About the disclosures
An alert is a starting point. The original filing shows what was reported, who owns the shares and which dates are known.
Where do the disclosures come from?
PoliticianTrades collects publicly available parliamentary financial-interest filings and extracts share transactions from them. The original filing is linked to each available record so you can check what was reported. The service currently focuses on Australian politicians’ ASX shares in the filings we monitor.
Does an alert mean a politician traded today?
No. An alert means a disclosure has been published and reviewed for delivery. Transactions may be reported after they happen. Keep the reported transaction date separate from the disclosure date, and consult the filing when a date is missing or unclear. We do not provide a live feed of transactions as they execute.
What can I conclude from a disclosed transaction?
A filing records a declared financial interest or change. It does not establish why someone traded, whether they had confidential information, or whether the transaction was profitable. The service does not recommend following a politician’s trades.
What are the limitations of these records?
Filings can omit transaction prices, quantities or precise dates. A declared holding does not establish when shares were bought. Ownership may belong to a spouse, dependent or another entity rather than the politician personally. We keep that context with the record where it is reported, and do not treat missing information as proof that an event did not happen.
How do you turn a filing into an alert?
We collect public register updates, extract company names and share transactions, and review the records before publishing an alert. Email includes the reviewed transactions and original source links. A filing with several transactions may produce one notification. Historical imports do not necessarily represent newly disclosed trades.
What does my subscription save me doing?
You do not need to keep revisiting the register to check for covered share-trade disclosures. Alerts arrive by email. The subscription also includes the database, politician and company pages, existing research tools and CSV exports when you want to examine a record further.