Red Flag Radar
Catch accounting red flags in SEC filings, free + API
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Catch accounting red flags in SEC filings, free + API
4 followers
Red Flag Radar scans SEC EDGAR filings and surfaces accounting, audit and governance red flags: restatements, going-concern, auditor changes, late filings. Each one is scored, linked to the source filing, and free to browse. Plus a point-in-time forensic features API for builders.
How often do you refresh the filings and update the scores, and does the API let me pull historical red flag data for a specific ticker going back a few years?
@emelzgbk Thanks Emel, two good questions.
Refresh: EDGAR is polled continuously through the day, so a new 8-K or 10-K is picked up and scored within [X] of hitting the SEC. Scores are point-in-time: once a flag is computed as-of a filing date it never silently changes — if a later rule version would score it differently, the original stays intact and the new one is versioned alongside it. No look-ahead.
Historical by ticker: yes, that's the core of it. The API returns the full point-in-time history for an issuer, so you get every flag as it would have looked on the date it was filed, which is what you need for a clean backtest with no survivorship bias (companies that later delisted or went bankrupt stay in the data). Depth depends on tier; happy to send you a sample for a specific ticker if you want to see the shape before touching the API.
Linking every flag straight back to the actual SEC filing instead of a hand-wavey summary is the right call, makes the whole thing feel built by people who actually do diligence.
@yusufbakkuxn Appreciate that, Yusuf, it's exactly the bet. Anyone can post a summary; linking each flag to the filing and the specific triggering language is what makes it checkable rather than trust-me. That verifiability is the whole product, so it's good to hear it lands.