About Form55

Canadian investors have always had access to world-class primary source data. SEDI captures every insider trade filed under securities law. The OCL registers every active federal lobbying relationship. CanadaBuys logs every government contract awarded. Private placement announcements signal pre-public conviction before the market hears it. All of it is public. None of it is easy to use.

I spent years watching the same patterns repeat: insiders buying quietly before a major contract announcement, lobbyists filing new registrations ahead of regulatory approvals, procurement wins showing up months before analysts noticed the revenue. The data was there — scattered across multiple sources, updated on different schedules, with no way to see them together.

Form55 is my attempt to fix that. One score, four data sources, updated daily. Every number on this site is derived directly from a public filing or announcement. No estimates. No models built on top of models. Primary source only.

Four data sources feed the scoring engine on staggered schedules. Each record is matched to a TSX or TSXV issuer automatically. SEDI filings are typically reflected within 24 hours of the filing deadline — insiders have 5 calendar days after a trade to file, and Form55 ingests new filings daily at 7AM MT. Lobbying data refreshes weekly; federal and provincial contract data refreshes monthly; private placement announcements are parsed as they appear on Globe Newswire.

The scoring engine weights open-market insider conviction most heavily — a single buyer spending $2M of their own money is a far stronger signal than twenty executives each receiving stock compensation grants. Lobbying, contract activity, and private placement conviction add corroborating context. When all four align, the confluence score reflects it.

This is a one-person operation. The advantage of that is no institutional pressure to inflate scores or cherry-pick signals. The disadvantage is that edge cases exist.

• ■ Compensation grants, DRIP purchases, and auto-plan transactions are flagged as non-open-market on company pages and excluded from conviction scoring.
• ■ Known institutional shareholders filing under SEDI (e.g. strategic investors with board representation) are flagged and discounted in the signal engine.
• ■ All backtest results are disclosed publicly on the Methodology page, including underperforming tiers.
• ■ The live track record at /track-record shows every signal since January 2025 as it was scored, with the actual entry and exit price. Verifiable against any TSX data source.
• ■ No advertising, ever. Revenue comes only from subscriptions. No investor data is sold or shared with third parties.

Data errors, coverage gaps, methodology questions, or feedback on the signal engine.