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Filtering filings by category and materiality

Filing volume is high; signal density is low without filters. How to narrow the feed to what actually matters for your workflow.

Why filter

NSE and BSE between them publish 400–800 filings per day. Most are procedural — disclosures about trading windows, statement of holdings, voting results. The signal-to-noise ratio is poor without filtering.

A well-configured filter set turns the feed from "everything everyone filed today" into "the 15 things I actually want to know".

The materiality filter (most-used)

The single most useful control. Three settings:

  • Material only — earnings, board meetings, fundraising, M&A, buybacks, regulatory orders, large order wins. Highest signal density, lowest volume.
  • Material + context (default) — material filings plus contextually meaningful ones (significant disclosures, scheme of arrangement details, debt actions). Recommended for most users.
  • All filings — every announcement including procedural ones. Useful for analysts who want a complete audit trail; overwhelming for casual reading.

Default for most: material + context. Heavy users sometimes toggle between "material only" (for the morning pre-market scan) and "all" (for end-of-day research deep-dives).

The category filter

Multi-select dropdown with 15 categories:

  • Financial Results
  • Board Meeting
  • Dividend
  • Buyback
  • Stock Split / Bonus
  • Acquisitions / Disposals
  • Issue of Shares
  • Schemes of Arrangement
  • Open Offer
  • Updates / Clarifications
  • General Updates
  • Investor Presentations
  • Conference Call Transcripts
  • Insider Trading
  • Other

Common useful combinations:

  • Earnings cycle research — Financial Results + Board Meeting + Conference Call Transcripts
  • M&A watch — Acquisitions/Disposals + Open Offer + Schemes of Arrangement
  • Capital action focus — Dividend + Buyback + Stock Split/Bonus + Issue of Shares

The watchlist filter

A single toggle at the top of the feed: "show only watchlisted stocks". When on, the feed restricts to filings for stocks in any of your watchlists. Most users keep this off to catch news from non-watchlisted names, then re-enable it when actively reading.

Date range

For real-time monitoring: leave the date range open or set to "last 24 hours". For historical research on a specific event window: set a custom range around the event date.

Saving filter presets

You can't currently save filter presets — but the URL encodes the filter state, so bookmarking specific filter combinations as browser bookmarks works as a stopgap. A "earnings cycle" bookmark and a "M&A watch" bookmark are usually enough.

Filter combinations and notification settings

The filing alerts that fire to your in-app notifications, push, and (Pro) WhatsApp use a separate materiality filter set in Settings → Notifications. The page-level filter only affects what you see when browsing the feed.

This split is deliberate: you might browse with "all filings" but receive alerts only for "material" — different attention budgets for different surfaces.

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