Bourse Tutorials
Guides and walkthroughs for getting the most out of Bourse, whether you are exploring the data in the app, following a strategy, or pulling the data into your own code with the API.
Start hereNew here? Start with the basicsWhat Bourse tracks, where the data comes from and how to read your first insider or Congress trade.Read the guideBourse app
Finding and using the data in the app
01GuideRead the guideHow to track Congress trades and insider buying for freeA tour of the main tools: the Radar with Congress and insider trades, alerts, the watchlist and where each dataset lives.02GuideRead the guideHow to read an SEC Form 4Transaction codes, prices, ownership after the trade and the footnotes that change the meaning of a filing.03GuideRead the guideCongress trades and the STOCK ActWhat members of Congress must disclose, how fast, and how to read a periodic transaction report.04GuideRead the guideHow late is Congress trade data?Why a trade can appear up to 45 days later and how Bourse shows the disclosure lag for every trade.05GuideRead the guideWhat is Form 13F?What fund holdings reveal, what they hide and how to use the Funds view in Bourse.
Strategies & research
Turning the data into a repeatable process
06GuideRead the guideInsider cluster buying explainedWhy several insiders buying at once matters more than a single purchase, and how the Insider Clusters strategy uses it.07GuideRead the guideHow to analyze 13F changesNew, added, trimmed and exited positions: reading quarter-on-quarter changes in fund portfolios.08GuideRead the guideA 5-step workflow for researching a stockFrom the filing to a decision: insiders, funds, earnings and risk in one routine.09GuideRead the guideHow to read an earnings report in 10 minutesRevenue, EPS, margins and guidance: what to check first after a quarterly report.10ToolOpenBacktested strategiesAI models, Inverse Cramer, Trump Portfolio, Congress long-short and copies of famous 13F portfolios, with return, CAGR, Sharpe and drawdown.11GuideOpenUpcoming trades and watching a strategySee what a strategy will buy and sell at the next rebalance and get a push alert when it trades.
Bourse API
Building with Bourse data in code
12Setup guideOpenGetting set up with the Bourse APIGet a free key in the app, make your first request and filter by ticker and date. Examples in curl, Python and JavaScript.13API tutorialOpenPull insider purchases for one tickerOne request returns every open-market purchase (Form 4 code P) for a company, ready for a spreadsheet or a backtest.14API tutorialOpenTrack what Congress bought this monthFilter Congress trades by date and transaction type and send yourself a daily summary.15API tutorialOpenTrump’s trades and estimated portfolioPull the President’s 278-T transactions for one ticker and his estimated portfolio in two requests.16API tutorialOpenScore Jim Cramer’s callsEvery Mad Money call with the return since, hit rate of buy and sell calls and a comparison with SPY.17API tutorialOpenPython, pandas and CSV in five linesDownload bourse.py, page through any dataset and get a DataFrame or a CSV for Excel.
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Bourse collects Congress trades, SEC Form 4 insider filings and 13F fund holdings in one live feed, and flags insider buying clusters automatically. Free to start.