📈 SEC EDGAR Form 4 Insider Trading & C-Suite Trades Scraper

Extract real-time legal insider stock transactions (purchases, sales, option exercises) filed on Form 4 directly from the official U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC EDGAR) database.

When a CEO, CFO, Director, or 10%+ owner buys or sells shares in their own company with their personal capital, they are required by federal law to file a Form 4 within two business days. This Actor parses the official machine-readable XML submissions to give you clean, structured financial signals.

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⚡ Key Features

• Two Powerful Operating Modes:
  • Watchlist Mode (TICKERS): Specify exact stock symbols (e.g. ["NVDA", "TSLA", "AAPL", "PLTR"]) to retrieve recent insider transactions for your portfolio.
  • Live Market Stream (LATEST_STREAM): Monitor the real-time SEC Atom feed to capture all insider filings happening across the entire US stock market as they are submitted.
• Signal Filtering for Traders & Quants:
  • Open Market Purchases Only: Isolate high-conviction bullish insider buys where executives spend their own money to accumulate stock.
  • Open Market Sales Only: Track insider liquidation, founder cash-outs, and executive disposals.
  • Minimum Dollar Value: Filter out small fractional trades, gifts, or automatic tax withholdings (e.g., minimum $50,000 threshold).
• Rich Executive Metadata:
  • Officer title (CEO, CFO, COO, General Counsel).
  • Directorship and 10% principal owner flags.
  • Direct vs. Indirect ownership (e.g., owned by Family Trust, LLC, or Spouse).
  • Total transaction value ($) and post-transaction shareholdings.
• Zero Proxy Cost & High Reliability: Uses the SEC's official REST and XML interfaces with standard User-Agent compliance. 0% proxy failure rate!

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💡 Commercial Use Cases

1. Quant & Algorithmic Trading: Build automated trading signals based on clustering of insider buying (multiple executives buying in the same week).
2. Financial Newsletters & Alerts: Send automated daily or weekly alerts to subscribers when notable tech or biotech CEOs buy millions in stock.
3. M&A and Investment Research: Monitor institutional accumulation and founder ownership changes before quarterly earnings.

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📥 Input Parameters

Field	Type	Description	Default
mode	String	TICKERS (watchlist) or LATEST_STREAM (market-wide).	TICKERS
tickers	Array	Stock ticker symbols (e.g. ["TSLA", "NVDA", "AAPL"]).	["TSLA", "NVDA", "AAPL"]
transactionFilter	String	ALL, PURCHASES_ONLY (bullish buys), SALES_ONLY.	ALL
minTransactionValue	Integer	Minimum dollar value ($) of the trade to include.	10000
maxItems	Integer	Maximum number of transaction records to output.	25
userContactEmail	String	Contact email for SEC User-Agent compliance.	data_analyst@quantresearch.io

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📤 Sample Output Data

{
  "data_type": "insider_transaction",
  "ticker": "TSLA",
  "company_name": "Tesla, Inc.",
  "company_cik": "0001318605",
  "insider_name": "Taneja Vaibhav",
  "is_officer": true,
  "officer_title": "Chief Financial Officer",
  "is_director": false,
  "is_ten_percent_owner": false,
  "security_title": "Common Stock",
  "transaction_date": "2026-09-08",
  "transaction_code": "S",
  "transaction_type": "Open Market Sale",
  "action": "SELL",
  "shares": 2605.75,
  "price_per_share": 360.13,
  "total_value": 938428.89,
  "shares_owned_after": 105022.0,
  "ownership_nature": "Direct",
  "filing_url": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1318605/000110465926106432/0001104659-26-106432-index.htm",
  "scraped_at": "2026-10-02T13:45:00.000000Z"
}

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🚀 How to Deploy & Run

Deploy to Apify

cd C:\python\apify\sec-edgar-insider-trading
apify push

Run Locally

$apify run