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SEC Form 4 Insider Trading Tracker

Parses SEC Form 4 filings to expose actual insider transactions: CEO/CFO/Director open-market buys & sells, options exercises, awards. Returns ticker, insider name, role, transaction code, shares, price, USD value. Strong quant signal source.

Why this exists

When a CEO buys $5M of their own stock on the open market, the stock tends to outperform over the next 12 months. This pattern — and dozens of others — drive a whole class of quant strategies.

The data is free at SEC EDGAR — but parsing it requires:

1. Watching the Form 4 atom feed
2. For each filing, fetching and parsing the underlying ownership XML
3. Decoding transaction codes (P/S/A/M/F/G/D/C/X)

This actor automates the whole pipeline and returns one clean row per transaction.

What you get per row

SEC Transaction Codes (decoded)

The onlyBuys filter keeps just A (acquisitions) — useful for filtering noise.

Use cases

1. Quant alpha — Open-market insider buys > $1M historically outperform the S&P by ~4% over 12 months
2. Cluster signal — Multiple insiders buying same ticker within 30d = strong conviction
3. Avoid distribution — Large CEO/CFO sells often precede negative news
4. Earnings prep — Insider trades in the 30 days before earnings are highly informative
5. Compliance — Daily snapshot of insider activity for your portfolio companies

Quick start

Default — latest 50 Form 4 filings, all transactions

{}

Only meaningful open-market buys

{
"countFromFeed":100,
"onlyBuys":true,
"minValueUsd":100000
}

Track specific tickers

{
"tickers":["AAPL","NVDA","TSLA","MSFT"],
"minValueUsd":50000
}

Alert on $1M+ open-market insider buys

{
"countFromFeed":100,
"onlyBuys":true,
"alertMinValueUsd":1000000,
"telegramBotToken":"YOUR_BOT_TOKEN",
"telegramChatId":"YOUR_CHAT_ID"
}

Pricing

Pay-Per-Event: $0.002 per insider transaction row returned.

vs Insider Insights / Verafin at $300+/mo, with the same raw data.

Compliance

The SEC's Fair Use Policy requires a descriptive User-Agent with a contact email. Pass contactEmail in input to set yours; the default works for testing.

Data source

SEC EDGAR Form 4 Atom Feed + per-filing ownership XML (parsed automatically).

Related actors (same author)

• SEC EDGAR Filing Tracker — Other form types (10-K, 8-K, 13F-HR)
• Stock Earnings Calendar Tracker
• Smart Money Wallet Tracker — On-chain equivalent for crypto

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