Insider Trading Tracker — Corporate Insider Buys & Sells

What does Insider Trading Tracker do?

The insider trading tracker automatically fetches and parses Form 4 SEC filings — the mandatory disclosure U.S. executives and directors must file within two business days of trading their own company's stock. For each filing it extracts every individual transaction: CEO, CFO, Director, and VP stock buys and sells, option exercises, and awards. The result is one clean structured row per trade, including ticker, insider name, role tier, transaction code, shares, price per share, and total USD value. No API key required.

This actor decodes all nine SEC transaction codes, enriches trades with current price via Yahoo Finance (showing % gain/loss since the transaction), detects cluster buy patterns, and flags unusual transaction sizes — turning raw executive stock transactions data into an actionable signal feed.

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Why use Insider Trading Tracker?

1. Quantitative alpha generation — Open-market insider purchases greater than $1M have historically outperformed the S&P 500 by ~4% over the following 12 months. This insider trading tracker surfaces those signals the moment Form 4 filings hit EDGAR.
2. Cluster signal detection — When multiple C-suite insiders buy the same ticker within 30 days, the conviction signal strengthens significantly. The actor's pattern_analysis field flags this automatically.
3. Earnings preparation — Insider trades in the 30 days preceding an earnings announcement carry strong informational content about expected results.
4. Short-side risk management — Large CEO or CFO open-market sales often precede negative news or earnings misses. Screen your short book against recent insider disposals.
5. Compliance and portfolio monitoring — Maintain a daily snapshot of all insider activity across your covered universe to meet internal compliance requirements or investor reporting standards.

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How to use Insider Trading Tracker

1. Open the Actor on Apify and click Try for free.
2. Run with defaults to fetch the latest 50 Form 4 SEC filings and see all transaction types.
3. (Optional) Set onlyBuys: true and minValueUsd: 100000 to filter to meaningful open-market purchases only.
4. (Optional) Add tickers: ["AAPL", "NVDA"] to watch specific companies.
5. Click Start — results appear in the dataset within seconds.
6. Export as JSON/CSV or query via the Apify API. Schedule daily runs and add Telegram alerts for real-time monitoring.

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Input

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
countFromFeed	integer	50	Number of recent Form 4 filings to ingest and parse.
tickers	array	[]	Filter to specific issuer tickers. Empty = all.
onlyBuys	boolean	false	Drop disposals — keep only acquisitions and open-market purchases.
minValueUsd	integer	0	Drop transactions below this USD value.
alertMinValueUsd	integer	0	Send Telegram alert when a returned trade exceeds this value. 0 = disabled.
contactEmail	string	research@example.com	Required per SEC User-Agent policy.
telegramBotToken	string	—	Telegram bot token for trade alerts.
telegramChatId	string	—	Telegram chat ID for alerts.

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Output

Each row represents one insider transaction from a Form 4 filing:

[
  {
    "issuer_ticker": "NVDA",
    "issuer_name": "NVIDIA Corporation",
    "insider_name": "Jensen Huang",
    "insider_tier": "C-suite",
    "officer_title": "President and Chief Executive Officer",
    "is_director": true,
    "is_officer": true,
    "txn_date": "2026-06-05",
    "txn_code": "P",
    "txn_meaning": "Open-market purchase",
    "acquired_or_disposed": "A",
    "shares": 10000,
    "price_usd": 120.50,
    "value_usd": 1205000.00,
    "post_txn_shares": 85000000,
    "current_price": 135.20,
    "price_change_since_pct": 12.2,
    "sector": "Technology",
    "filing_url": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1045810/..."
  },
  {
    "issuer_ticker": "AVR",
    "issuer_name": "Anteris Technologies Global Corp.",
    "insider_name": "McDonnell Matthew",
    "insider_tier": "C-suite",
    "officer_title": "Chief Financial Officer",
    "txn_code": "P",
    "txn_meaning": "Open-market purchase",
    "shares": 5000,
    "price_usd": 2.45,
    "value_usd": 12250.00,
    "filing_url": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/..."
  }
]

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Data fields

Field	Example	Description
issuer_ticker	NVDA	Stock ticker of the company
issuer_name	NVIDIA Corporation	Full company name
insider_name	Jensen Huang	Reporting person's name
insider_tier	C-suite	Tier: C-suite / Board / VP / Other
officer_title	CEO	Exact role as declared in Form 4
txn_date	2026-06-05	Date of the transaction
txn_code	P	SEC transaction code (see table below)
txn_meaning	Open-market purchase	Human-readable decode
acquired_or_disposed	A	A = acquired, D = disposed
shares	10,000	Number of shares
price_usd	120.50	Price per share at transaction
value_usd	1,205,000.00	Total trade value (shares × price)
post_txn_shares	85,000,000	Total holdings after transaction
current_price	135.20	Current price via Yahoo Finance
price_change_since_pct	12.2	% move since transaction date
sector	Technology	GICS sector
pattern_analysis	{...}	Cluster buy, unusual size, consecutive signal flags

SEC transaction codes decoded

Code	Meaning
P	Open-market purchase — strongest bullish signal
S	Open-market sale
A	Grant / award (compensation — not a discretionary signal)
M	Option exercise to common stock
F	Tax-withholding payment (forced sale)
G	Gift
D	Disposition back to issuer
C	Conversion of derivative security
X	Exercise of in-the-money derivative

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Cost estimation

Pay-Per-Event pricing: $0.002 per insider transaction row returned

Run type	Transactions	Estimated cost
50 filings, all transaction types (~3 per filing)	~150	$0.30
Filtered to $1M+ open-market buys	5–20	$0.01–$0.04
Single ticker watch	1–5	$0.002–$0.01
Daily universe scan (200 filings)	~600	$1.20

Compare: Insider Insights and Verafin charge $300+/month for equivalent Form 4 parsed data.

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FAQ

What is Form 4 and why does it matter? Form 4 SEC filings are mandatory disclosures that corporate insiders — directors, officers, and 10%+ shareholders — must submit within two business days of trading their company's stock. Because insiders possess material non-public information, their executive stock transactions are widely monitored as a predictive signal by quant funds and fundamental investors alike.

How do I filter to only high-conviction signals? Set onlyBuys: true (removes compensation awards, gifts, and tax payments) and minValueUsd: 100000 to focus on discretionary open-market purchases above $100K. These represent genuine personal conviction with the insider's own capital at risk.

How does this differ from free SEC EDGAR search? The SEC provides raw XML Form 4 filings, but you must download each filing, parse the ownership XML, decode transaction codes, and join to ticker data manually. This insider trading tracker automates the entire pipeline and delivers enriched, analysis-ready rows — including cluster pattern detection and live price comparison — in seconds.

Disclaimer: Insider transaction data is sourced from SEC EDGAR public Form 4 filings. This actor is not affiliated with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Past patterns in insider trading data do not guarantee future returns. Nothing here constitutes investment advice.

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