Data sources
Last updated 25 September 2026
Every source Tracked Money reads, with the publisher and how often it is checked (UTC). How each is processed is on the methodology page.
| Dataset | Publisher | What is read | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|
| House periodic transaction reports | Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives | The daily-refreshed yearly index of financial disclosures, and each electronically filed PTR (PDF) | Weekdays, 08:00 and 17:00 UTC |
| Senate periodic transaction reports | Secretary of the Senate, Office of Public Records (eFD) | Each electronically filed PTR (HTML table) | Weekdays, 07:30 UTC |
| Executive-branch transaction reports (OGE Form 278-T) | U.S. Office of Government Ethics | Reports OGE posts directly as PDFs, found through its public index | Weekdays, 14:00 UTC |
| Insider transactions (SEC Form 4) | U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR | New Form 4 filings and their XML transaction tables | Every 2 hours |
| Activist and 5%+ stakes (Schedule 13D) | SEC EDGAR | Each new 13D and 13D/A as structured XML | Weekdays, 12:00, 16:00, 20:00 and 23:00 UTC |
| Institutional holdings (Form 13F-HR) | SEC EDGAR | The quarterly information table of a curated list of managers | Mondays, 06:00 UTC |
| Company names and tickers | SEC | The SEC company and ticker list, used to match filings to ticker symbols | With each ingest |
| Company financials | SEC (XBRL company facts) | Reported revenue and shares figures for the stock analysis | On request in the app |
| Short interest | FINRA | Consolidated short interest, for the stock analysis | On request in the app |
| Share prices and option chains | Yahoo Finance (unofficial, not a licensed feed) | Daily closing prices; end-of-day option chains for the options-block pillar | Daily; options weekdays 21:30 UTC |
| Federal contract awards | USAspending.gov (U.S. Treasury) | Large awards to listed companies | Weekdays, 14:00 UTC |
| Members of Congress and committees | congress.gov API; the unitedstates/congress-legislators project | The roster and committee assignments used to name filers | Weekly (Sundays) |
Links go to each publisher's public search or documentation page.