# OQRO

> OQRO tracks US public-market disclosures and explains each one in plain words, with a link to the official record: insider trades (SEC Form 4 and Form 144), stock trades by members of Congress (House and Senate periodic transaction reports), hedge fund holdings (SEC 13F), federal contracts (USAspending) and lobbying (LDA). It covers more than 4,900 US-listed companies; the live counts are on the coverage page. It reports public filings and is not investment advice.

Every figure on OQRO comes from a public filing, and every event links to its source document on sec.gov, house.gov, senate.gov, usaspending.gov or lda.gov. Amounts that are filed as ranges (politician trades) stay ranges. Contract ceilings are never presented as revenue.

## Official profiles

- [X](https://x.com/oqrofinance), [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/oqro/) and [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/oqro.io/)

## Main pages

- [Insider trades](https://oqro.io/insiders): open-market purchases and sales by executives and directors, with planned (10b5-1) and automatic sales separated from the rare unscheduled ones
- [Biggest insider buys](https://oqro.io/insiders/biggest-buys): the 25 largest open-market purchases of the last 12 months, each with its result against the S&P 500
- [Best-performing insider buys](https://oqro.io/insiders/best-performing): which purchases finished furthest ahead of the S&P 500 after 30, 90 and 180 days, and how many beat it at all
- [Most active companies](https://oqro.io/insiders/most-active) and [insider buying by sector](https://oqro.io/insiders/by-sector): where insiders buy, and how those purchases did
- [Insider trading, day by day](https://oqro.io/daily): one page for every US business day with the open-market purchases and sales filed that day
- [Politician trades](https://oqro.io/political): stock trades disclosed by members of the House and Senate (executive-branch filings are not live yet), with the committees they sit on, and [the reports filed after the 45-day deadline](https://oqro.io/political/late-filings)
- [White House](https://oqro.io/political/white-house): the President, Vice President, Cabinet and Cabinet-level officials with the date each took office (from official pages), and the executive orders, proclamations and memoranda published in the Federal Register, with the companies they name by exact name. No financial disclosure is loaded
- [Fund moves](https://oqro.io/institutions): what more than 500 investment managers (Berkshire Hathaway, Bridgewater, Pershing Square, Soros, ARK and the largest managers by size) reported owning at quarter end, and what changed
- [Federal contracts](https://oqro.io/contracts): contracts the US government awarded to listed companies, with the amount obligated kept apart from the ceiling
- [5%+ stakes](https://oqro.io/activists): new stakes above 5% from SEC Schedules 13D and 13G, with activists kept apart from passive holders
- [Red flags](https://oqro.io/red-flags): auditor changes, restatements, officer departures, material weaknesses and delisting notices, with the insider sales filed in the weeks before each one
- [Screener](https://oqro.io/screener): filter the covered companies by price move, published fundamentals and disclosed buying from insiders, Congress and funds
- [Company pages](https://oqro.io/stocks/AAPL): one page per covered company (replace AAPL with any ticker) with insider trades, politician trades, 13F ownership, contracts, lobbying, short selling, executive pay, layoff notices (WARN) and H-1B filings
- [What OQRO covers, in numbers](https://oqro.io/coverage): the live count of companies, people, funds and records, the official source of each kind of record and how often it is read
- [Daily recap](https://oqro.io/recap): a short recap, written from OQRO's own records, of what the market did and what insiders, Congress, funds and agencies filed on the latest trading day
- [What is OQRO?](https://oqro.io/learn/blog/what-is-oqro): the plain definition, what it costs and what it is not
- [Methodology](https://oqro.io/methodology): sources, update frequency and how each disclosure is classified

## Questions answered, by topic

Each answer below is the opening paragraph of a sourced article and can be quoted on its own; the article links the official rule or filing and says what the filing does not show. The hub is [Questions people ask about public disclosures](https://oqro.io/answers).

