get_policy_events
Get Policy Events
What it does
List mirrored executive orders (policy events) from the Federal Register feed. Filter by signing-date range, affected sector, or free-text title query. Each event includes its Federal Register document number (externalId), title, signing date (eventDate), normalized affected sectors, full-text URL, and flaggedTradeCount — the number of official trades that occurred in an affected sector near the signing date.
IMPORTANT: matches are sector-level co-occurrence — the official traded a stock in a sector the executive order affects, within a window of its signing date. Sector matches are broad and many trades will coincide with policy activity by chance; a match is a starting point for research, not evidence of foreknowledge.
The matchBasis field describes match strength only ('sector' = broad sector match), never culpability, and matchCount shows how many EOs matched in the window (a noise indicator).
Ask your AI
With the Signal8 MCP server connected, your assistant calls this tool when a question needs it. For example:
Using Signal8, list mirrored executive orders.
Parameters
| Name | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
fromoptional | string | Earliest signing date inclusive (YYYY-MM-DD) |
tooptional | string | Latest signing date inclusive (YYYY-MM-DD) |
sectoroptional | string | Filter by canonical affected sector (one of the 11 canonical sector strings, e.g. "Healthcare", "Financial Services", "Energy") |
qoptional | string | Free-text search over event titles |
limitoptional | number | Maximum results to return (default: 25, max: 100) |
offsetoptional | number | Pagination offset (default: 0) |
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