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Companies hide negative news with unrelated press releases alongside SEC filings

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Re: Companies hide negative news with unrelated press releases alongside SEC filings

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Post by rekttrader »

dpflan wrote: post #2

How can a lay-person investor get as-soon-as-possible access to recently filed form 8-K? What's the gate and delay time?

Generally 24-48 hours depending on when Edgar updates. You can also download the daily filings directly from the sec.... it’s what Bloomberg does.

Re: Companies hide negative news with unrelated press releases alongside SEC filings

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Post by siftrics »

dpflan wrote: post #2

How can a lay-person investor get as-soon-as-possible access to recently filed form 8-K? What's the gate and delay time?

All 8-Ks are available to the public on the SEC's EDGAR wesbite. As far as I know, 8-Ks are posted there on the day of filing. That could be wrong and there may be a quicker way to get them.

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Post by rmah »

dpflan wrote: post #2

How can a lay-person investor get as-soon-as-possible access to recently filed form 8-K? What's the gate and delay time?

There's no delay, they're available immediately to everyone on the SEC EDGAR site (https://www.sec.gov/edgar).

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Post by breput »

dpflan wrote: post #2

How can a lay-person investor get as-soon-as-possible access to recently filed form 8-K? What's the gate and delay time?

This is practically real time: https://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/browse-edgar?company=&CIK=&type=...

also available as an RSS/Atom format feed: https://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/browse-edgar?action=getcurrent&C...

There is also a paid-for service called PDS (https://www.sec.gov/oit/announcement/public-dissemination-se...) which isn't necessarily any faster but can be more reliable.

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Post by xwdv »

dpflan wrote: post #2

How can a lay-person investor get as-soon-as-possible access to recently filed form 8-K? What's the gate and delay time?

Before you think about making something that quickly reads 8-K filings and acts upon it: don’t bother. A bunch of entities are already doing this way faster than you ever can through various methods and by the time you get the data the opportunity to act is gone.
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