8-K Alerts
Get pinged when a material 8-K hits a public EDGAR page, not when cable recaps it.
8-K alerts ping you when a material event hits EDGAR, not when CNBC recaps it.
An 8-K is how a public company tells the market that something material happened. A CEO left. Guidance got cut. A financing closed. The filing is public on EDGAR the moment the SEC accepts it. The cable recap is a rewrite of that page, later, with a ticker graphic.
If your first notice is "stocks in motion," you already lost the useful hour. The document was sitting on a public URL while you waited for someone to package it.
What belongs in the alert
Item 2.02 is earnings. Item 5.02 is an officer change. Item 1.01 is a material agreement. You do not need every exhibit stuffed into the inbox. You need the company, the item, and a short read of what actually changed.
AyeWatch watches EDGAR pages, company IR URLs, and topics you name. It summarizes the public filing and the news that quotes it. It is not Bloomberg. It does not sell a firehose of every accession on Earth. Point it at the names in your book and the event types you refuse to miss.
How to set the watch
Write the rule in plain English. "Ping me when these tickers file an 8-K about a CEO change, a financing, or a restatement. Skip routine exhibit dumps I already have on the calendar." Add the investor-relations page if you want the company copy the same hour.
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It will not guarantee alpha. It will not hand you MNPI. An 8-K is a public announcement. Treat the ping as a prompt to open the filing, not as a trade ticket.
Routine 8-Ks still exist. Compensation exhibits, credit-agreement restatements, and "we furnished an earnings release" copies can drown a keyword email. Say what counts. AyeWatch is built to summarize the event, not to forward every PDF.
Where to go next
For the map of form types, read SEC filing monitoring. If you also care what they said on the call, pair this with earnings call alerts. Deal-related 8-Ks sit next to mergers and acquisitions monitoring.
Start on AyeWatch for investors or pick a filing setup from templates. Watch one name you already refresh by hand. If the first ping is a real 8-K, add the rest of the book.