### Insider trading (overview: https://oqro.io/answers/insider-trading)

- [Is it legal for a CEO to sell shares before bad news?](https://oqro.io/learn/blog/ceo-sell-shares-before-bad-news): Selling shares before bad news is not illegal in itself. Under SEC Rule 10b5-1, a sale is made on the basis of material nonpublic information if the seller was aware of that information when selling, and a written plan adopted earlier, while unaware, can be a defense. Insider sales are normally reported on a public Form 4.
- [How can you get free alerts for new SEC filings?](https://oqro.io/learn/blog/edgar-rss-alerts-new-filings): The SEC turns some EDGAR searches into free RSS feeds. Run a Company Search or a Latest Filings search, filter by form type, and use the RSS link above the results in a feed reader. The SEC's separate email update service does not cover company filings. A feed lists filings; it does not explain them.
- [How do you find a company's insider trades on EDGAR?](https://oqro.io/learn/blog/find-insider-trades-on-edgar): Open the SEC's Search Filings page, enter the company's name or ticker in Company Search, and set the Ownership Forms 3, 4 and 5 option to Only. The result lists the company's insider filings, newest first; open any Form 4 to see the trade. It is free, official, and unsummarised.
- [How do you read an SEC Form 4 in five minutes?](https://oqro.io/learn/blog/form-4-in-five-minutes): Read a Form 4 in four passes: who is filing and for which company, the code, date, shares and price in Table I, the footnotes, and the Rule 10b5-1 box. The form is due two business days after the trade and shows what was done, not why.
- [How do you read the tables on a Form 4?](https://oqro.io/learn/blog/form-4-tables-direct-indirect-ownership): A Form 4 has two tables. Table I lists transactions in the company's shares: date, code, amount, price and the total held afterwards. Table II lists options, warrants and other derivative securities. Each line also says whether the holding is direct or indirect, and indirect ownership names how it is held, such as through a trust.
- [What are SEC Forms 3, 4 and 5, and when are they due?](https://oqro.io/learn/blog/forms-3-4-5-explained): Form 3 is the first report an insider files, within 10 days of becoming one, listing what they own. Form 4 reports a transaction and is due within two business days. Form 5 is a year-end report, generally due 45 days after the fiscal year ends, for items not reported earlier. All three are public on SEC EDGAR.
- [How do you read a Form 144?](https://oqro.io/learn/blog/how-to-read-form-144): A Form 144 is the notice a holder of restricted or control shares files with the SEC when placing an order to sell them under Rule 144, once the sale passes 5,000 shares or $50,000 in three months. It shows how many shares, their market value and an approximate sale date, not a completed trade. OQRO, a tracker of SEC and congressional disclosures, lists these as planned sales and keeps them apart from the trades that a Form 4 reports afterwards.
- [What does it mean when several insiders buy at once?](https://oqro.io/learn/blog/insider-cluster-buying): Cluster buying is a market term for two or more insiders of the same company buying its stock on the open market within a short period; it is not a term in the SEC's rules. One published study found that clustered insider purchases were followed by abnormal returns above 2% in the next month, while OQRO's own 2026 test found that such stocks still trailed the S&P 500 in the typical case. Neither result predicts any single stock.
- [Is insider trading legal?](https://oqro.io/learn/blog/is-insider-trading-legal): Insider trading is two different things. Officers, directors and large shareholders buying or selling their own company's stock is legal when it is reported, with a Form 4 due within two business days. Trading while aware of material nonpublic information, in breach of a duty, is illegal under SEC Rule 10b-5. A Form 4 shows that a trade happened, not which kind it was, and OQRO, a tracker of SEC and congressional disclosures, describes filings without inferring motive.
- [Which insider purchases stood out in the week of Sep 28 to Oct 4, 2026?](https://oqro.io/learn/blog/rare-insider-purchases-week-2026-40): In the week of Sep 28 to Oct 4, 2026, insiders filed 318 open-market purchases worth about $442M, and ten stood out against their company's own filings since 2006. Three examples: the largest insider purchase at Oracle since 2006, a 10% owner buying Prothena before an executive left, and a large Group 1 Automotive purchase.
- [What is a Rule 10b5-1 plan?](https://oqro.io/learn/blog/rule-10b5-1-plans-insider-sales): A Rule 10b5-1 plan is a written plan an insider adopts in advance that fixes how and when shares will be traded. Many sales are made under one, and a Form 4 box and footnote show it. The research does not support saying that most insider sales mean nothing: it supports saying that purchases and sales differ, and that planned sales differ from each other.
- [What do the transaction codes on a Form 4 mean?](https://oqro.io/learn/blog/sec-form-4-transaction-codes): On an SEC Form 4, P means a purchase and S means a sale, and most other letters mark events that are not trades in the market: A is a grant, M an option exercise, F shares withheld for tax, G a gift. In the 90 days to 9 October 2026, OQRO, a tracker of SEC and congressional disclosures, stored 40,124 insider transaction records, and 6.0% of them were open-market purchases.
- [What is the six-month short-swing profit rule?](https://oqro.io/learn/blog/short-swing-profit-rule-section-16b): Section 16(b) of the Securities Exchange Act says that any profit an officer, director or 10 percent owner makes from a purchase and sale, or sale and purchase, of the company's stock within a period of less than six months belongs to the company. It applies whatever the insider intended. A civil claim, not a criminal charge.
- [When is a Form 4 late?](https://oqro.io/learn/blog/when-is-a-form-4-late): A Form 4 is late if it is filed after the end of the second business day following the day of the trade; EDGAR treats a Form 4 submitted by 10 p.m. Eastern as filed that day. In OQRO's records of open-market insider trades dated July to October 2026, 82.3% were disclosed within two weekdays of the trade. A late filing is not flagged on the form, so you find it by comparing two dates.
- [Who counts as an insider and has to file Form 4?](https://oqro.io/learn/blog/who-files-form-4-insiders): Under Section 16 of the Securities Exchange Act, the people who must report their company stock are directors, officers, and anyone who owns more than 10 percent of a class of the company's registered equity securities. They file Form 3 when they become insiders and Form 4 after trades. Ordinary employees and small shareholders are not covered.

