levels and the values and returns built from them are shown to the site’s owner only: showing them to other readers needs a commercial display licence we do not hold yet.
• Public pages never show a market price, quote or candle. They show readings we build from prices, such as trend states and percentage changes. The prices beside insiders’ and officials’ trades are the ones disclosed in their own filings, not market data.

Our readings

Rotation readings, trend states, and the sectors, industries and themes we place each company in are our own work, rebuilt every week from end-of-day prices of US-listed stocks. Each page defines the figures it shows. They describe what has happened; they are not forecasts.