CFTC Commitments of Traders
Weekly (Tuesday close)Long/short positioning by trader category — commercial, non-commercial, open interest — for tracked futures contracts.
Shows what hedgers think versus speculators. The spread is a contrarian signal in commodities and rates.
- Coverage
- 2020
- Granularity
- Contract × week
- Upstream
- CFTC Socrata API
GET/v1/alt/cftc/positions/{code}
FEMA Disaster Declarations
DailyFederally declared hurricanes, floods, wildfires, severe storms by event type, state, and date.
Disasters move oil, natural gas, insurance, homebuilders. The data is available before it's fully priced in.
- Coverage
- 2019
- Granularity
- One row per declaration
- Upstream
- OpenFEMA
GET/v1/alt/weather/events
Wikipedia Attention
DailyDaily pageview counts for the company's Wikipedia article — raw counts, no smoothing.
Moat et al. (2013): pageview spikes correlate with next-day volume and volatility.
- Coverage
- 2015
- Granularity
- Daily pageviews per article
- Upstream
- Wikimedia REST API
GET/v1/alt/wiki/{symbol}
Federal Register
DailyRules and proposed rules from the SEC, FDA, EPA, FTC and other federal agencies.
When a regulator proposes a rule on crypto custody or fast-track drug review, sectors move. This is the source of record.
- Coverage
- 2020
- Granularity
- One row per document
- Upstream
- federalregister.gov
GET/v1/alt/regulations
Lobbying Disclosures
DailyLobbying Disclosure Act filings — registrant, client, period, dollar amount, and the legislative issue codes the spend targeted.
Lobbying spend leads regulatory outcomes. The escalation curve in DEF/TAX/TEC issue codes is a clean signal in defense, pharma, and crypto names.
- Coverage
- 2020
- Granularity
- One row per LD-1/LD-2 filing; nested issue codes
- Upstream
- Senate LDA filings
GET/v1/alt/lobbying
Congressional Trades
DailyHouse and Senate member trade disclosures filed under the STOCK Act.
Multiple academic studies show congressional portfolios outperform the market. Disclosures are public records.
- Coverage
- 2020
- Granularity
- One row per disclosed trade
- Upstream
- STOCK Act disclosures
GET/v1/alt/congress/trades
WARN Mass-Layoff Notices
WeeklyWARN Act 60-day advance notices of plant closings and mass layoffs, ticker-matched where possible.
Mass layoffs are a leading distress signal — they precede the BLS jobs print and the deteriorating earnings call.
- Coverage
- 2020
- Granularity
- One row per notice
- Upstream
- State workforce agencies (TX, NY, …)
GET/v1/alt/warn/notices
H-1B / LCA Filings
QuarterlyLabor Condition Applications aggregated to certified headcount, prevailing wage, and approval rate by occupation.
A surge in LCAs for AI researchers or chip designers often precedes a product line that won't hit the transcript for a year.
- Coverage
- 2020
- Granularity
- Employer × SOC code × fiscal quarter
- Upstream
- DOL Office of Foreign Labor Certification
GET/v1/alt/h1b
Hiring Velocity
DailyOpen-role counts by department for companies on major recruitment platforms.
Sales-team expansion leads revenue. New departments (e.g. "AI Infrastructure") expose strategy before it's announced.
- Coverage
- 2024 (Time series retained)
- Granularity
- Company × department × day
- Upstream
- Major job boards
GET/v1/alt/hiring/{symbol}
GitHub Repository Activity
Daily snapshot, weekly commit statsStars, forks, open issues, and commit cadence for each company's top 50 public repos.
Developer velocity in public repos is a clean proxy for engineering execution at open-core and platform companies.
- Coverage
- Variable (per-repo history)
- Granularity
- One row per tracked repo per day
- Upstream
- GitHub Search + Repos API
GET/v1/github/{symbol}/metrics
Subdomain Discovery
WeeklyNewly observed subdomains under each company's primary domain — the timestamp is the signal.
New product subdomains, staging hosts, and acquisition rebrands surface here weeks before press releases.
- Coverage
- 2024
- Granularity
- One row per (domain, subdomain) with discovered_at
- Upstream
- subfinder (passive DNS aggregators)
GET/v1/subdomains/{symbol}/subdomains
Port Congestion & Throughput
MonthlyContainer throughput, vessel counts, and dwell times across major US ports — TEUs, vessel calls, and cargo tonnage.
Port delays are a leading indicator for retailer margins, shipping rates, and goods-producing PMI. LA/LB congestion moved COST and WMT weeks before earnings.
- Coverage
- 2010
- Granularity
- Port × metric × month
- Upstream
- Bureau of Transportation Statistics
GET/v1/alt/ports/throughput