Comments on: How to Find Value Stocks and Ideas

By: Jae Jun

Jae Jun — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 06:22:46 +0000

remember to check your date in the search string. I think the RSS will just grab that date as well. You don’t want to be left with nothing but old data.

By: john

john — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 21:02:24 +0000

Jae, thanks for answering my question. Also, I do see the RSS and added it to my google reader! Thanks!

By: Jae Jun

Jae Jun — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 05:49:44 +0000

Did you all see that the search string for the SEC now has a RSS link in the results?

Awesome stuff! Customize all you want and then grab that RSS link for each combination. Bloody fantastic.

By: Jae Jun

Jae Jun — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 05:48:31 +0000

@ john,

Companies file SC TO forms for various reasons but it is usually for stock tenders and reverse splits.

I can’t remember everything but here is a website that references all the different types of forms submitted.
http://learn.westlawbusiness.com/support/formtypes.html

Alex above posted that for spinoffs you use FORM-TYPE=10-12b

By: john

john — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 04:48:45 +0000

Jae,

I noticed the SC TO form also comes up from the search string. Is that different from the 13-e? will it always come up together with the 13-e?

also, are there other forms used in special situations setups?

thanks for the education!

By: Bibi

Bibi — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 19:08:28 +0000

Very nice. Thanks for this.

By: Alex

Alex — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 06:33:34 +0000

I believe I figured it out. The below should return spin off situations.

FORM-TYPE=10-12b

By: Jae Jun

Jae Jun — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 09:13:46 +0000

Try looking at what forms were submitted for companies that already spun off children companies. Interactive Corp is a good one to look at.

By: Alex

Alex — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 07:04:09 +0000

Does anyone know how to change the search to look for spin off situations? I tried searching for form 10, but I don’t get any results.

By: Alan

Alan — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 21:58:03 +0000

Thanks!

By: Jae Jun

Jae Jun — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 18:15:15 +0000

@ Alan,

I should have mentioned that the sec server is very slow and unreliable when it comes to searching and entering queries.

I get the same error quite often. Just keep refreshing and you’ll get the results 3/10 times.

So go to http://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/srch-edgar and then enter the search string.

By: Alan

Alan — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 18:08:21 +0000

Hopefully not a stupid question. You said you had a shortcut on your toolbar linking to the query “FORM-TYPE=13e3 FILING-DATE=200908*”

I went to the edgar website and that query is rejected. Exactly how did you create that query? On what page? Be simple in your response, please.

Thanks

By: Jae Jun

Jae Jun — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 05:56:25 +0000

@ Rene,

This is exactly what I was looking for! Thank you so much Rene. Makes life easier. I don’t mind manually updating each month.
I hope other readers actually read the content, otherwise they’ll be missing out.

Now I’ll just have to figure out how to use it.

By: Rene Nederhand

Rene Nederhand — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 21:32:19 +0000

You can use a service like feed43 to extract exactly the data you need and convert it into an RSS feed. No programming needed.
I just did that with filing type 13e3. You can find the result here: http://feed43.com/historical13e3.xml

Realtime (most current additions) can be find here:
http://feed43.com/realtime13e3.xml (At the time of this post no new filing have been made, hence the list will be empty)

Please keep in mind that you will have to update the date in the first url every month. I’ll see if I can change that.

Maybe something to offer on your weblog?

By: Jae Jun

Jae Jun — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 20:39:10 +0000

The RSS tool at F Wall Street was for annual reports but I’m after the ability to specifically choose the form types.
Maybe I should take up programming in my spare spare time.

By: slinj

slinj — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 12:51:15 +0000

I believe there is currently rss feed at SEC website, so you can get the update automatically. Joe (Fwallstreet) mentioned this in his blog. I haven’t try that out myself though, wasn’t too much an issue for me to go back and check on it periodically.

By: Jae Jun

Jae Jun — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 21:29:02 +0000

I have thought of that for a while but I’m not a programmer so unfortunately it is out of my scope and I don’t think anyone is going to do it for free…
But it can and has been done by programmers. The only question is whether anyone wants to spend possibly hundreds of dollars for it.

I’ll just stick to my simple button on the toolbar

By: Carrigaline

Carrigaline — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 10:01:59 +0000

I was actually just considering the very topic you’re talking about. You’re correct in stating that the SEC is the primary repository of information regarding stocks. With such great data there, it got me thinking. Surely there’s a better way of getting it, then it hit me, RSS feeds! There has to be a tech-whizz out there who could set up RSS alerts based on ticker symbol/form filings? Rather than having to manually check for filings, you could simply get recent filings pushed to you.

What do you reckon?
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