I have to admit — going to the EDGAR database every day to look for new filings is not one of my favorite tasks. When engaged in workouts, I find myself checking EDGAR multiple times a day to see if there is anything upsetting my applecart. Then there's the issue of, "I bought this business and I want to stay on top of it, but I can't check all my businesses every day — I'll never have time to find new ones!"
So, I put my web designer to the test. The result? Sit back, put your feet up, and let your companies come to you.
The F Wall Street RSS for EDGAR Filings (accessible at any time from the left menu) allow you to subscribe to any company's or individual's filings with the SEC. Obviously, the company or person in question must be a SEC filer — a public, reporting company, an executive/insider, etc.
What this means: Rather than checking the EDGAR database for filings and updates, this tool will allow you to be automatically notified when new forms are filed. Insiders selling? You'll know when the SEC does. Something upsetting the applecart? Be informed before reporters have time to write (and break) the story.
This tool pulls the data directly from the EDGAR database and creates an RSS feed. By subscribing to that feed, you'll be notified when new forms and filings appear on the EDGAR system. You'll be looking at the same information; it's just presented differently. Rather than just being there for you to find, filings and updates are sent to you.
Obviously, I like RSS. You should get to know it — it's the future of information dissemination. It's free; it's fast; it's convenient. Here's a free YouTube tutorial on using RSS.
I currently subscribe to about 40 RSS feeds. Rather than going to each of those 40 websites and reading the news/articles, I sit back and let them come directly to my Outlook. Right now, I have 2,200 news pieces on possible workouts that I have to go through. Don't want to read them? Delete All.
Best of all: It's free, and you can unsubscribe to any feed at any time.
Let me know what you think about the RSS for EDGAR Filings. Enjoy!
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Mar 10th, 2008
Thanks Joe!
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Adam S.
Mar 11th, 2008
However, is there a way to show the date next to each of the forms that have been filed?
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The date is on there and correct; the time is not correct yet (they all show midnight). If it is not showing up properly, it may be that your RSS reader that is getting it wrong. What reader are you using?
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Mar 11th, 2008
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George
Mar 11th, 2008
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I must say that I'm impressed with the work of your web designer. I'm curious as to how the EDGAR RSS generator works. If you or your tech guy ever have a chance, I'd love to learn a bit more about your code. I'm always playing around with these type of "investor" hacks. Feel free to email me.
Jason, I also use Google Reader and find it very useful.
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Mar 12th, 2008
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Adam S.
Mar 12th, 2008
Do I have to actually subscribe to the feed first before I can see the date?
Here is what I see:
EDGAR Filings for COVENTRY HEALTH CARE INC
EDGAR Filings straight from the SEC, free from Joe Ponzio's F Wall Street
Form 4
Statement of changes in beneficial ownership of securitiesAcc-no: 0001320086-08-000005
Form 4
Statement of changes in beneficial ownership of securitiesAcc-no: 0001335624-08-000001
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George: I sent you an e-mail this morning. Thanks for the nice write up! Hope you enjoy the service.
Dan: I'm trying to catch up on more than 2,000 articles from Yahoo!'s Merger & Arbitrage Feed. Mostly fluff (and a garbage feed). I'll let you guys know when I know.
Adam: The actual feed address (in this case, (http://www.fwallstreet.com/0001054833/edgar.xml) is an XML document which is then usually read by an RSS reader. You can subscribe to a free reader (e.g., Google Reader) or have it come to your Outlook. Some people can even have it appear on their home page when they get online.
In Firefox, when you go directly to the feed, you won't see the date. I don't know why they do that. Take a look at Google Reader (it's free). Sign up, add the address to your subscriptions, and watch the news come to you.
Google's Reader isn't perfect because it displays the date the documents were retrieved (i.e., today if you sign up today). Hovering over that date, you can see when they were filed. Still, you can access it from any computer with an internet connection.
Or, if you have Outlook, you can subscribe through there. As I mentioned to Jason, this is my favorite way to read feeds.
Hope that helps!
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Mar 13th, 2008
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Mar 14th, 2008
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It's kind of like Stockpickr.
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Mar 15th, 2008
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I have to look at it a bit more, and I definitely will!
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Tom Elliott
Mar 18th, 2009
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http://www.fwallstreet.co...
Is "Ooops. Page Not Found." at the moment.
Great idea- I hope the SEC gets this set up on its own site asap too.
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Amit
Jun 22nd, 2009
thanks Joe, I guess its time for me to embrace this technology.
Saves you time, so you can be human again (must be tiring to have gone through 500 annuals
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