Composite Government Tracker Insider Trading Hedge Funds Red Flags Financials

Composite

What this is

Every input is a public regulatory filing. Nothing here is private, purchased or predictive — the rating summarises disclosures that have already been made, and says how strongly they agree with one another.

The five inputs

Pillar	Source	What it measures
Insider Trading	SEC Form 4	Net value bought vs. sold by officers, directors and 10% owners.
Hedge Funds	SEC 13F	Tracked funds increasing vs. decreasing a position.
Congress	House & Senate PTRs, executive-branch filings	Disclosed purchases vs. sales, weighted by committee oversight of the sector.
Financials	SEC 10-K / 20-F / 40-F	Ten annual metrics ranked against SIC-code peers.
Red Flags	SEC 8-K item codes	Governance and distress events. Penalty only — never counts in a ticker's favour.

How the rating is built

Each pillar is scored as a percentile rank against every other ticker that has data for that pillar, so a raw dollar figure never competes with a raw fund count. The rating is the average of whichever pillars are available.

Adjustment	What it does
Consensus requirement	A ticker with only one pillar reporting gets no rating at all. One source isn't a consensus.
Recency weighting	Recent activity counts for more than old activity, on an exponential decay. Trade-level sources decay faster than quarterly ones, since a fund's position is a slower-moving fact than a single purchase.
Volume damping	Three trades that all happen to be buys shouldn't outrank thirty trades that lean buy. Ratios are pulled toward neutral until the volume behind them justifies the conviction.
Committee oversight	A congressional trade in an industry that member helps oversee carries more weight than the same trade by someone with no oversight role.
Red flag penalty	Active governance or distress flags subtract from the rating and cap it below the top tiers, regardless of how positive the other four pillars are.

Clustered buying or selling doesn't set the direction — it only adds conviction to whatever direction the underlying trades already point.

Reading the rating

Label	Rating	Pillars	Meaning
Very Strong	≥ 65	all agree	The rating clears the upper threshold and every available pillar points the same way.
Strong	≥ 65	—	Clears the same threshold, but the pillars disagree with one another.
Neutral	35–65	—	Mixed or middling. Most tickers sit here.
Weak	≤ 35	—	Disclosures lean negative.
Very Weak	≤ 20	all agree	Below the lower threshold, with every available pillar pointing the same way.

What it can't tell you

The honest limits, because a rating that hides these is worth less than one that states them.

Disclosures lag reality. Congressional PTRs allow up to 45 days; 13F is quarterly and filed 45 days after quarter-end. A rating reflects what has been reported, not what is happening now.
Coverage is uneven. Foreign issuers file no Form 4 at all and are exempt from Section 16, so their insider column is permanently blank — that is a structural gap, not a missing number.
Filings are transcribed by people. Congressional disclosures are PDFs, sometimes handwritten. Names and tickers are resolved automatically and conservatively; where a security can't be identified with confidence it is left unresolved rather than guessed.
No prices, no fundamentals forecast. Nothing here models valuation or predicts returns. It measures agreement between disclosures.
Percentiles are relative. A high rating means a ticker ranks well against the others tracked — not that it is objectively good.

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