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Insider activity

See which executives and directors are buying or selling their own stock. Read the biggest trades across the market, spot clusters of insiders buying together, or look up one ticker.

Company insiders must report their stock trades to the SEC on a Form 4, usually within two business days. Insider activity puts those filings in one place. Buying is the more useful signal, because insiders sell for many reasons but usually buy for one. A cluster of several insiders buying the same stock is the strongest version.

The insider activity feedThe insider activity feed
The insider activity feed

How to read the insider feed

  1. Click Insider Activity in the sidebar. With no ticker entered, you see the latest biggest insider trades across all companies.
  2. Click ALL, BUY or SELL above the table to narrow it. The table title changes to match, for example LATEST BIGGEST INSIDER BUYS.
  3. Scan the rows for the insider's name and role, the value of the trade and how much it changed their holding.
  4. Look for the CLUSTER badge. It means two or more insiders bought the same ticker, and is the highest-signal flag on the page.

The feed needs a free account. Logged-out visitors see a sign-up prompt in its place.

How to set the minimum value

  1. Open the MIN menu next to the filter buttons.
  2. Choose $50K, $100K, $500K, $1M or $5M. The default is $50K.
  3. The feed reloads with only trades at or above that size.

Raise the minimum to cut small routine trades and see the large ones.

How to look up one ticker

  1. Type a ticker in Enter ticker at the top of the page.
  2. Pick it from the list. You get a monthly chart of insider buying against selling, and a table of that company's Form 4 transactions with date, insider, buy or sell and share count.
  3. ALL, BUY and SELL filter the table. Click a row to open the filing at the SEC.

Ticker lookups work without an account. The same list is in the Insider Activity tab on Research, where free accounts see the latest 10 rows.

Good to know

  • Buy or sell is worked out from the change in shares. An option exercise that adds shares can look like a buy, so check the filing when the number matters.
  • Planned sales set up in advance look the same as ones chosen on the day. The filing text says which it was.
  • Filings arrive one to three business days after the trade, and the feed is quiet outside weekday market hours.
  • To read the full form, open the ticker's filings on SEC filings.

If something doesn't work

  • The feed asks you to sign up: the market-wide feed needs a free account. Ticker lookups do not.
  • No rows for a ticker: small caps, recent listings and foreign companies often have little or no Form 4 history.
  • The feed looks old: it can show the last session's trades outside market hours. A note at the top shows when it was last updated.