SEC Insider Trading MCP — Form 4 Filings & Insider Transactions

The SEC Form 4 database tracks all insider stock purchases, sales, and other transactions by officers, directors, and 10%+ shareholders at public companies. This actor queries the SEC EDGAR full-text search API to surface Form 4 filings for any US-listed ticker and returns structured transaction records ready for downstream analysis or MCP integration.

Features

• Form 4 insider filings by ticker symbol
• Buy/sell transaction type filtering (P = purchase, S = sale)
• Custom date range search via start_date
• Filer name, issuer name, transaction date, and filing date extraction
• Shares, price per share, and total transaction value fields
• 15-record fallback dataset covering major insider transactions (Apple, Meta, Amazon, Microsoft, Alphabet, Tesla, Salesforce, JPMorgan, Nvidia, Oracle, Netflix, Palo Alto Networks, Broadcom)

Input

{
  "ticker": "AAPL",
  "transaction_type": "S",
  "start_date": "2024-01-01",
  "limit": 20
}

Field	Type	Default	Description
ticker	string	"AAPL"	Stock ticker symbol (e.g. AAPL, NVDA, META)
transaction_type	string	""	Filter by type: "P" = purchase, "S" = sale, "" = all
start_date	string	"2024-01-01"	Earliest transaction date in YYYY-MM-DD format
limit	integer	20	Maximum number of records to return

Output

Each record in the dataset contains the following 9 fields:

Field	Type	Description
filer_name	string	Name of the insider (officer, director, or 10%+ shareholder)
issuer_name	string	Name of the public company issuing the securities
ticker	string	Stock ticker symbol
transaction_date	string	Date the transaction occurred (YYYY-MM-DD)
transaction_type	string	"P" for purchase, "S" for sale
shares	integer	Number of shares transacted
price_per_share	float	Per-share price at time of transaction
total_value	float	Total dollar value of the transaction
filing_date	string	Date the Form 4 was filed with the SEC (YYYY-MM-DD)

Use Cases

• Insider trading signals — Identify unusual buying or selling activity ahead of earnings or corporate events
• Governance research — Track executive and board member trading patterns across a portfolio
• Executive compensation tracking — Monitor equity liquidation schedules and vesting windows
• Activist investor monitoring — Detect large accumulation or distribution events by major shareholders

Notes

Uses the SEC EDGAR public full-text search API (efts.sec.gov) with the required User-Agent header "SECC-MCP-Actor contact@secc.ai". No API key or authentication is required. The SEC asks that automated clients identify themselves via the User-Agent header and limit request rates to avoid overloading public infrastructure.

When the live API returns no results (e.g., network unavailability or no filings matching the filter), the actor automatically falls back to a curated 15-record sample dataset covering well-known insider transactions from major public companies.