### Congress trading (overview: https://oqro.io/answers/congress-trading)

- [Can members of Congress trade stocks?](https://oqro.io/learn/blog/can-members-of-congress-trade-stocks): As of the sources read on 9 October 2026, yes: the STOCK Act of 2012, the law in force, does not ban members of Congress from owning or trading individual stocks. It confirms that insider trading law applies to them and requires trades above $1,000 to be reported within 30 days of notice and no later than 45 days after the trade. A bill restricting purchases, H.R. 7008, reached the Senate in July 2026 and had not become law in the sources we could read. OQRO, a tracker of SEC and congressional disclosures, lists the reports as filed.
- [What do the dollar ranges on a Congress trade report mean?](https://oqro.io/learn/blog/congress-ptr-value-ranges): A periodic transaction report does not give an exact amount. The House form has the member tick one of ten value categories, from $1,001-$15,000 up to over $50,000,000, based on the total purchase or sale price, not on gain or loss. A trade reported in a range could be anywhere inside it.
- [Are a Congress member's spouse and child trades reported?](https://oqro.io/learn/blog/congress-spouse-dependent-child-trades): Yes. The House periodic transaction report covers purchases, sales and exchanges of securities owned by the member, the member's spouse or dependent children when the amount exceeds $1,000. The labels SP, DC and JT can mark spouse, dependent child or joint ownership, but the instructions say using them is optional.
- [Why do Congress stock trades take up to 45 days to appear?](https://oqro.io/learn/blog/congress-trade-disclosure-45-days): A periodic transaction report is due 30 days after the member is notified of a trade and in no case later than 45 days after the trade itself, so a disclosure can appear more than a month after the transaction. Amounts are filed as one of ten fixed bands, never as an exact figure.
- [How do the House and Senate publish stock trade disclosures?](https://oqro.io/learn/blog/house-vs-senate-disclosure-sites): House reports are filed with the Clerk of the House, electronically or on paper, and posted on the Clerk's website. The STOCK Act requires both chambers to make the forms public on their official websites within 30 days of filing. The Senate runs its own site, which refused automated access when we tried it.
- [How do you read a Congress periodic transaction report?](https://oqro.io/learn/blog/how-to-read-a-congress-periodic-transaction-report): A periodic transaction report (PTR) lists each stock purchase, sale, partial sale or exchange above $1,000 by a member of Congress, a spouse or a dependent child, with the asset name, two dates and one of ten amount bands. It gives no share count and no price. In OQRO's records of House and Senate reports disclosed from 12 July to 7 October 2026, the median gap between trade and disclosure was 40 days.

### Funds and 13F (overview: https://oqro.io/answers/funds-13f)

- [What is the difference between Schedule 13D and 13G?](https://oqro.io/learn/blog/schedule-13d-vs-13g): Anyone who beneficially owns more than 5 percent of a listed company's stock must file Schedule 13D or 13G. An investor with control intent files the longer Schedule 13D, within five business days. Passive investors and certain institutions file the shorter Schedule 13G, with deadlines that differ by type of holder.
- [What does a Form 13F show?](https://oqro.io/learn/blog/what-a-13f-shows): A Form 13F is a quarter-end snapshot of the long positions in SEC-listed securities held by an institutional investment manager with at least $100 million of them, filed within 45 days after the quarter. It has no trade dates, no short positions and no foreign-listed shares.
- [What does a Form 13F leave out?](https://oqro.io/learn/blog/what-form-13f-leaves-out): A Form 13F lists a manager's long positions in certain US-listed equity securities on the last day of a quarter. It leaves out short positions, shares listed only abroad, anything not on the SEC's official list, and the dates and prices of trades. It is a snapshot, filed up to 45 days later.
- [What is short interest, and where does FINRA publish it?](https://oqro.io/learn/blog/what-is-short-interest-finra): Short interest is the total of short positions in a security that broker-dealers report to FINRA. Under FINRA Rule 4560, member firms report gross short positions for each account as of a settlement date set by FINRA, within two business days. FINRA publishes the reports for exchange-listed and over-the-counter equities on its data pages.
- [How long after quarter end do funds file a 13F?](https://oqro.io/learn/blog/when-13f-filings-are-due): Within 45 days. Rule 13f-1 gives a manager 45 days after the end of each calendar quarter to file Form 13F, so holdings at 31 March are due by 15 May, 30 June by 14 August, 30 September by 14 November, and 31 December by 14 February. The positions shown are a quarter-end snapshot.

