Find
Watch newly disclosed activity as it moves through the filter, timestamped at first sight.
About Tidings · how the work is done
Method before outcome.
The record only means something if the rules were fixed before the result was known. This page is the living reference for how every Tidings screener finds, judges, seals, and measures — updated as the method evolves, with each screener's own published note kept as it was written.
The screen
Four steps, in order, every time.
Resolve
Establish the company relationship before an event can become a signal. No ticker by resemblance.
Judge
Size the event against the company, not the headline — and separate new money from restated old news.
Show
Preserve the evidence and deliver a concise research lead while it is still useful.
Evidence standards
A research lead should come with a trail.
Tidings keeps the evidence, company relationship, event size, and materiality context together so a signal can be checked instead of merely trusted.
Evidence first.
The original public record stays attached to the event that produced the flag.
No ticker by resemblance.
Direct registrants and subsidiaries require an authoritative relationship before they become signals.
Headline size is not enough.
Event value is compared with company size and tagged with the caveats needed for further research.
How trades are tracked
Fixed rules, kept score.
Entry is the timestamp.A signal enters the record the moment it fires — not when it is written up, and never retroactively.
Sealed until released.Material public-company finds stay sealed for members. The public wire shows the find exists; the name and ticker follow the release rules.
Exit by rule, not by mood.A tracked signal exits on fixed conditions — a time limit or a give-back threshold from its peak — whichever comes first. Peak move, final result, and exit reason are all recorded.
Losses stay published.The record shows every settled signal, winners and losers alike, with aggregate statistics over all signals — never winners-only.
The record is the output of these rules. If a number there cannot be traced to a rule here, that is a bug — tell us.
Product notes
Every screener publishes its own paper.
This page stays general on purpose. When a screener launches, its specific method — what it reads, how it resolves, what crosses its bar — is published as a timestamped note in the research library and kept exactly as written.
Published
How Tidings reads a federal award — the federal contract screener's product note.