SEC Insider Trades (Form 4): Buys & Sells by Ticker

Turn SEC Form 4 filings into one clean row per insider transaction:

• who traded (name, CEO/CFO title, director, 10% owner),
• what they did (open-market buy, sale, award, option exercise, tax withholding, gift),
• shares, price, dollar value and holdings after,
• whether the trade was under a Rule 10b5-1 plan,
• a link to the original EDGAR filing.

Each run also returns a per-company summary with buy count, sell count and net dollar value.

Built for investors, newsletter writers, quant and fintech apps, IR teams, journalists and AI agents that track insider buying and selling across a watchlist.

What one row looks like

{"ticker":"NVDA","insiderName":"Teter Timothy S.","officerTitle":"EVP, General Counsel and Sec","transactionDate":"2026-09-21","transactionType":"Open-market sale","shares":12483,"pricePerShare":222.19,"valueUsd":2773637.72,"sharesOwnedAfter":2705637,"filingUrl":"https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1045810/…-index.htm"}

Examples

• Open-market buys only (the classic signal) on a watchlist: {"tickers":["AAPL","MSFT","NVDA","AMZN"],"transactionCodes":["P"],"daysBack":90}
• Large sales: {"tickers":["TSLA","META"],"transactionCodes":["S"],"minValueUsd":1000000}
• Everything, including option rows: {"tickers":["PLTR"],"transactionCodes":[],"includeDerivative":true}

Codes

P purchase · S sale · A award · M option exercise · F tax withholding · G gift · plus every other SEC code, described in words in transactionType.

Notes

• The filing window uses the filing date. Each company's most recent ~1,000 EDGAR filings are scanned.
• The Actor respects SEC fair-access rules: a declared User-Agent and at most ~8 requests per second.
• This isn't investment advice.

How to use it

Add one or more tickers (or SEC CIKs), pick a filing-date window and the transaction codes you care about, and click Start. Results appear in the dataset as a table you can download as CSV, Excel or JSON, and the SUMMARY record in the key-value store has the net buy/sell per company.

Input

Field	Name	Type	What it does
tickers	Tickers	array	US-listed tickers, e.g. AAPL, NVDA, TSLA. Resolved to SEC CIKs automatically.
ciks	CIKs (optional)	array	SEC CIK numbers for companies without a ticker.
daysBack	Filed in the last N days	integer	Form 4 filing-date window.
transactionCodes	Transaction codes	array	SEC codes to keep: P = open-market buy, S = open-market sale, A = award, M = option exercise, F = tax withholding, G = gift. Empty = all.
minValueUsd	Minimum value (USD)	integer	Only transactions worth at least this much (shares x price).
includeDerivative	Include derivative transactions	boolean	Also return option/RSU rows from Table II.
maxFilingsPerCompany	Max filings per company	integer	Cap on Form 4 filings read per company.
userAgent	SEC User-Agent (optional)	string	SEC asks for a name and contact email in the User-Agent. Leave empty to use the Actor's default.

Output fields

Field	Meaning
ticker	Issuer ticker
issuerName	Issuer
issuerCik	Issuer CIK
insiderName	Reporting insider
insiderCik	Insider CIK
insiderRoles	Director / Officer / 10% owner / Other
officerTitle	Officer title
additionalReportingOwners	Other joint filers
form	4 or 4/A
filingDate	Filed with SEC
transactionDate	Trade date
transactionCode	SEC transaction code
transactionType	Code in words
acquiredOrDisposed	Acquired or Disposed
securityTitle	Security
isDerivative	Derivative (Table II) row
shares	Shares
pricePerShare	Price per share (USD)
valueUsd	Shares x price
sharesOwnedAfter	Holdings after the trade
directOrIndirect	Direct or Indirect ownership
rule10b5_1Plan	Filer ticked the Rule 10b5-1 plan box
accessionNumber	EDGAR accession number
filingUrl	EDGAR filing index page
source	Data source

Use it from the API

Run it from your own code with the Apify API (replace $APIFY_TOKEN with your own token):

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/plainfetch-data~sec-insider-trades/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=$APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"tickers":["AAPL","NVDA"],"transactionCodes":["P"],"daysBack":90}'

It also works with the Apify Python and JavaScript clients, Make, Zapier, n8n and MCP-based AI agents.

FAQ

Is this the same data as the SEC website? Yes. Every row is parsed from the Form 4 XML filed on SEC EDGAR, and each row links to the original filing so you can check it.

How do I see only insider buying? Set transactionCodes to ["P"]. P is an open-market purchase, the code most investors watch.

Can I track a whole watchlist every day? Yes. Add your tickers, set daysBack to 1 or 2, and schedule the Actor daily in Apify Schedules. Export to CSV, Excel, JSON or Google Sheets, or call it from the API.

What is the 10b5-1 flag? rule10b5_1Plan is true when the filing marks the trade as made under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan. Planned sales usually carry less signal than discretionary ones.

Does it cover Form 3 and Form 5? Not yet. It reads Form 4 and 4/A only.

Pricing

Free while in beta: you pay only your Apify platform usage. Pay-per-event pricing may be added later, with the advance notice Apify requires.

Data source

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR (https://www.sec.gov/edgar). This is public U.S. government data. Plainfetch is an independent tool. It isn't affiliated with or endorsed by the SEC.

Local development

pip install -r requirements.txt pytest
python -m pytest tests
python -m src   # reads storage/key_value_stores/default/INPUT.json