### Contracts and lobbying (overview: https://oqro.io/answers/contracts-lobbying)

- [What is the difference between a contract's ceiling and the amount obligated?](https://oqro.io/learn/blog/contract-ceiling-vs-obligated): The obligated amount is money the government has committed to a contract so far. The potential value, often called the ceiling, is the most that could be obligated if every option and order were used. On an IDIQ contract the ceiling can be many times what is obligated, and neither figure is the recipient's revenue.
- [What is FARA, and where can you search its filings?](https://oqro.io/learn/blog/fara-foreign-agents-registration-act): The Foreign Agents Registration Act, enacted in 1938, requires certain agents of foreign principals who engage in political or other specified activities to make periodic public disclosure of their relationship with the foreign principal and of their activities, receipts and disbursements. The Justice Department's National Security Division runs it, and registration statements can be searched at fara.gov.
- [What do modification numbers mean in a federal contract?](https://oqro.io/learn/blog/federal-contract-modifications-explained): A federal contract is recorded as a series of actions. The first action creates the award, and each later change gets a modification number and a reason, such as adding funds or exercising an option. An action can add to the amount obligated or reduce it, so a contract's total is the sum of all its actions.
- [How do you find which federal contracts a public company has?](https://oqro.io/learn/blog/find-federal-contracts-for-a-public-company): Federal contracts are published on USAspending.gov under the name of the recipient registered in SAM.gov, identified by a Unique Entity Identifier (UEI), not by stock ticker. To total a public company's contracts you must match its subsidiaries through the ultimate parent, separate prime awards from subawards, and count obligations, not the potential ceiling. OQRO, a tracker of SEC and congressional disclosures, does this matching and states when ownership is uncertain.
- [What are LD-1, LD-2 and LD-203 lobbying reports?](https://oqro.io/learn/blog/ld-1-ld-2-ld-203-lobbying-reports): Under the Lobbying Disclosure Act, an LD-1 registers a lobbyist or lobbying firm within 45 days of first lobbying contact or hiring. An LD-2 reports lobbying activity each quarter, due 20 days after the quarter ends. An LD-203 reports certain contributions twice a year, due by 30 July and 30 January.
- [How do you read a lobbying disclosure report (LD-2)?](https://oqro.io/learn/blog/lobbying-disclosure-report-ld-2): An LD-2 is the quarterly report in which a lobbying firm or an organization with in-house lobbyists states, for each client, the issues lobbied, the chambers and agencies contacted, the lobbyists used, and an estimate of income or expenses rounded to the nearest $10,000. It is due 20 days after quarter end. It does not show what was said or the outcome. OQRO, a tracker of SEC and congressional disclosures, ties each report to the company that was the client.
- [How does USAspending identify who received a contract?](https://oqro.io/learn/blog/usaspending-recipient-uei-parent): A recipient on USAspending is the legal entity registered in the federal System for Award Management, identified by a Unique Entity ID. Records can also show an ultimate parent. A contract is often awarded to a subsidiary, so the name of a listed company may not appear on its own contracts.

### Presidents and officials (overview: https://oqro.io/answers/presidents-officials)

- [What is a blind trust, and how does a qualified trust work?](https://oqro.io/learn/blog/blind-trust-qualified-trust): A qualified blind trust is a trust certified by the Director of the Office of Government Ethics, run by an independent trustee under a model trust document, so the official does not control or know what it buys and sells. The Ethics in Government Act creates two kinds, blind and diversified. The rules read here apply to the executive branch.
- [What are executive orders and proclamations?](https://oqro.io/learn/blog/executive-orders-and-proclamations): Executive orders are numbered documents through which the President manages the operations of the federal government; proclamations are another kind of presidential document. After the President signs one, the White House sends it to the Office of the Federal Register, which publishes it in the daily Federal Register, usually a few days after signing.
- [What are OGE Form 278e and OGE Form 278-T?](https://oqro.io/learn/blog/oge-278e-vs-278-t): OGE Form 278e is the public financial disclosure report that senior executive-branch officials, nominees and presidential candidates file. OGE Form 278-T is the supplemental periodic transaction report for securities purchases, sales and exchanges above $1,000, due within 30 days of notice and no later than 45 days after the transaction.
- [Which officials must file financial disclosure reports?](https://oqro.io/learn/blog/who-files-public-financial-disclosures): Title I of the Ethics in Government Act requires public financial disclosure reports from the President, the Vice President, Members of Congress, senior executive-branch officials, certain congressional employees, Senate-confirmed nominees and candidates for President, Vice President and Congress. Incumbents file annually by 15 May; new officials and nominees have shorter deadlines.

### How to read a filing (overview: https://oqro.io/answers/how-to-read-a-filing)

- [Where can you find insider trading and Congress trade data for free?](https://oqro.io/learn/blog/free-insider-trading-and-congress-data-sources): Every dataset OQRO uses starts as a free public record: SEC EDGAR for insider trades, planned sales, fund holdings and 5% stakes; the House Clerk and Senate eFD sites for Congress trades; USAspending.gov for federal contracts; and the House and Senate lobbying databases. OQRO, a paid tracker of these disclosures, adds plain-language lines, matching to companies and alerts. It does not replace the official filings, which remain the authority.
- [What are the key terms in public disclosure filings?](https://oqro.io/learn/blog/glossary-30-public-disclosure-terms): These are 30 terms that appear in insider, Congress, fund, contract and lobbying filings, each defined in plain English from the official rule or form that uses it. They are grouped by the kind of disclosure: insiders, stakes and funds, Congress and officials, contracts, and lobbying.
- [Why are public disclosures always late?](https://oqro.io/learn/blog/why-disclosures-arrive-late): Because the law sets a deadline after the event, not before it. An insider has two business days to file a Form 4, a member of Congress up to 45 days, a fund 45 days after quarter end, a lobbying firm 20 days after a quarter. Each filing can then take more time to publish.

