SEC Insider Trades Tracker (Form 4, EDGAR)

Which executives and major shareholders are buying — or dumping — their own company's stock?

This actor tracks SEC Form 4 insider-trading filings straight from EDGAR, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's official disclosure system, and returns them as clean English structured JSON. Every time a director, officer, or 10%+ owner of a U.S.-listed company trades that company's stock, they must file a Form 4 within two business days. Those filings are public but scattered across thousands of XML documents. This actor turns them into a machine-readable feed of who traded what, how many shares, at what price, and for how many dollars — including a 10b5-1 plan flag that separates pre-scheduled trades from discretionary ones.

No API key, no login, no scraping of web pages — only the SEC's official, key-free data endpoints.

What you get (one record per filing)

{
  "source": "SEC EDGAR",
  "formType": "4",
  "accessionNumber": "0001225208-26-006816",
  "filedDate": "2026-07-29",
  "periodOfReport": "2026-07-28",
  "issuerName": "ABERCROMBIE & FITCH CO /DE/",
  "issuerTicker": "ANF",
  "insiderName": "Lipesky Scott D.",
  "insiderRoles": ["Officer"],
  "officerTitle": "EVP and COO",
  "hasOpenMarketPurchase": false,
  "hasOpenMarketSale": true,
  "isPlanned10b5_1": true,
  "totals": {
    "acquiredShares": 0,
    "disposedShares": 10000,
    "openMarketBuyValueUsd": 0,
    "openMarketSellValueUsd": 1050000,
    "netTradeValueUsd": -1050000
  },
  "transactions": [
    {
      "table": "non-derivative",
      "securityTitle": "Class A Common Stock",
      "date": "2026-07-28",
      "code": "S",
      "codeDescription": "Open-market or private sale",
      "acquiredDisposed": "D",
      "shares": 10000,
      "pricePerShare": 105,
      "valueUsd": 1050000,
      "sharesOwnedAfter": 172534,
      "ownership": "direct"
    }
  ],
  "filingUrl": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1018840/000122520826006816/0001225208-26-006816-index.htm"
}

• totals.netTradeValueUsd — open-market buys minus sells in dollars: positive = net buying, negative = net selling.
• isPlanned10b5_1 — true when the trade ran under a pre-scheduled Rule 10b5-1 plan (routine), false for discretionary trades (the interesting ones).
• insiderRoles / officerTitle — Director, Officer (with exact title), 10% owner.
• transactions[] — every reported transaction, non-derivative and derivative, with SEC transaction codes decoded to plain English.

Who it's for

• Investors & analysts who want insider buys/sells as a daily signal without paying for a market-data terminal.
• Newsletter & research writers who need a "which CEOs bought their own stock this week" feed.
• Quant / AI agent builders who want insider events as a normalized JSON stream (pairs well with any LLM pipeline).

Watching the Japanese market too? See our Japan Activist & 5% Filings Tracker (who is accumulating shares of Japanese listed companies) and Japan Corporate Events Monitor (what Japanese companies just disclosed — the 8-K equivalent).

Input

Field	Default	Notes
dateFrom	6 days ago	First EDGAR filing date to scan, YYYY-MM-DD.
dateTo	today	Last filing date. Days are scanned newest first, so a capped run returns the freshest filings.
formTypes	["4"]	Ownership forms: 4 (transactions), 4/A (amendments), 3 (initial ownership), 5 (annual).
tickers	—	Optional issuer symbol filter, e.g. ["AAPL","TSLA"].
transactionCodes	—	Optional filter, e.g. ["P"] for open-market purchases only, ["P","S"] for all open-market trades.
maxFilings	25	Cap for a quick, cheap sample (0 = no limit; a busy day has 500–2,000 Form 4s).
delayMs	150	Politeness delay between SEC requests (SEC allows up to 10 req/s; don't go below 120).
secUserAgent	actor default	SEC asks automated clients to identify themselves; you can put "Your Name your@email.com" here.

All fields are optional — a run with no input returns the latest ~25 insider filings.

Typical uses

• Daily digest: run once a day with transactionCodes: ["P"] to catch every open-market insider buy (the classic bullish signal).
• Watchlist: set tickers to your portfolio and get every insider move in those names.
• Research: pull a full month with maxFilings: 0 and aggregate net insider flows by sector.

Notes & limitations

• Data source: SEC EDGAR daily form indexes and ownership XML documents — official, public-domain U.S. government data. The actor respects the SEC fair-access policy (identifying User-Agent, well under 10 requests/second).
• Filings appear in the daily index within minutes of acceptance; EDGAR accepts filings 6:00–22:00 US Eastern on business days. Weekends and market holidays have no index (the actor skips them automatically).
• totals counts share amounts from non-derivative (common stock) transactions; dollar totals cover open-market trades (codes P and S) where a price is reported. Grants, option exercises, gifts, etc. are all present in transactions[] with their SEC codes decoded.
• Form 3 filings report initial ownership and contain no transactions; they come through with an empty transactions array.

Run locally

npm install
node src/main.js

Local input can be placed in storage/key_value_stores/default/INPUT.json.