# SEC Form 4 Insider Tracker — OpenInsider-Style Screener (`nexgendata/sec-form4-insider-tracker`) Actor

Track Form 4 insider trades with role and size filters from SEC EDGAR — parsed, source-linked JSON for analysts, funds and AI agents.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/nexgendata/sec-form4-insider-tracker.md
- **Developed by:** [NexGenData](https://apify.com/nexgendata) (community)
- **Categories:** Developer tools
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## Pricing

from $50.00 / 1,000 form 4 records

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.
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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## SEC Form 4 Insider Tracker

**Which Form 4 actor?** This is the **screener** one — OpenInsider-style role and size filters over recent activity. For scheduled alerts use the *Form 4 Monitor*; for raw EDGAR XML use the *Form 4 Scraper*. Track Form 4 insider trades with role and size filters from SEC EDGAR, parsed into clean JSON. Built for analysts, funds, fintech builders and AI agents. Factual public SEC/EDGAR data — not financial or investment advice. Not affiliated with the U.S. SEC.

### 📊 What you get

Clean JSON, one record per record. Key fields (full output has 22 fields):

- `company_name` — Company / filer name
- `filing_date` — Filing date
- `total_value_usd` — USD value
  Every record carries a direct **sec.gov** source link.

**Pricing:** $0.10 per record (Pay-Per-Event) — about **10 records per $1**.

### 🤖 Use with AI agents

Structured, source-linked SEC data built for LLM and agent pipelines — point Claude, the OpenAI Agents SDK, an n8n flow or any MCP-aware client at it and pull Form 4 insider trades with role and size filters on demand.

**Sample agent prompt:**

```
Show me insider purchases over $1M by directors in the last week.
```

**Agentic payments (x402):** Supports agentic payment via x402 — agents can call this actor with USDC, no API key required.

### ⏰ Run on a schedule

The recurring frame is the point — schedule a daily or weekly pull:

```json
{
  "ticker": "AAPL",
  "limit": 50
}
```

### 🔗 Related SEC actors

**More insider trackers:** [Form 4 Monitor](https://apify.com/nexgendata/sec-form-4-insider-monitor), [Form 4 Scraper](https://apify.com/nexgendata/sec-form-4-insider-trading-scraper), [Form 3 Tracker](https://apify.com/nexgendata/sec-form-3-new-insider-tracker), [Form 144 Tracker](https://apify.com/nexgendata/sec-form-144-restricted-stock-sales-tracker)

**Agent front doors:** [SEC Corporate Events MCP](https://apify.com/nexgendata/sec-corporate-events-mcp), [Regulatory Filings MCP](https://apify.com/nexgendata/regulatory-filings-mcp)

***

*Data parsed from public SEC EDGAR filings. Factual public SEC/EDGAR data — not financial or investment advice. Not affiliated with the U.S. SEC.*

# Actor input Schema

## `limit` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of Form 4 transaction records to push to the dataset (one row per insider transaction line). OpenInsider returns the most recent records first, sorted by filing date descending. Typical insider-flow analysts pull 100–500 records per refresh.

## `transaction_type` (type: `string`):

Filter to open-market insider buys (P codes), open-market sells (S codes), or all transactions. 'Buys' is the highest-signal subset — directors and officers typically only buy with their own cash when they believe the stock is undervalued. 'Sells' includes both informed sales and routine 10b5-1 plan sales.

## `date_range` (type: `string`):

How far back to look for Form 4 filings (by SEC filing date, not transaction date — insiders have 2 business days to file). Use last\_7d for breaking news / event-driven flow; last\_30d for the standard insider-monitor window; last\_90d for backtests; all for the full OpenInsider history available on the screener.

## `min_value_usd` (type: `integer`):

Skip transactions below this dollar value. The dollar value is shares × price per share. Common thresholds: $25,000 (filter routine awards/gifts), $100,000 (material trades by mid-level officers), $1,000,000 (meaningful CEO/CFO conviction trades). Leave at 0 for no filter.

## `ticker` (type: `string`):

Restrict results to a single US-listed ticker symbol (e.g. 'AAPL', 'TSLA', 'NVDA'). Leave blank to pull all tickers — the screener covers every US-listed common stock with a Form 4 filing in the requested window.

## `insider_role` (type: `string`):

Filter by the insider's reported role / relationship. 'CEO' isolates the highest-signal trades (CEO buys are the strongest documented insider signal in academic studies). '10%\_owner' surfaces large strategic holders. 'all' returns every officer + director + 10% owner.

## `cluster_only` (type: `boolean`):

If true, return only transactions where 3+ insiders at the same company traded in the same direction within the prior 30 days (cluster-buy / cluster-sell signal). Cluster buys are widely considered the strongest insider conviction signal — the academic consensus is that they outperform the market by 6–12% in the following 12 months.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "limit": 100,
  "transaction_type": "buys",
  "date_range": "last_30d",
  "min_value_usd": 0,
  "ticker": "",
  "insider_role": "all",
  "cluster_only": false
}
```

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "limit": 100,
    "transaction_type": "buys",
    "date_range": "last_30d",
    "min_value_usd": 0,
    "ticker": "",
    "insider_role": "all",
    "cluster_only": false
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("nexgendata/sec-form4-insider-tracker").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "limit": 100,
    "transaction_type": "buys",
    "date_range": "last_30d",
    "min_value_usd": 0,
    "ticker": "",
    "insider_role": "all",
    "cluster_only": False,
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("nexgendata/sec-form4-insider-tracker").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "limit": 100,
  "transaction_type": "buys",
  "date_range": "last_30d",
  "min_value_usd": 0,
  "ticker": "",
  "insider_role": "all",
  "cluster_only": false
}' |
apify call nexgendata/sec-form4-insider-tracker --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,nexgendata/sec-form4-insider-tracker"
        }
    }
}

```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/iwhnio1kE5kIexaYX/builds/uhi17RMm5Kkhep6QM/openapi.json