Known Limitations

Transparency about current limitations and our roadmap

Data Coverage

  • Fund holdings are position-level and point-in-time from SEC N-PORT, 2019→present only — pre-2019 holdings do not exist (N-PORT did not) and are never synthesized
  • Insider data (SEC Forms 3/4/5) covers 2021→present; the Rule 10b5-1 plan flag is honestly NULL before 2023 (the SEC flag did not exist)
  • Institutional (13F) holdings: the endpoint exists but the dataset is NOT yet populated — it returns honest empties until the 13F build ships
  • Fundamentals: SEC XBRL with true first-filed vintages from ~2009-2010; earlier history (back to ~1983) is a licensed backfill — deepest for large caps, thinner for small and delisted names, with estimated filing dates flagged (filing_date_estimated)
  • Intraday prices not available — this is an end-of-day platform (daily bars; no real-time or delayed feed)
  • Universe is US-listed securities: foreign issuers are covered via their US listings (20-F/40-F IFRS filers, ADRs) — non-US exchange listings are not covered
  • SD2000 (our own small-cap index): annual point-in-time bands are honestly thinner in early years (431 names in 2000) — published as-is, never padded

API

  • Bulk (Parquet) downloads limited to the Quant tier
  • All data is end-of-day — there is no streaming or real-time API

Data Quality

  • Some legacy filings may have parsing errors
  • Custom XBRL tags may not map to standard fields
  • Corporate action history may be incomplete pre-2000
  • Fields we cannot source are served as NULL (honest-null), never imputed — meta.coverage flags what is populated

Performance

  • Large bulk queries may timeout on free tier
  • Alerts limited to paid subscribers

Roadmap

In build

  • Institutional (13F) holdings — capture pipeline exists; served once populated
  • Additional fund corporate-action types (liquidations, mergers, name/fee changes) — already captured from SEC filings, served per-type as each passes its precision eval (splits are live)

Exploring

  • Options data
  • Advanced analytics API

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