Securities & Exchange Commission Edgar Reports

This Website must have been outsourced. It's way too good

EDGAR is a great tool and easy to use. More importantly, it works unlike the SEC.

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For what it's worth, a great reference

The SEC sure as hell can't keep up with the big boys who run the game, but if you need to grab reports that give you the primary numbers of a company's financial spreads, insider transactions, on-the-record news releases, etc., this is the place to go. Recommended.

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Use it when you want to do deep DD on a stock

If you are a pennystock trader than you should know that SEC filings are the most reliable info in this gutter. Thanks goes to EDGAR Database system as we can have it for free. Though the system is old and ugly you might use secfiling.com or something else as a front-system to this database.

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There's only a few resources 4 us little people,so roll w it

I dislike the SEC's porn-by-day-3-hour-Happy-Hour-afterward policy much as anybody, but this is the best we've got without trying to penetrate the inner hallways of the largest institutions (and you damn sure wouldn't be at Investimonials if you were in that far, now would you?). Take what you can get. Their database functions are good, sure reports are after-the-fact with respect to the moves of the big boys, but know where to feed & where to avoid, you'll be alright.

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Essential Primary Source for Investors

(Please note I am not rating the SEC itself as an organization, but rather just the website linked which is the EDGAR system)

The EDGAR system may be my favorite service the US Gov't provides. It's comprehensive, timely and accountable. Almost mythical qualities when describing a gov't body.

What it is, for those who have never used it, is a repository for all the invetsor and accounting filings of publicly traded companies (10-k , 10-Q, 8-K etc). This is straight from the horses's mouth. Not the PR releases, conference calls or interpretations you find elsewher eon the web. It's where the bodies are buried in the footnotes and risks. Where the actual results must presented accurately or the companies risk legal action.



Besides a decent search function and comprehensive lsitings, they have RSS feeds you can the latest filings sent to you, that's extremely valuable as it can help you act promptly if need be if major news affects one of your holdings.

The SEC is supposedly replacing EDGAR with IDEA in the coming years, but we'll see how that goes. IDEA has very big shoes to fill.

Every EVERY Investor should know and use this resource. Frankly I find it impossible to Due Diligence correctly without it. very few people will ever tell you the negatives of a company. it's up to you to find them and this is where.

It can be useful for some traders as well in evaluating their plays, but this site is more sueful for investors.

EDGAR may not be the prettiest or sexiest site out there but it likely is the most important financial website there is today. I reccommend it to anyone.

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A must for fundamental analysis

If you get to the bottom of things and need to research a company these files are very important. They reveal a lot of information often overlooked in the media.

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For the Source

Great place to get factual data and to dig through the various trading rules for institutional investors. More a tool for the professional trader and it is a boring website. They should give more bullet points on their documents.

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Financial Reports... That Is All

all financial reports from any company. It could be a great site if it used the data to create a screener, or even a massive data base for all investors. It is reliable, and trustworthy.

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