Smart Money Confluence - Insiders, Activists & Congress

When the CFO is buying, an activist just filed a 13D and a Senator bought too, you want to know. One score per ticker from four official disclosure sources, with the filings as evidence.

Data	SEC Form 4, Schedule 13D/13G, Form 144 and Congress STOCK Act disclosures
Price	$20 per 1,000 tickers, no subscription. Apify's free plan credit covers a first test.
Freshness	Latest filings on every run
Try it	The input is pre-filled with a working example: just click Start.

Example output

Ticker	Score	Signal	Evidence
XYZ	+64	Bullish	CFO and 2 directors bought; activist 13D
ABC	-38	Bearish	3 Form 144 sales; CEO sold

Illustrative rows; real runs return the full fields listed under Output.

Each smart money source on its own is noisy. Insiders sell for taxes, politicians rebalance, 13Gs are often index funds. The signal is in agreement. This Actor reads SEC Form 4 insider trades, Schedule 13D/13G stakes, Form 144 planned sales and STOCK Act Congress trades, groups everything by ticker, and returns a score from -100 to +100 that shows where the different kinds of smart money line up.

What you can do with it

• 🧭 Watchlist check-up: one row per stock you own: is smart money accumulating or heading for the exit?
• 🔎 Discovery: what did insiders, activists and politicians do in the last few hours and weeks, grouped by ticker, with confluence names first.
• 🚨 Alerts: schedule daily with minSources: 2 and get only tickers where two or more sources agree.
• 🤖 AI agents: "What is smart money doing in NVDA?" answered with the score and the filings behind it.

How the score works

Each source adds a capped component, so no single noisy source dominates:

Component	Range	What moves it
Insider buying (Form 4 code P)	0 to +35	distinct buyers (1: 12, 2: 20, 3+: 25), +5 if a CEO/CFO/President/Chair buys, +5 if $1M+ in total
Insider selling (Form 4 code S)	0 to -20	dollar value, with Rule 10b5-1 plan sales at ¼ weight; -5 more for 3+ discretionary sellers
Planned sales (Form 144)	0 to -10	dollar value of notices, plan sales at ¼ weight
13D / 13G stakes	0 to +25	new activist 13D +25, 13D amendment +10, new passive 13G +8, 13G amendment +3
Congress (STOCK Act)	-20 to +20	distinct members buying minus distinct members selling (1: 10, 2: 15, 3+: 20)

Signal: Strong bullish ≥ 40, Bullish ≥ 15, Neutral between, Bearish ≤ -15, Strong bearish ≤ -40. Every row shows its components, bullishSources, bearishSources and up to 10 evidence filings with links.

How to use it

Score your watchlist over the last 30 days

{ "tickers": ["NVDA", "AAPL", "TSLA", "MSFT"], "lookbackDays": 30 }

Discovery: only tickers where 2+ sources agree, bullish

{ "minSources": 2, "signalFilter": "bullish" }

SEC sources only (fast, no Congress)

{ "tickers": ["META", "AMZN"], "sources": ["insiders", "stakes", "plannedSales"] }

Output

One row per ticker. Example (illustrative values):

{
  "ticker": "NVDA",
  "issuerName": "NVIDIA CORP",
  "score": 40,
  "signal": "Strong bullish",
  "activeSources": 5,
  "bullishSources": ["insider buying", "13D/13G stakes", "Congress"],
  "bearishSources": ["insider selling", "planned insider sales"],
  "components": { "insiderBuying": 17, "insiderSelling": -5, "plannedSales": -7, "activistStakes": 25, "congress": 10 },
  "insiderBuyers": 1,
  "insiderBuyValueUsd": 115000,
  "insiderSellValueUsd": 2315000,
  "insiderPlanSellValueUsd": 2315000,
  "plannedSaleNotices": 2,
  "plannedSaleValueUsd": 9490000,
  "activist13DFilings": 1,
  "maxStakePercent": 5.21,
  "congressBuyers": 1,
  "politicians": ["Alex Senator (Senate)"],
  "firstActivity": "2026-09-15",
  "lastActivity": "2026-10-09",
  "evidence": [
    { "source": "stake", "action": "stake", "date": "2026-09-28", "who": "Example Activist Partners LP", "role": "13D", "detail": "13D: 5.21% of Common Stock", "url": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/…-index.htm" },
    { "source": "insider", "action": "buy", "date": "2026-09-19", "who": "Doe Jane", "role": "Chief Financial Officer", "valueUsd": 115000, "url": "…" }
  ]
}

The SUMMARY record shows how many filings each source read, failures, any source that was down, and the 10 strongest bullish and bearish tickers.

Use it from code or an AI agent

Python

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN")
run = client.actor("smartmoney-data/smart-money-confluence-score").call(run_input={"tickers": ["NVDA", "AAPL"]})
for t in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(t["ticker"], t["score"], t["signal"], t["bullishSources"])

AI agents (Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and other MCP clients): connect the Apify MCP server with this Actor preloaded:

https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=smartmoney-data/smart-money-confluence-score

Add this URL as a remote MCP server or custom connector in your AI client, sign in with Apify (OAuth), then just ask, for example:

Which of my watchlist stocks have insiders, activists and Congress buying at the same time?

No-code: schedule it and send new bullish tickers to Google Sheets, Slack, Zapier or Make.

Part of the SmartMoney Data suite: Insider Trades · Hedge Fund 13F Holdings · Congress Stock Trades · Form 144 Planned Sales · 13D/13G Activist Stakes · 8-K Material Events · Short Squeeze Radar · 13F Consensus

Pricing

Pay per ticker: you're charged for each ticker signal returned, however many filings went into it. See the Pricing tab for current rates. Set a maximum cost per run and the Actor stops cleanly when it's reached.

FAQ

What's the difference between watchlist and discovery mode? With tickers, every filing for those companies in the lookback window is read and every ticker is returned, quiet ones as Neutral. Without tickers, the Actor reads the latest filings on EDGAR (up to 100 per form) and Congress reports in the window, and returns the tickers that show up.

Why does Congress take longer? House reports are PDFs. Reading 150 reports per chamber takes a few minutes. Lower maxCongressReportsPerChamber or drop congress from sources for faster runs.

Why are 10b5-1 plan sales weighted less? They are scheduled months in advance and say little about an insider's current view. Discretionary sales do.

Does a high score mean I should buy? No. It means several groups with an information edge are acting in the same direction. Use it as a research starting point.

Is this legal to use? Yes. All four sources are public disclosures published by the SEC, the US Senate and the US House of Representatives.

Related Actors

• 👔 SEC Insider Trades Tracker: every Form 4 transaction, row by row.
• 🏛️ Congress Stock Trades Tracker: every disclosed trade by Senators and Representatives.
• 🎯 13D & 13G Activist Stakes: stake size, voting power and stated purpose.
• 🧮 Hedge Fund 13F Consensus: what the top funds bought together last quarter.

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Data is provided for informational purposes only and is not investment advice.