Insider Trading Monitor — SEC Form 4 Tracker

Track insider buying and selling at any public company. Get structured data on every trade made by CEOs, CFOs, directors, and 10%+ shareholders — directly from SEC EDGAR Form 4 filings.

No API key required. Enter ticker symbols, get insider trades as clean JSON in seconds.

Why insider trading data matters

When a CEO buys $5 million of their own company's stock, that's a signal. When multiple executives sell before an earnings report, that's a different signal. Institutional investors, retail traders, and journalists all monitor insider transactions to inform their decisions.

This actor automates that monitoring and gives you structured, filterable data — not raw SEC filings you have to read manually.

What you get

For every insider transaction:

Field	Description
ticker	Stock ticker (AAPL, TSLA, etc.)
companyName	Full company name
insiderName	Name of the insider (formatted)
insiderTitle	Role — CEO, CFO, Director, 10%+ Owner
transactionDate	When the trade happened
transactionType	Purchase, Sale, Option Exercise, Grant, Gift, etc.
shares	Number of shares traded
pricePerShare	Price per share
totalValue	Total dollar value of the transaction
sharesOwnedAfter	Insider's position after the trade
isDerivative	Whether this involves options/warrants
filingDate	When the Form 4 was filed with the SEC

Example output

{
    "ticker": "AAPL",
    "companyName": "Apple Inc",
    "insiderName": "Timothy D. Cook",
    "insiderTitle": "Chief Executive Officer, Director",
    "transactionDate": "2025-10-01",
    "transactionCode": "S",
    "transactionType": "Sale",
    "acquiredOrDisposed": "Disposed",
    "shares": 250000,
    "pricePerShare": 232.50,
    "totalValue": 58125000.00,
    "sharesOwnedAfter": 3280557,
    "isDerivative": false,
    "filingDate": "2025-10-03",
    "filingUrl": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/...",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-03-26T12:00:00"
}

Use cases

Retail investors: See what company insiders are doing with their own money before you invest yours. Filter for purchases only to find executives putting skin in the game.

Quantitative traders: Build insider-trading signals into your models. Backtest strategies based on insider buying clusters, large dispositions, or option exercises.

Financial journalists: Monitor specific companies for unusual insider activity. Set up scheduled runs to get daily alerts on your watchlist.

Compliance teams: Track insider trading across a portfolio of companies for regulatory monitoring and reporting.

App developers: Power an insider trading feed in your stock app or investment platform with clean, structured API data.

Filters

Parameter	Default	Description
tickers	AAPL	List of stock tickers to monitor
maxFilings	20	Max Form 4 filings per company
daysBack	90	Only show trades from the last N days
transactionFilter	all	Filter: all, purchases, or sales
minTransactionValue	0	Only show trades above this dollar value

Common queries

Show me only insider purchases over $1M in the last 30 days:

• tickers: your watchlist
• daysBack: 30
• transactionFilter: purchases
• minTransactionValue: 1000000

Get all insider activity for FAANG stocks:

• tickers: AAPL, AMZN, GOOG, META, NFLX
• daysBack: 90
• transactionFilter: all

How it works

1. Resolves ticker symbols to SEC CIK numbers
2. Fetches Form 4 filing metadata from the SEC EDGAR submissions API
3. Downloads and parses each Form 4 XML document
4. Extracts both non-derivative (stock) and derivative (options) transactions
5. Formats insider names and calculates total transaction values
6. Returns clean, structured JSON to the Apify dataset

Scheduling

Set this actor to run daily or weekly via Apify Schedules to automatically monitor your watchlist. Combine with Apify webhooks or integrations (Slack, email, Google Sheets) to get alerts when large insider trades happen.

Data source

All data comes from SEC EDGAR Form 4 filings, which are public records that insiders of public companies are legally required to file within two business days of a transaction.

Legal

This actor extracts publicly available data from SEC EDGAR. The SEC provides free, unrestricted access to all filings. Users are responsible for ensuring their use complies with applicable laws and regulations. This tool does not provide investment advice.