SEC EDGAR Insider Trading & 8-K Alert Monitor

Monitor SEC EDGAR for Form 4 insider trades (buy/sell transactions by executives, directors, and large shareholders) and Form 8-K material events (M&A, earnings, CFO departures, bankruptcy, and more).

• ✅ Watch specific tickers — AAPL, TSLA, MSFT, etc.
• ✅ Firehose mode — latest filings across all public US companies
• ✅ Minimum value filter — skip noise, surface only significant insider moves
• ✅ Zero auth / no proxies needed — uses the official SEC EDGAR JSON & Atom APIs
• ✅ SEC fair-access compliant — rate-limited, identifies your contact as required by SEC policy

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What it outputs

Form 4 rows (one row per transaction)

Field	Example
ticker	AAPL
issuerName	Apple Inc.
insiderName	COOK TIMOTHY D
insiderRole	Chief Executive Officer / Director
transactionDate	2026-06-10
transactionType	Open market sale
shares	75000
pricePerShare	205.32
totalValue	15399000
acquiredOrDisposed	Disposed
sharesOwnedAfterTransaction	3185000
ownershipType	Direct
isDerivative	false
filingDate	2026-06-20
documentUrl	(direct link to the SEC filing XML)
filingIndexUrl	(SEC filing index page)

8-K rows (one row per filing)

Field	Example
companyName	Apple Inc.
filingDate	2026-06-18
itemsSummary	2.02 (Results of operations...); 5.02 (Departure/election of directors...)
items	[{ code: "2.02", label: "..." }, ...]
documentUrl	(direct link to the 8-K .htm file)
filingIndexUrl	(SEC filing index page)

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Input options

Field	Type	Default	Description
userAgentContact	string	required	Your name/company + email, e.g. "MyApp contact@example.com". Sent as the User-Agent header — required by SEC fair access policy.
tickers	string[]	[]	Tickers to monitor. Leave empty for firehose mode (all companies).
formTypes	"4" / "8-K"	["4","8-K"]	Which filing types to watch.
lookbackDays	integer	7	How many days back to look. Only applies in ticker mode. Min 1, max 90.
minTransactionValue	integer	0	Skip Form 4 transactions below this USD value. Set to e.g. 100000 to surface significant moves only.
maxItemsPerCompany	integer	50	Cap on filings per ticker.
maxLatestFilings	integer	50	Cap on filings in firehose mode (max 100).

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Quickstart

Ticker mode — watch a handful of companies

{
  "tickers": ["AAPL", "MSFT", "NVDA", "TSLA"],
  "formTypes": ["4"],
  "lookbackDays": 7,
  "minTransactionValue": 100000,
  "userAgentContact": "YourName contact@yourdomain.com"
}

Firehose mode — every Form 4 filing across all of US public markets

{
  "tickers": [],
  "formTypes": ["4"],
  "maxLatestFilings": 100,
  "minTransactionValue": 1000000,
  "userAgentContact": "YourName contact@yourdomain.com"
}

8-K material event monitor for a watchlist

{
  "tickers": ["META", "AMZN", "GOOGL"],
  "formTypes": ["8-K"],
  "lookbackDays": 3,
  "userAgentContact": "YourName contact@yourdomain.com"
}

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Scheduling tips

Run this on a daily or hourly schedule via Apify's built-in scheduler to get fresh insider trading signals as soon as they hit EDGAR. Combine with a webhook to push results to Slack, Google Sheets, or your own database.

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Data source & legal

All data is sourced from SEC EDGAR, the official US government repository of public company filings. This data is in the public domain. This actor does not scrape any third-party paid data source and complies fully with SEC's fair access policy.

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Limitations

• Form 4 parsing covers standard non-derivative and derivative transactions. Unusual formats (paper filings scanned as PDFs, legacy HTML submissions) fall back to metadata-only output rows with ok: false and a direct link so you can check manually.
• 8-K item detection is best-effort text extraction. It correctly identifies Item codes in the vast majority of modern EDGAR HTML filings. Non-standard or inline XBRL filings may produce empty items arrays; the documentUrl link is always included.
• Firehose mode depends on SEC's getcurrent Atom feed, which is updated in near-real-time but not officially guaranteed to list every filing within any specific SLA.