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Public securities transactions in one stock disclosed by members of the US government - congressional STOCK Act filings, executive-branch OGE Form 278-T reports and federal judges' periodic transaction reports.
Available Data Points:
- Transaction Date: When the transaction was made (
YYYY-MM-DD). - Report Date: The date on the filing that disclosed it (
YYYY-MM-DD). - Published At: When the filing was observed publicly, as an ISO 8601 timestamp; null where only the report date is known. Use this rather than the transaction date when testing a strategy: filers have up to 45 days to disclose.
- USD Value: The disclosed value band, e.g.
$1001-$15000; a single figure where exact. - Transaction Type: The transaction type as disclosed, e.g. Buy, Sell, Sell (Partial), Exchange.
- Filer Name: The official who filed.
- Filer Photo / Filer Website: The filer's official portrait and website, where available.
- Party: The filer's political party; empty for executive-branch and judicial filers.
- Chamber: House, Senate, Executive or Judicial.
- Branch: Legislative (House and Senate), Executive or Judicial.
- Committees: The committees the filer sits on. For executive-branch filers this holds their agency, for judicial filers their court.
Filtering
from_date is required and to_date defaults to today; both bound the transaction date. Results are ordered by report date, most recent first. The window filters on the transaction date, as v1 does - not on when the trade became public. A trade can be disclosed up to 45 days after it was made, so a backtest that must not see a trade before its disclosure should request a wider window and filter on publishedAt (or reportDate where publishedAt is null).
Try it out! You can test the API with the trial key TEST. Simply include it in your request headers; either here, or add the header "Ortex-Api-Key": "TEST" to your http request.
Trial key restrictions: Trial keys may be limited to a specific date range and set of regions. Requests outside the allowed regions or entirely outside the allowed date range are rejected; a date window that partially overlaps the allowed range is trimmed to it, reported in meta.restriction.
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