Stock Insider By Person — SEC Form 4 Cross-Company Trade History

Track insider trading for any specific executive, director, or officer across all companies they have been affiliated with. Unlike ticker-based actors, this one is person-first: give it a name or CIK and get back their complete public trading history.

What it does

Fetches SEC Form 4 filings from OpenInsider for one or more named insiders. Returns every open-market purchase, sale, grant, and option exercise on record — across every company they've touched.

Examples:

• Elon Musk → trades at Tesla, SpaceX, and any other company he's affiliated with
• Tim Cook → trades at Apple + his Nike board seat
• Jensen Huang → his entire NVIDIA selling history

Input

One insider per line in the insiders field:

Format	Example	Notes
CIK number	1214156	Most reliable. Skips resolution.
Legal name	Timothy Cook	Full legal name. SEC uses legal names, not nicknames.

⚠️ Use legal names, not nicknames. EDGAR stores COOK TIMOTHY D, not Tim Cook. If resolution fails, try the full legal name or look up the CIK on SEC EDGAR and use that directly.

Name resolution

When a name is provided the actor searches SEC EDGAR for matching Form 4 filers:

• One match found → proceeds automatically
• Multiple matches → returns a disambiguation_required item listing all candidates with their CIKs and last known company. Re-run with the correct CIK.
• No match → returns a resolution_failed item. Check spelling or use the CIK.

Pricing

Pay-per-event: you are charged once per insider successfully resolved and fetched, with all of that person's trades included in that single charge. Lookups that fail to resolve or return multiple matches are still returned to you (so you can see what happened and re-run), but they are never charged.

Output fields

Field	Description
insiderCik	SEC CIK — stable identifier for this person. Use it for future runs.
insiderName	Name as filed on the Form 4
ticker	Stock traded
tradeType	purchase, sale, grant, optionExercise, etc.
valueUsd	Total USD value (negative = disposal)
quantity	Shares (negative = disposal)
price	Price per share
tradeDate	When the trade was executed
filedAt	When the Form 4 was filed with the SEC
accessionNumber	SEC accession number — use for deduplication across runs

Use with the stock-insider-trading actor

These two actors are complementary:

1. stock-insider-trading — market-wide or per-ticker feed. Discover which insiders are active right now.
2. stock-insider-by-person — person feed. Deep-dive one insider's full history. The insiderCik field from actor #1 feeds directly into actor #2 with no manual lookup.

MCP / AI agent usage

npx @apify/actors-mcp-server --tools michael_b/stock-insider-by-person