### About OQRO and other trackers

- [How does OQRO compare with other disclosure trackers?](https://oqro.io/learn/blog/oqro-and-other-disclosure-trackers): SEC EDGAR is the free primary source for every filing, and the other products listed here package parts of it. This page records what each says it offers and the price it lists, as read on 8 October 2026, and what OQRO does not do. It is not a ranking and it does not say any product is better.
- [How does OQRO compare with OpenInsider?](https://oqro.io/learn/blog/oqro-vs-openinsider): OpenInsider is a screener for one form, SEC Form 4, with long date ranges and ready-made views of cluster buys and the largest purchases; OQRO adds Form 144, Congress trades, fund holdings and contracts, with a plain line and the official filing beside each record. This page records what each lists, as read on 9 October 2026. It does not say either is better.
- [How does OQRO compare with Quiver Quantitative?](https://oqro.io/learn/blog/oqro-vs-quiver-quantitative): Quiver Quantitative lists a wider set of datasets and a free tier; OQRO covers fewer kinds of data, puts a plain-language line and a link to the official filing on every record, and reads SEC insider filings about every five minutes. This page records what each says it offers and the price it lists, as read on 8 and 9 October 2026. It does not say either is better.
- [How does OQRO compare with Unusual Whales?](https://oqro.io/learn/blog/oqro-vs-unusual-whales): Unusual Whales is built around options flow, dark pool data and market tools, with a free plan; OQRO covers only filed disclosures (insider trades, Congress trades, fund holdings, contracts) and links each record to the official filing. This page records what each lists and the price it lists, as read on 9 October 2026. It does not say either is better.
- [How does OQRO compare with WhaleWisdom?](https://oqro.io/learn/blog/oqro-vs-whalewisdom): WhaleWisdom is a 13F specialist with history back to 2001, a screener, a backtester and a free tier; OQRO follows a selected set of 13F filers and puts their moves next to insider trades, Congress trades and federal contracts, each with a plain line and the official filing. This page records what each lists and the price it lists, as read on 9 October 2026. It does not say either is better.
- [What is OQRO?](https://oqro.io/learn/blog/what-is-oqro): OQRO is a subscription website and data service that collects what US-listed companies, large funds, members of Congress and federal agencies must disclose, and turns each filing into one plain line with a link to the official record. It covers insider trades, Congress stock trades, 13F fund holdings, 5% stakes, federal contracts and lobbying. It does not give investment advice.

## Guides and articles, free to read

These need no subscription. Each guide opens with the short answer, links the official form, works through one real public filing and lists common mistakes. The whole text of every guide and article is in one file: [llms-full.txt](https://oqro.io/llms-full.txt).

### Read an insider trade

- [What is an SEC Form 4?](https://oqro.io/learn/form-4): The filing in which a company's officers, directors and 10% owners report that they bought or sold its stock, due within two business days.
- [What is an insider's open-market purchase?](https://oqro.io/learn/open-market-purchase): When an insider buys their own company's shares on the stock market with their own money.
- [What is a Rule 10b5-1 trading plan?](https://oqro.io/learn/rule-10b5-1): A schedule of future trades an insider sets up in advance, which is why a sale under one tells you less than an unplanned sale.
- [What is an SEC Form 144?](https://oqro.io/learn/form-144): A notice that a company insider plans to sell shares. It says a sale is planned, not that it happened.

### Read a Congress disclosure

- [What is the STOCK Act?](https://oqro.io/learn/stock-act): The 2012 US law that makes members of Congress report their stock trades publicly.

### Read a fund filing

- [What is an SEC Form 13F?](https://oqro.io/learn/form-13f): The quarterly report in which large investment managers list the US stocks they held on the last day of the quarter.
- [Schedule 13D vs Schedule 13G: what is the difference?](https://oqro.io/learn/schedule-13d-13g): Both report a stake above 5% in a US company. A 13D says the holder may want to change something, and has to say what; a 13G says they are passive.

### Read a federal contract

- [Contract ceiling vs obligated amount: the difference](https://oqro.io/learn/contract-ceiling): A federal award carries two figures: the money the government has committed, and the most the contract could ever be worth. Headlines quote the second one.

