open source / financial data
Open-Source Congressional and SEC Disclosure Data
A tour of the open-source congressional-disclosures and sec-ownership-disclosures projects. Austin shows public filing data, SEC rows, GitHub repositories, and the congressional dataset’s one-command SQLite download. Public disclosures have reporting delays and do not reveal every trade or position.
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0:00Investing tools like quiver quant and unusual whales had the entire business model disrupted
0:07by a single guy with a laptop.
0:10He open sourced two projects this week that's changing how data-driven investors make their
0:17investment decisions.
0:19The first is called Congressional Disclosures.
0:23It turns house and senate stock trading filings into a searchable, queryable database including
0:29when each trade became public.
0:33The second is called SEC Ownership Disclosures.
0:37It covers insider transactions and institutional holdings so we can see exactly how the biggest
0:44institutions are trading.
0:47We're talking tens of millions of insider transaction rows and 124 million holding rows.
0:56The best part is you can access both of these databases with a single command.
1:03No API key, no expensive subscription, just a single command and have access to the entire
1:09database on your laptop.
1:12"Common Data Driven Investor" and I'll DM you the open source GitHub repositories.
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