How this record is made

The sources

Every filing on Midas traces to an official public source. We read them directly — no data vendors, no second-hand aggregation — and each published event links to the document it came from.

The two clocks

Every trade in this record has two dates, and we treat both as first-class: the day the trade happened, and the day it was disclosed to the public. The gap between them — the sealed interval — is drawn on every filing, because it is part of the record: it is how long the law allowed the position to stay private.

We never present a disclosure as if it happened today. A filing that surfaces this morning about a trade made six weeks ago is reported exactly that way.

Ranges, never midpoints

Congressional, judicial and executive-branch filings disclose amounts in statutory brackets — “$1,000,001 to $5,000,000” is the whole truth the document contains. We publish that band, drawn to scale, and never compute an average, an estimate, or a midpoint from it. A number we cannot source is a number we do not print.

Where the law requires exact figures — SEC Form 4, EU PDMR notices — we publish the exact figure, marked with its provenance. The contrast between the two treatments is deliberate: it shows you what each regime actually reveals.

Cadence and freshness

EDGAR is read continuously through each business day; House, Senate, OGE, judicial and EU sources are read at least daily. When a source publishes slowly, the delay is theirs, and the record says so — every surface distinguishes “they have not filed” from “we have not checked.”

If a source goes down or changes format, the affected cohort carries a notice until ingestion is verified again. We would rather show a dated record honestly than a fresh-looking one silently.

Corrections and amendments

Filers amend. When an amended filing supersedes an original, we publish the amendment and keep the original visible as history — struck through, never deleted. When our own parsing errs, we correct the entry and mark it corrected with a timestamp. Low-confidence parses are held for human review before they are published at all.

Found an error we haven't? Tell us — corrections ship with the next daily read.

What this record is not

This is journalism about public documents, not advice. A disclosure is a fact about what a powerful person did with their own money, weeks ago, under compulsion of law. It is not a recommendation by them — or by us — of what you should do with yours.

Midas republishes these records because they are public by law and deserve a public that can actually read them. Start with the record itself.