### Blog

- [Which insider purchases stood out in the week of Sep 28 to Oct 4, 2026?](https://oqro.io/learn/blog/rare-insider-purchases-week-2026-40): Of 318 open-market insider purchases filed in the week of Sep 28 to Oct 4, 2026, ten stood out against their company's own record since 2006. Three of them, with their SEC filings. (published 2026-10-11, updated 2026-10-11)
- [What is a blind trust, and how does a qualified trust work?](https://oqro.io/learn/blog/blind-trust-qualified-trust): The Ethics in Government Act creates two kinds of qualified trust, blind and diversified, run by an independent trustee. What the executive-branch rules say. (published 2026-10-10, updated 2026-10-10)
- [Is it legal for a CEO to sell shares before bad news?](https://oqro.io/learn/blog/ceo-sell-shares-before-bad-news): A sale before bad news is illegal only if the seller was aware of material nonpublic information. What Rule 10b5-1 plans and cooling-off periods change. (published 2026-10-10, updated 2026-10-10)
- [What do the dollar ranges on a Congress trade report mean?](https://oqro.io/learn/blog/congress-ptr-value-ranges): Members of Congress report each trade as one of ten value categories, from $1,001-$15,000 up to over $50,000,000, based on the gross price. How to read them. (published 2026-10-10, updated 2026-10-10)
- [Are a Congress member's spouse and child trades reported?](https://oqro.io/learn/blog/congress-spouse-dependent-child-trades): Yes: a member's periodic transaction report covers securities owned by the member, a spouse or dependent children above $1,000. What SP, DC and JT mean. (published 2026-10-10, updated 2026-10-10)
- [How can you get free alerts for new SEC filings?](https://oqro.io/learn/blog/edgar-rss-alerts-new-filings): EDGAR search results can be turned into RSS feeds, including a Latest Filings feed filtered to insider forms 3, 4 and 5. How to set one up, and its limits. (published 2026-10-10, updated 2026-10-10)
- [What are executive orders and proclamations?](https://oqro.io/learn/blog/executive-orders-and-proclamations): Executive orders and proclamations are presidential documents in the daily Federal Register. How they are numbered, why publication lags, where to search. (published 2026-10-10, updated 2026-10-10)
- [What is FARA, and where can you search its filings?](https://oqro.io/learn/blog/fara-foreign-agents-registration-act): FARA, enacted in 1938, requires certain agents of foreign principals to register and report publicly. What it requires and where filings are searched. (published 2026-10-10, updated 2026-10-10)
- [What do modification numbers mean in a federal contract?](https://oqro.io/learn/blog/federal-contract-modifications-explained): A federal contract record is a chain of actions. What a modification number, a reason for modification and a negative obligation mean on USAspending. (published 2026-10-10, updated 2026-10-10)
- [How do you find a company's insider trades on EDGAR?](https://oqro.io/learn/blog/find-insider-trades-on-edgar): Use EDGAR company search, filter to ownership forms 3, 4 and 5, and open each filing. The steps, the other SEC tools, and the limits of the raw filings. (published 2026-10-10, updated 2026-10-10)
- [How do you read the tables on a Form 4?](https://oqro.io/learn/blog/form-4-tables-direct-indirect-ownership): Table I covers shares, Table II covers options and other derivatives. What each column shows, and what direct and indirect ownership mean on the form. (published 2026-10-10, updated 2026-10-10)
- [What are SEC Forms 3, 4 and 5, and when are they due?](https://oqro.io/learn/blog/forms-3-4-5-explained): Form 3 is the first report of an insider's holdings, Form 4 reports each change, Form 5 is a year-end catch-up. Who files each one and the deadlines. (published 2026-10-10, updated 2026-10-10)
- [30 terms in public disclosure, in plain English](https://oqro.io/learn/blog/glossary-30-public-disclosure-terms): 30 terms from insider, Congress, fund, contract and lobbying filings, each defined from the official source: Form 4, 13F, PTR, UEI, LD-2 and more. (published 2026-10-10, updated 2026-10-10)
- [How do the House and Senate publish stock trade disclosures?](https://oqro.io/learn/blog/house-vs-senate-disclosure-sites): House reports are filed with the Clerk, on paper or electronically, and the STOCK Act requires both chambers to post them online. What we could confirm. (published 2026-10-10, updated 2026-10-10)
- [What are LD-1, LD-2 and LD-203 lobbying reports?](https://oqro.io/learn/blog/ld-1-ld-2-ld-203-lobbying-reports): LD-1 registers a lobbyist, LD-2 reports lobbying activity each quarter, and LD-203 reports contributions twice a year. Deadlines and what each contains. (published 2026-10-10, updated 2026-10-10)
- [What are OGE Form 278e and OGE Form 278-T?](https://oqro.io/learn/blog/oge-278e-vs-278-t): OGE Form 278e is the executive-branch public financial disclosure report, and Form 278-T reports securities transactions between reports. Who files and when. (published 2026-10-10, updated 2026-10-10)
- [What is the difference between Schedule 13D and 13G?](https://oqro.io/learn/blog/schedule-13d-vs-13g): Both report a stake above 5 percent. Schedule 13D is for investors who may seek control, 13G for passive and institutional holders. Deadlines since 2023. (published 2026-10-10, updated 2026-10-10)
- [What is the six-month short-swing profit rule?](https://oqro.io/learn/blog/short-swing-profit-rule-section-16b): Section 16(b) lets a company recover profit an insider makes from a purchase and sale within six months. What the statute says and who can sue. (published 2026-10-10, updated 2026-10-10)
- [How does USAspending identify who received a contract?](https://oqro.io/learn/blog/usaspending-recipient-uei-parent): A USAspending recipient is a registered legal entity with a Unique Entity ID, sometimes an ultimate parent. Why a listed company may appear under another name. (published 2026-10-10, updated 2026-10-10)
- [What does a Form 13F leave out?](https://oqro.io/learn/blog/what-form-13f-leaves-out): A 13F lists long positions in US-listed equities at quarter end. It leaves out shorts, most foreign shares, trade dates and prices, and small managers. (published 2026-10-10, updated 2026-10-10)
- [What is short interest, and where does FINRA publish it?](https://oqro.io/learn/blog/what-is-short-interest-finra): Short interest is the short positions in a security that broker-dealers report to FINRA. What Rule 4560 requires, what FINRA publishes, and what it cannot show. (published 2026-10-10, updated 2026-10-10)
- [How long after quarter end do funds file a 13F?](https://oqro.io/learn/blog/when-13f-filings-are-due): Form 13F is due within 45 days after each quarter ends: mid-May, mid-August, mid-November and mid-February. The dates, amendments and what the lag means. (published 2026-10-10, updated 2026-10-10)
- [Who counts as an insider and has to file Form 4?](https://oqro.io/learn/blog/who-files-form-4-insiders): Directors, officers and owners of more than 10 percent of a company's registered stock must report their holdings and trades under Section 16. Who that covers. (published 2026-10-10, updated 2026-10-10)
- [Which officials must file financial disclosure reports?](https://oqro.io/learn/blog/who-files-public-financial-disclosures): The Ethics in Government Act requires the President, Vice President, Members of Congress, senior officials, nominees and candidates to file public reports. (published 2026-10-10, updated 2026-10-10)
- [Why are public disclosures always late?](https://oqro.io/learn/blog/why-disclosures-arrive-late): Every disclosure has a legal deadline: two business days for insiders, 45 days for Congress trades and 13F funds, 20 days for lobbying. The lag chain. (published 2026-10-10, updated 2026-10-10)
