Releasing VIGIL Flags. Filter Companies by One or More Signals Instead of Going Company by Company.
Published: September 14, 2026
Releasing VIGIL Flags. Now you can filter companies based on one or more signals rather than going across multiple tabs or one company at a time. Filter conditions are my judgment, covering credit ratings, promoter buying and selling, outsiders crossing 5%, pledges and lenders invoking them, encumbrance, insolvency and the exchange surveillance flags, the ones I use most often to run my own cuts.
Two options
- any: companies meeting any of the selected flags (acts like an OR condition)
- all: companies meeting all of the selected flags (acts like an AND condition)
More flags will be added as I build them for my own cuts.
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A few nuances
One thing to know before you read the numbers, because the twelve conditions are not all the same kind of thing.
Eight of them are events with a date on them, so a promoter selling down or a rating moving belongs to the week it was filed, and the period filter does what you would expect. The other four are the position a company is in right now, so over half the company pledged, most of the promoter holding tied up, the severe exchange actions and insolvency carry no date of their own and they read the same whatever period you pick.
That shows up when you narrow the universe. Over the last three months across the Nifty 750 there are 15 companies where an outsider crossed five per cent and 12 where a promoter sold that much, and just one in insolvency, because almost every company sitting in insolvency is outside that index. Widen it to everything and there are 37.
Two of these look like duplicates and they come from different filings, so it is worth knowing which is which.
Promoter sold down reads the insider trading disclosures, which are company people declaring their own trades, and it triggers on a cut of one percentage point or more in a single market sale. Promoter sold five per cent or more reads the takeover filings instead, which anyone crossing five per cent has to make, and it is a much blunter cut of the same direction.
A company can show one and not the other, so I kept them apart rather than merging them. Steady trimming shows up in the first and large exits in the second.
The takeover filings also carry something the insider ones never will, which is an outsider building a stake, because those disclosures cover anybody crossing the threshold rather than only the people inside the company. That is the condition with no insider equivalent at all.
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