About the data
How Quiet Money reads filings
Every figure on this site comes from a public filing, and every row links to the document it came from. This page lists the sources, when each one is read, what is counted and what is left out. Times are UTC.
Where the data comes from
| Source | What it is | When we read it | Delay to expect |
|---|---|---|---|
| US House periodic transaction reports (Office of the Clerk) | Stock trades by members of the House and their families, with the amount as a band (for example $1,001 – $15,000) | Each weekday, 06:05 | Within 30 days of learning of a trade, never more than 45 days after it. Filings after 45 days are marked. |
| SEC Form 4 (EDGAR daily index) | Open-market purchases by company insiders: officers, directors and owners of 10% or more | Tuesday to Saturday, 05:30, for the previous business day | Insiders have two business days to file. EDGAR’s index of a day appears the next morning. |
| FINRA short interest | Shares held short in each US stock on a settlement date, reported by brokers. No holder names. | Tuesday to Saturday, 05:45, the morning after each release | Twice a month, published seven business days after the settlement date. |
| German register of net short positions (Bundesanzeiger) | One named holder’s net short position in a company, as a share of its issued capital | Each weekday, 06:00 and 17:00 | A holder must publish a position of 0.5% or more by the next trading day. |
| Swedish register of net short positions (Finansinspektionen) | The same, named from 0.5%, plus FI’s own total per company, which counts every reported position from 0.1% | Each weekday, 06:00 and 17:00 | Same rules as Germany: EU short selling regulation. |
| Daily share prices (Alpaca, consolidated US feed) | Daily closing prices for about 400 US stocks, used to draw the price beside the filings | Each weekday, 22:30 | Adjusted for splits. |
None of this is real time. Each insider and US House row shows how many days passed between the trade and the day it became public. Email alerts go out after a filing reaches us, not when the trade happened.
What counts as an insider purchase
- Only open-market purchases: Form 4 transaction code P. Shares received as pay, option exercises, gifts and sales are not listed.
- One purchase reported by several related owners, such as a fund and the person who runs it, counts once.
- Filed numbers are never changed. A line we cannot trust is shown as filed, with a note that says why, and left out of every total. That happens when:
- the price is more than 20 times the stock’s closing price near the trade date, the range in the filing’s own footnote, or the other purchases in the same filing;
- the price is $1,000 a share or more and there is nothing to check it against;
- the filing says the company’s employee share purchase plan bought the shares for the insider, on terms the company set. That is not the insider choosing to buy;
- the price is not in US dollars, for example shares bought on the São Paulo exchange and filed in Brazilian reais.
US House trades
- US House of Representatives only. Senate filings are not covered yet.
- Amounts are the bands the law requires, not exact figures, and they are shown as bands. A band is never turned into a single number.
- A trade disclosed more than 45 days after it was made is marked “over 45 days”, with the number of days. The mark is about timing only, not a finding that the law was broken: an amended report filed later, or a trade date written oddly on the document, also lands past 45 days, and the filing alone does not tell these apart. A filing inside 45 days can still be late — the 30-day clock starts when the member learns of the trade, which the filing does not show.
Short interest
- FINRA publishes the number of shares held short, not the share of the float. Float figures differ between data providers, so this site shows days to cover instead: shares short divided by the average number of shares traded a day.
- When FINRA cannot work out days to cover, its file says 999.99. That value is left blank here, not printed.
- A change in shares short caused by a stock split is not described as buying back.
- The ranking of high short interest stocks covers NYSE, Nasdaq and NYSE American listings that trade at least 100,000 shares a day, with funds, ETFs and notes removed by name. A thinly traded stock can show months of days to cover on a small position.
Short positions in Germany and Sweden
- Each position is one holder’s net short position, as a share of the company’s issued capital. Holders must report from 0.1% to the regulator, and the position is published with the holder’s name from 0.5%.
- So the named positions in a company do not add up to its total. The Swedish list (Mest blankade aktier) ranks companies by Finansinspektionen’s own total, which includes the smaller positions it does not name.
- No other European country is covered yet.
What this site does not do
It gives no investment advice, no price targets and no buy or sell calls. It does not say what anyone earned. Rankings are sorted by a disclosed figure, such as the number of insiders buying or days to cover.
Mistakes and corrections
The registers are kept by others and can contain errors, late filings and amendments. If a figure here does not match its source document, write to hi@quietmoneyapp.com with the page link. We check it against the document and fix our reading of it.
Last updated 2026-10-02