SEC Form 4 Insider Trading Tracker

Parses SEC Form 4 filings to expose actual insider transactions: CEO/CFO/Director open-market buys & sells, options exercises, awards. Returns ticker, insider name, role, transaction code, shares, price, USD value. Strong quant signal source.

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⚡ Run in 30 seconds

Click Start with default settings — fetches the latest SEC Form 4 filings and returns each insider transaction with the company ticker, insider name, role (CEO/CFO/Director), transaction type, number of shares, price per share, and total USD value. No API key needed.

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Input Parameters

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
countFromFeed	integer	50	How many of the most recent Form 4 filings to ingest and parse.
tickers	array	[]	Only include trades for these issuer tickers. Empty = all.
onlyBuys	boolean	false	If true, drop dispositions (sales, gifts, tax payments).
minValueUsd	integer	0	Drop transactions below this USD value. 0 = no filter.
alertMinValueUsd	integer	0	Telegram alert when any returned trade ≥ this USD value. 0 = disabled.
contactEmail	string	research@example.com	SEC requires an identifying User-Agent with a contact email.
telegramBotToken	string	—	Telegram bot token.
telegramChatId	string	``	Telegram chat ID to send alerts to (get it from @userinfobot)

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Why this exists

When a CEO buys $5M of their own stock on the open market, the stock tends to outperform over the next 12 months. This pattern — and dozens of others — drive a whole class of quant strategies.

The data is free at SEC EDGAR — but parsing it requires:

1. Watching the Form 4 atom feed
2. For each filing, fetching and parsing the underlying ownership XML
3. Decoding transaction codes (P/S/A/M/F/G/D/C/X)

This actor automates the whole pipeline and returns one clean row per transaction.

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What you get per row

Field	Example	Notes
issuer_ticker	AVR
issuer_name	Anteris Technologies Global Corp.
insider_name	McDonnell Matthew
is_director	false
is_officer	true
officer_title	Chief Financial Officer
is_ten_percent_owner	false
txn_date	2026-06-05	transaction date
txn_code	P	SEC transaction code
txn_meaning	Open-market purchase	decoded
acquired_or_disposed	A	A = acquired, D = disposed
shares	5,000
price_usd	2.45
value_usd	12,250.00	shares × price
post_txn_shares	45,200	total holdings after txn
filing_url	https://www.sec.gov/Archives/...

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SEC Transaction Codes (decoded)

Code	Meaning
P	Open-market purchase ← strong bullish signal
S	Open-market sale
A	Grant / award (compensation)
M	Option exercise → common stock
F	Tax-withholding payment
G	Gift
D	Disposition to issuer
C	Conversion of derivative
X	Exercise of in-the-money derivative

The onlyBuys filter keeps just A (acquisitions) — useful for filtering noise.

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Use cases

1. Quant alpha — Open-market insider buys > $1M historically outperform the S&P by ~4% over 12 months
2. Cluster signal — Multiple insiders buying same ticker within 30d = strong conviction
3. Avoid distribution — Large CEO/CFO sells often precede negative news
4. Earnings prep — Insider trades in the 30 days before earnings are highly informative
5. Compliance — Daily snapshot of insider activity for your portfolio companies

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Quick start

Default — latest 50 Form 4 filings, all transactions

{}

Only meaningful open-market buys

{
  "countFromFeed": 100,
  "onlyBuys": true,
  "minValueUsd": 100000
}

Track specific tickers

{
  "tickers": ["AAPL", "NVDA", "TSLA", "MSFT"],
  "minValueUsd": 50000
}

Alert on $1M+ open-market insider buys

{
  "countFromFeed": 100,
  "onlyBuys": true,
  "alertMinValueUsd": 1000000,
  "telegramBotToken": "YOUR_BOT_TOKEN",
  "telegramChatId": "YOUR_CHAT_ID"
}

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Pricing

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

Run	Transactions	Cost
50 filings × ~3 txn each	~150	$0.30
Filtered to $1M+ buys	5–20	$0.01–0.04
Single ticker watch	1–5	$0.002–0.01

vs Insider Insights / Verafin at $300+/mo, with the same raw data.

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Compliance

The SEC's Fair Use Policy requires a descriptive User-Agent with a contact email. Pass contactEmail in input to set yours; the default works for testing.

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Data source

SEC EDGAR Form 4 Atom Feed + per-filing ownership XML (parsed automatically).

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Related actors (same author)

• SEC EDGAR Filing Tracker — Other form types (10-K, 8-K, 13F-HR)
• Stock Earnings Calendar Tracker
• Smart Money Wallet Tracker — On-chain equivalent for crypto

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