Boardroom Buys: SEC insider trading tracker & cluster buy alerts

Know when the people who run a company buy its stock with their own money. Boardroom Buys turns SEC EDGAR Form 4 filings into one clean JSON row per insider trade (who, what, how many shares, at what price) for your watchlist or the whole market. It flags a cluster buy when 2+ different insiders at the same company buy on the open market within days, a signal some investors watch closely.

Why Boardroom Buys

• Pay per trade, not per month. Sites like WhaleWisdom, Quiver Quantitative and sec-api.io charge $19–$239/month to package this public SEC data. Here it's $0.004 per trade, with no subscription.
• Signal, not noise. By default you get only open-market buys and sells (codes P/S). Option exercises, stock grants, gifts and trades below your minimum dollar value are dropped.
• Ready for code and AI agents. Form 4s arrive as one XML file per filing; you get a stable JSON schema instead, callable from any MCP client through Apify's MCP server.

Example row (trimmed):

{ "issuer": { "name": "NextTrip, Inc.", "ticker": "NTRP" }, "owner": { "name": "Kaplan Andrew Jay", "isDirector": true },
  "transactionDate": "2026-09-17", "transactionCode": "P", "shares": 52910, "pricePerShare": 1.89,
  "totalValueUsd": 99999.9, "clusterBuy": false }

What it does

1. Watchlist mode — give it a list of tickers (e.g. AAPL, TSLA) and it pulls every Form 4 filed by those companies' insiders in your lookback window.
2. Whole-market mode — leave tickers empty (or turn on "Track whole market") to get the newest Form 4 filings across every US-listed issuer, for a general insider-buying feed.
3. Cluster-buy detection — flags transactions where 2+ different insiders at the same company bought on the open market within a configurable window (default 7 days).
4. Noise filtering — by default keeps only open-market buys/sells (transaction codes P/S), not option exercises, stock grants or gifts, and drops trades below a minimum dollar value.

Output (one row per transaction)

{
  "issuer": { "cik": "0000788611", "name": "NextTrip, Inc.", "ticker": "NTRP" },
  "owner": { "cik": "0002078356", "name": "Kaplan Andrew Jay", "isDirector": true, "isOfficer": false, "isTenPercentOwner": false },
  "securityType": "non-derivative",
  "transactionDate": "2026-09-17",
  "transactionCode": "P",
  "acquiredDisposedCode": "A",
  "shares": 52910,
  "pricePerShare": 1.89,
  "totalValueUsd": 99999.9,
  "sharesOwnedAfter": 104492,
  "clusterBuy": false,
  "clusterInsiderCount": 1,
  "filingUrl": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/788611/..."
}

Data source & legality

100% official, public SEC EDGAR data via SEC's own developer-sanctioned endpoints (data.sec.gov, www.sec.gov), used per SEC's fair-access policy: a descriptive User-Agent and a moderate request rate — no login, no CAPTCHA, no anti-bot bypass. See https://www.sec.gov/os/webmaster-faq#developers.

Limitations

• Form 4 must be filed within 2 business days of the trade, so this is near-real-time, not tick-by-tick.
• Joint filings signed by more than one reporting owner attribute every transaction to the first listed owner (SEC's schema doesn't split them out).
• Whole-market mode reflects the pace of new filings on EDGAR, not a fixed daily count.

Pricing

Pay-per-event: one result row = one insider-transaction charge; a flagged cluster buy adds one cluster-signal charge. No subscription, no minimum spend.