The short of it
- A sec edgar company search indexes filings by company or filer rather than searching the text of every document
- Traderbot's mirror holds 2,609 fund lines, 9,153 congressional lines and 335 officer lines pulled from the same public record
- None of Traderbot's four filing-based strategies beat the 13.7%-a-year S&P 500 benchmark over the tested window
- Form 4 gives an officer or director two working days to report a trade, far tighter than the 45-day window for form 13F
What sec edgar company search actually returns
A sec edgar company search pulls up every filing a company has made with the regulator, indexed by company name or ticker rather than by date alone. Traderbot's own mirror is built from the same public record: 2,609 fund lines, 9,153 congressional lines and 335 officer lines, gathered from 13 managers and 143 members of the House.
Once a manager's US shares pass $100 million, form 13F comes due within 45 days of the quarter end, and every one of those filings is the kind of document a company search on EDGAR surfaces directly.
Berkshire Hathaway, run by Warren Buffett, filed one such 13F on 2026-08-14, reporting $299,253,556,246.00 across 27 positions. A search for the company's name on EDGAR returns that filing alongside its full filing history, the newest one included.
Sec edgar search and edgar search: same tool, two names
People type sec edgar search and edgar search into a search bar meaning the same thing: the free-text lookup the regulator runs across every filing on record. It differs from a company search, which narrows the result to one filer's own history rather than searching the text of every document at once.
Both tools sit on the same underlying database, so a filing found one way can always be found the other way too, just reached through a different starting point. Renaissance Technologies, run by Jim Simons, filed its own 13F on 2026-08-13, reporting $72,617,871,974.00 spread across 3,116 positions, a filing that either search method turns up equally well.
Sec edgar database company search behind Traderbot's mirror
A sec edgar database company search is where Traderbot's institutional strategies start. The newest filing Traderbot has read was filed 2026-08-14, and the mirror behind it holds filings from managers, House members and company officers alike, each one traceable back to the same public database.
Nothing in that mirror is invented or estimated. Every line comes from a filing that was itself required by law, on a schedule the regulator sets rather than one Traderbot chooses.
Coatue Management, run by Philippe Laffont, filed on the same day as Berkshire Hathaway, reporting $48,629,053,706.00 across 65 positions. A company search on either name returns the filing directly, with no need to know the filing date in advance.
Edgar company search, form by form
An edgar company search on a member of Congress turns up something different from a search on an institutional manager. The STOCK Act gives a member of Congress 30 to 45 days to report a trade on a periodic transaction report, while an officer, a director or a holder of more than 10 percent of a company files form 4 within two working days of a trade, a far tighter window than either the STOCK Act or form 13F allow.
That gap in reporting speed is part of why the strategies built on each type of filing behave so differently once backtested. A rule reacting to a two-day filing sees a signal much sooner than one waiting on a full 45-day window, even if both ultimately point at the same underlying trade.
Sec us company search versus us sec search: the same result
Whether typed as sec us company search or us sec search, both phrases point at the same government database rather than at two different tools. The Senate publishes similar disclosures behind a browser agreement that refuses an automated request, so Traderbot reads the House of Representatives only, which is why its congressional strategy covers House members and not senators. That single limitation shapes what a filing-based strategy can and cannot see across the entire federal government.
Four strategies, one public record
Traderbot built four trading strategies directly on filings a company search like this one would surface. Each started from $10,000.00 on 2017-01-03 and is measured against a plain S&P 500 fund, which returned 13.7% a year across the same window.
| Strategy | Annual return | Deepest fall | Ending value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Institutional Consensus | 13.0% | 46.9% | $32,381.38 |
| Fund Mirror | 6.2% | 21.8% | $17,820.18 |
| Capitol Flow | 2.0% | 60.0% | $12,051.65 |
| Insider Cluster | 0.8% | 35.1% | $10,771.27 |
None of the four beat the benchmark. Institutional Consensus, built from the widest base of filings across 13 managers, came closest; Insider Cluster, built on a narrower signal of officers buying inside a single month, finished weakest of the group. Capitol Flow, built on the House disclosures rather than corporate filings, sat between the two with a 60.0% deepest fall, the roughest ride of any strategy in the table.
Checking a filing yourself
Nine years and roughly seven months separate 2017-01-03 from 2026-08-14. Compounding $10,000.00 at Institutional Consensus's 13.0% a year across that stretch, by hand, lands close to $32,200, within a few hundred dollars of the strategy's actual $32,381.38 ending value, a gap small enough to trust the published rate.
Anyone can rerun the same lookup through SEC EDGAR company search or the SEC EDGAR full-text search tool, both free and both built on the same underlying filings Traderbot's mirror reads.
Traderbot runs these four filing-based strategies on the mirror page rather than against a live brokerage account. The balance there holds simulated money only, and Traderbot charges one percent on every operation that moves it, deposit, withdrawal, buy, sell or plan payment alike.