Scoring methodology

Composite Score (Form 4)

The Composite Score is FilingIQ's headline signal for SEC Form 4 insider transactions. It runs across our full historical corpus, more than 3.4 million transactions across more than 1.9 million filings, and produces a 0-100 score for every open-market purchase or sale.

The model is a weighted combination of factor families spanning insider context, trade structure, and market environment. The factor families:

• Insider context: seniority of the reporting person (CEO, CFO, 10% owners, directors), prior conviction history, and indirect / related-party reporting structure.
• Trade structure: transaction code, plan-driven vs discretionary execution (Rule 10b5-1), and position sizing relative to the insider's existing holdings.
• Market context: issuer-level valuation, trade timing within the prevailing range, and cross-signal alignment with other FilingIQ models.

Factor weights and threshold cutoffs are part of the model and not published in full.

Institutional Flow Score (IFS)

IFS scores 13F-derived institutional accumulation across the active 13F universe, on a quarterly cadence. The current production model combines several institutional-flow components into a single 0-100 score per ticker per quarter, with each component converted to a cross-sectional percentile within the quarter.

IFS has iterated across multiple research generations and is still experimental. It is off by default in the app and we publish it as a research preview. Component weights and the exact composition are part of the deployed model and not enumerated here.

Congressional Political Score (CPS)

CPS scores Congressional stock trades disclosed under the STOCK Act. Inputs include committee-relevance context, sector concentration in the member's broader disclosed portfolio, and timing of the disclosed trade relative to surrounding congressional activity. Specific factor composition and weighting are part of the internal model. Like IFS, CPS is still experimental and off by default in the app.

Data refresh cadence

Known caveats

• Warrant and derivative leakage: a small fraction of derivative-instrument Form 4 transactions can score as conviction buys when the underlying derivative settlement metadata is incomplete. Affected tickers are reviewed manually; corrections are reflected on the next nightly export.
• Dual-listed currency footnotes: a small set of dual-listed issuers (Australian, UK, German cross-listings) have historically reported share prices in their home currency without an explicit USD conversion. Where detected, totals are corrected; where not detected, the raw value is preserved with a footnote.
• Ticker resolution gaps in Congressional disclosures: STOCK Act filings are free-text and a meaningful share of historical rows have security descriptions that do not unambiguously match a public-equity ticker. Unresolved rows are excluded from CPS scoring but remain visible in the raw feed.
• Composite score availability: coverage of open-market transactions is above 99.9 percent from 2018 through 2025. 2016 and 2017 are thinner, 2016 in particular sits near 75 percent, and the current year runs behind because scoring trails ingestion.