- [Can members of Congress trade stocks? What the STOCK Act requires, and what it does not](https://oqro.io/learn/blog/can-members-of-congress-trade-stocks): The STOCK Act of 2012 requires members of Congress to report stock trades within 30 days of notice and 45 days of the trade. It confirms insider trading law applies to them. What it says, and where a 2026 bill stands. (published 2026-10-09, updated 2026-10-09)
- [How to find the federal contracts a public company holds on USAspending](https://oqro.io/learn/blog/find-federal-contracts-for-a-public-company): Federal contract awards are public on USAspending.gov, but they are filed under recipient names, not tickers. How recipients, parents, UEIs, award types and modifications work, and the mistakes that distort a company total. (published 2026-10-09, updated 2026-10-09)
- [Where to find insider, Congress, contract and lobbying data for free: the official sources](https://oqro.io/learn/blog/free-insider-trading-and-congress-data-sources): Insider trades, Congress trades, fund holdings, federal contracts and lobbying reports all start as free public records. Where each lives, what it offers, its limits, and what a tracker such as OQRO adds. (published 2026-10-09, updated 2026-10-09)
- [How to read a congressional periodic transaction report, column by column](https://oqro.io/learn/blog/how-to-read-a-congress-periodic-transaction-report): A House periodic transaction report lists a member's stock trades in ten amount bands, with two dates and an owner code. What each column means, which trades are left out, and how long reports take to appear. (published 2026-10-09, updated 2026-10-09)
- [How to read a Form 144: the notice filed before an insider sells restricted or control stock](https://oqro.io/learn/blog/how-to-read-form-144): A Form 144 announces a planned sale under SEC Rule 144. What each part shows, when it must be filed, the six-month and one-year holding periods, the volume limit, and how it differs from a Form 4. (published 2026-10-09, updated 2026-10-09)
- [What is insider cluster buying, and what does the evidence show?](https://oqro.io/learn/blog/insider-cluster-buying): Cluster buying means several insiders of one company buying its stock in a short span. What the term does and does not mean, what one academic study found, what OQRO's own test found, and counts from one quarter of filings. (published 2026-10-09, updated 2026-10-09)
- [Is insider trading legal? Insiders buying their own stock versus trading on secret information](https://oqro.io/learn/blog/is-insider-trading-legal): Corporate insiders may legally buy and sell their company's stock if they report it. Trading while aware of material nonpublic information is illegal. What the SEC rules say, and what a Form 4 can and cannot show. (published 2026-10-09, updated 2026-10-09)
- [What a lobbying disclosure report (LD-2) contains, and what it leaves out](https://oqro.io/learn/blog/lobbying-disclosure-report-ld-2): Lobbyists file quarterly LD-2 reports under the Lobbying Disclosure Act. The fields, the rounding of amounts, the registration thresholds and penalties, and the rule that stops in-house and outside spending counting twice. (published 2026-10-09, updated 2026-10-09)
- [OQRO vs OpenInsider: what each lists](https://oqro.io/learn/blog/oqro-vs-openinsider): A dated, factual comparison of OQRO and OpenInsider, taken from OpenInsider's own home page: a Form 4 screener versus insider trades next to Congress, funds and contracts. (published 2026-10-09, updated 2026-10-09)
- [OQRO vs Quiver Quantitative: what each lists, and what each costs](https://oqro.io/learn/blog/oqro-vs-quiver-quantitative): A dated, factual comparison of OQRO and Quiver Quantitative, two services that track Congress trades, insider trades and fund filings, taken from each one's own public pages. (published 2026-10-09, updated 2026-10-09)
- [OQRO vs Unusual Whales: what each lists, and what each costs](https://oqro.io/learn/blog/oqro-vs-unusual-whales): A dated, factual comparison of OQRO and Unusual Whales, taken from each one's own public pages: filed disclosures versus options flow, what each lists and what each costs. (published 2026-10-09, updated 2026-10-09)
- [OQRO vs WhaleWisdom: what each lists, and what each costs](https://oqro.io/learn/blog/oqro-vs-whalewisdom): A dated, factual comparison of OQRO and WhaleWisdom, taken from WhaleWisdom's own pricing page: a 13F specialist versus fund holdings next to insider trades, Congress trades and contracts. (published 2026-10-09, updated 2026-10-09)
- [SEC Form 4 transaction codes: what P, S, A, M, F, G and the other letters mean](https://oqro.io/learn/blog/sec-form-4-transaction-codes): Every Form 4 transaction is labelled with a one-letter code. The full list from the SEC's instructions, which codes are real market purchases and sales, and how often each kind of record appears in OQRO's database. (published 2026-10-09, updated 2026-10-09)
- [What is OQRO? Insider trades, Congress trades, fund moves and federal contracts in plain words](https://oqro.io/learn/blog/what-is-oqro): OQRO is a subscription site that turns US public disclosures into one plain line each, with a link to the official filing. What it covers, where the data comes from, how fresh it is and what it costs. (published 2026-10-09, updated 2026-10-09)
- [When is a Form 4 late? The two-business-day deadline and what a late filing looks like](https://oqro.io/learn/blog/when-is-a-form-4-late): Insiders must file a Form 4 before the end of the second business day after a trade. How EDGAR counts the day, the exceptions for trading plans, how a late filing shows, and what OQRO's records show for one quarter. (published 2026-10-09, updated 2026-10-09)
- [Why a Congress trade disclosure can arrive weeks after the trade, and what the amount bands mean](https://oqro.io/learn/blog/congress-trade-disclosure-45-days): The STOCK Act gives members of Congress 30 days from notice and at most 45 days from the trade to report. What that means in practice, what the dollar bands are, and a real report worked through. (published 2026-10-08, updated 2026-10-08)
- [Contract ceiling versus obligated amount: how to read a federal award](https://oqro.io/learn/blog/contract-ceiling-vs-obligated): A federal contract can show a ceiling of billions and an obligation of zero. What each USAspending figure means, why a ceiling is not revenue, and a real contract worked through. (published 2026-10-08, updated 2026-10-08)
- [How to read an SEC Form 4 in five minutes](https://oqro.io/learn/blog/form-4-in-five-minutes): A Form 4 is the filing an insider sends the SEC after trading their company's stock. Four passes through the form, with a real filing worked through line by line. (published 2026-10-08, updated 2026-10-08)
- [OQRO and other public-disclosure trackers: what each one covers](https://oqro.io/learn/blog/oqro-and-other-disclosure-trackers): A dated, factual comparison of OQRO with SEC EDGAR, Quiver Quantitative, Unusual Whales, OpenInsider and WhaleWisdom, taken from each product's own public pages, with what OQRO does not do. (published 2026-10-08, updated 2026-10-08)
- [Rule 10b5-1 plans: what they are and what an insider sale does and does not tell you](https://oqro.io/learn/blog/rule-10b5-1-plans-insider-sales): How a pre-arranged trading plan works, what the SEC's 2022 rules changed, how to see a plan on a Form 4, and what the research says about planned and unplanned insider trades. (published 2026-10-08, updated 2026-10-08)
- [What a Form 13F does and does not tell you](https://oqro.io/learn/blog/what-a-13f-shows): A 13F lists the US-listed shares an investment manager held at the end of a quarter. What the SEC says it covers, what it leaves out, and a real filing read row by row. (published 2026-10-08, updated 2026-10-08)

