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Filing alerts for the stocks in your portfolio with SEC Stock Signals

Important company news often lands in an SEC filing before it reaches a headline. SEC Stock Signals watches filings for the companies on your watchlist and tells you what changed and why it may matter.

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SEC Stock Signals sends an alert when a new filing hits a company on your watchlist, with a plain explanation of what changed.
Example alert. Names and numbers are illustrative.

Key takeaways

The short version.

  • Filings such as an 8-K can carry important news about a company you own, and they are easy to miss.
  • SEC Stock Signals alerts you in real time when a filing hits a company on your watchlist.
  • Each alert explains what changed and what it could mean for your holding, with a link to the original.
  • Get alerts by text, by email, or in your favorite AI; a personal AI such as Instinct or Muse is a natural fit.
  • The app reports and explains. It never gives investment advice and never trades for you.

Who it is for

Why do I keep missing news about the stocks I own?

  • If you own a handful of stocks, you probably know the problem.

  • Even when you do open a filing, it can be long and written in dense legal language.

  • SEC Stock Signals is built for people in exactly this spot: individual investors, people who follow a short list of companies, and anyone…

If you own a handful of stocks, you probably know the problem. Something important happens at a company, like a leadership change, and you find out days later from a headline, or not at all. The first official word usually comes in a filing with the SEC, but nobody has time to check the filing database every morning for every company they hold.

Even when you do open a filing, it can be long and written in dense legal language. It is hard to tell in a few minutes whether it is routine paperwork or a real change to the business.

SEC Stock Signals is built for people in exactly this spot: individual investors, people who follow a short list of companies, and anyone who uses a personal AI and wants it to know what is happening on their watchlist. You pick the companies. The app watches the filings and sends you an alert when something new arrives, with an explanation of what changed and what it could mean for your holding.

One boundary matters. The app reports and explains. It does not give investment advice, and it never buys or sells anything on its own. The decisions stay with you.

Use cases

4 ways people use Filing alerts for the stocks in your portfolio.

  1. Executive change

    1. A leadership change at a company you own

    Say you hold a company for the long term and trust its management. One morning it files an 8-K saying its chief financial officer is changing. In the past you might have noticed this a week later, if ever.

    With SEC Stock Signals on your watchlist, the alert arrives when the filing does. It says what changed and what it could mean for your holding, with a link to the original. You can read the source yourself, then decide whether this is worth a closer look or just a routine handover.

  2. Morning check

    2. A daily check that takes seconds

    Not every day brings news, and you do not want to dig through filings to find that out. If you have connected your AI assistant, you can simply ask whether anything is new on your watchlist today.

    The answer is short: how many new filings there are, a summary of what changed and why it may matter, and a link to the original. If nothing came in, you know you can move on with your day. If something did, you know exactly where to look.

  3. Ticker lookup

    3. Checking one ticker before you act

    Sometimes you are not waiting for an alert. You are thinking about a position and want to see what has been filed lately. Ticker and watchlist lookups let your AI assistant pull that up on request. They are part of the premium tools, which are free during the beta.

    This turns a vague worry into a specific question you can answer in a minute, using the original filings rather than rumors. What you do with that information is up to you.

  4. Signal or noise

    4. Telling real signals from noise

    Not every filing matters equally, and it helps to see them grouped sensibly. The free plan includes event-study verdicts, integrity checks, and event families, which give you a way to sort what you are looking at and judge how much weight to give it.

    The practical result is less time spent on routine filings and more attention on the ones that actually change the picture for a company you own.

On your phone

What the alerts look like.

New 8-K

Figure 1

A leadership change lands on your phone.
Daily check

Figure 2

Ask your AI what is new today.
Ticker lookup

Figure 3

Look up a single ticker on request.

Example alerts. Every name, number and event shown is illustrative.

How to

How do I set up filing alerts?

  1. Step 1

    Open [secstocksignals.com](https://secstocksignals.com) and sign in.

  2. Step 2

    Pick what to watch: the companies in your portfolio or on your list.

  3. Step 3

    Open the app's connect page and copy your API key and MCP address.

  4. Step 4

    Connect your AI assistant with them, such as a personal AI like Instinct or Muse, or choose text or email for your alerts.

The apps are free during the beta, including the premium lookups. SEC Stock Signals reports and explains filings; it does not give investment advice or trade for you.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions.

What kind of alert will I get?

When a new filing hits a company on your watchlist, you get an alert explaining what changed and what it could mean for your holding. For example, an 8-K saying a chief financial officer is changing.

How do I receive alerts?

By text, by email, or in your favorite AI. A personal AI such as Instinct or Muse is the natural fit, since you can also ask it questions about your watchlist.

Does it tell me what to buy or sell?

No. It reports and explains what changed, with a link to the original. It never gives investment advice and never trades on its own.

What is included for free?

The free plan includes event-study verdicts, integrity checks, and event families. Premium adds ticker and watchlist lookups and new premium tools as they open, and premium is free during the beta.

Do I still need to read the filing?

The summary helps you decide quickly, but every alert links to the original, and that is the source worth reading for anything that matters to you.