FAQ — data & coverage
What SecBot tracks, how fresh it is, and where it comes from.
How fresh is the data?
It depends on your access. Subscribers get real-time intelligence: events appear as they're processed. On free accounts, anything less than about 24 hours old is blurred or hidden. The delay is the main thing a subscription removes, because in trading the edge is in getting events early. See Plans & access for the full breakdown.
What companies are covered?
Thousands of US-listed companies. The watchlist holds up to 50 tickers per subscriber, so most traders track their book and a shortlist of names they're hunting, and let the broader feed surface the rest.
What kinds of data does SecBot track?
The intelligence spans several public domains:
- Insider trading — open-market buys and sells by company officers and directors.
- Institutional and activist — fund holdings and activist stakes.
- Congressional and government — trades disclosed by members of Congress, plus federal contract awards.
- Earnings — results, beats and misses, and the post-earnings reaction.
- Analyst ratings — upgrades, downgrades, and price-target changes.
- FDA and clinical — regulatory decisions, PDUFA dates, and trial readouts.
- Legal — court rulings, USITC Section 337 import cases and PTAB patent trials. See Court Judgements.
- Market structure — trading halts, the Reg SHO threshold list and listing changes. See Halts & Listings.
- Price — daily moves of 5% or more, for price-move alerts.
These feed the Daily Analysis brief, the research views, and the signals like Insider Cluster and PEAD.
Are the sources official?
Yes. The underlying records come from official, public sources: regulatory filings with the SEC, FDA decisions, congressional disclosures, and Federal Reserve data among them. SecBot's analysis reads those records, scores each event for likely impact, and reads its direction as bullish, bearish, neutral, or mixed, so you can sort signal from noise quickly. The raw facts are public; the speed and the scoring are what SecBot adds.
How are impact scores and sentiment decided?
Every event gets an impact score from 1 to 10 and a directional read. Scores reflect the type of event, its size, how surprising it is versus expectations, and the company's context, applied consistently across the feed. The full explanation is in Impact, sentiment & score.
Related: Plans & access.