The blog also has an [RSS feed](https://oqro.io/learn/blog/feed.xml).

## One disclosure at a time

Every disclosure OQRO holds also has a page that needs no subscription, at https://oqro.io/e/{id}: the company, who filed, the amount as it was filed, the dates that matter for that source, and a link to the official record. The newest 50,000 of these addresses (about the last 18 months) are listed in the sitemap; older ones are reached from the company, person and fund pages. The fuller page for the same disclosure, with the context OQRO calculates around it, is at https://oqro.io/events/{id} and is part of OQRO Pro.

## What is paid

Company, person, fund, day and disclosure pages are part of OQRO Pro. Without a subscription their addresses still answer, with the company's or the person's public identity and a description of what the page holds, marked as paywalled content. The free parts of the site are the guides and articles above, the per-disclosure share pages at /e/, the home page, the methodology, the data-quality and freshness pages, and this file.

## For AI assistants

- [MCP server](https://oqro.io/mcp): connect OQRO to Claude, ChatGPT or any MCP client at https://oqro.io/api/mcp (OQRO Pro subscribers sign in with OAuth; no API key) to query insider trades, politician trades, fund holdings and contracts directly
- [REST API](https://oqro.io/docs/api): read-only JSON endpoints for OQRO Pro members (personal API key), same data as the MCP server, with source_url and oqro_url on every row
- [Sitemap](https://oqro.io/sitemap.xml)

## About the publisher

OQRO is published by სტატუელ (identification code 405858852), 10A Aleksandre Kazbegi Ave., Apt. 52, Tbilisi, Georgia. Contact, corrections and press: contact@oqro.io.

## How to cite

Cite the OQRO event page and the official filing it links to. Disclosures are reported with a delay set by law: Form 4 within 2 business days, trades by members of Congress within 45 days, 13F within 45 days of quarter end.