SEC Insider Trading & 8-K Alerts (EDGAR Form 4 Monitor)

Know when CEOs, CFOs, directors and 10% owners buy or sell their own company's stock, and when companies file 8-K material events like M&A, earnings, executive departures or bankruptcy. Data comes straight from the official SEC EDGAR system, cleaned into one simple table.

Click "Start" with the default input and you get results in under a minute. No API key, no setup.

Who uses this

• Traders & investors: follow insider buying on your watchlist; large open-market buys are a closely watched signal.
• Fintech apps & newsletters: feed an insider-trading section or daily email with fresh, structured data.
• Analysts & researchers: build datasets of insider activity and corporate events for any ticker.
• IR, compliance & M&A teams: get notified the moment a competitor or target files an 8-K.

Why this Actor

• ✅ One row per transaction: insider name, role, buy/sell, shares, price and total USD value, already parsed.
• ✅ Filter out the noise: set a minimum trade value such as $100,000 and only see meaningful moves.
• ✅ Watchlist or entire market: give tickers, or leave empty to get the latest filings across all US companies.
• ✅ Plain-English 8-K items: "5.02 Departure of directors or officers" instead of raw codes.
• ✅ You never pay for errors: failed lookups go to a separate free log, not your bill.
• ✅ Official, legal data: SEC EDGAR public APIs, rate-limited per SEC fair-access policy.

How to use

1. Enter tickers (e.g. AAPL, NVDA, TSLA) or leave the list empty for all companies.
2. Pick filing types: Form 4 (insider trades), 8-K (material events) or both.
3. Optional: set a minimum transaction value and a lookback window.
4. Click Start. Export as CSV, Excel, JSON, or send to Google Sheets.

Get alerts automatically

Use Apify Schedules to run every hour or every morning, and add an integration (Slack, email, Google Sheets, Zapier, Make, webhook) to get new insider trades delivered where you work.

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 examples

Watchlist, big insider trades only

{ "tickers": ["AAPL", "MSFT", "NVDA", "TSLA"], "formTypes": ["4"], "lookbackDays": 7, "minTransactionValue": 100000 }

Whole market: every insider trade above $1M

{ "tickers": [], "formTypes": ["4"], "maxLatestFilings": 100, "minTransactionValue": 1000000 }

8-K event monitor for competitors

{ "tickers": ["META", "AMZN", "GOOGL"], "formTypes": ["8-K"], "lookbackDays": 3 }

Pricing

You pay only per delivered result row (one insider transaction or one 8-K filing). Error and "not found" rows are never charged. Set a maximum cost per run in the run options and the Actor stops cleanly at your limit.

FAQ

Is this legal? Yes. SEC EDGAR filings are public-domain US government data. This Actor uses SEC's official endpoints and respects their rate limits.

How fresh is the data? Filings appear on EDGAR within minutes of submission. Schedule hourly runs for near-real-time alerts.

What do transaction codes mean? P = open-market purchase, S = open-market sale, A = grant/award, M = option exercise, F = shares withheld for tax. The transactionType field spells this out for you.

Do I need an SEC account or API key? No.

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.

Feedback

Missing a field or a filing type (13D, 13G, 10-K)? Open an issue in the Issues tab. Requests are usually added within days.