An insider trading tracker that tells you when executives buy.
When a corporate officer or director trades their own company's stock, the SEC requires them to file a Form 4 — usually within two business days. Those filings are public, free, and mostly unread, because reading them means checking EDGAR by hand. An insider trading tracker does that reading for you and tells you when someone who runs the company put their own money on the table.
Key takeaways
- Insiders file Form 4 within two business days of a trade, so insider data is far fresher than congressional disclosures, which run on a 45-day deadline.
- Insider buying carries more signal than insider selling — executives sell for taxes, diversification, and scheduled 10b5-1 plans, but they usually buy for one reason.
- A single filing rarely means anything. Clusters do: several officers buying inside the same window is the pattern worth a second look.
- StockPlus shows a market-wide feed of recent Form 4 filings across every ticker, plus a per-ticker filing history on any individual stock's page. The feed is free on both plans.
How it works
Open the market-wide feed
The feed lists recent Form 4 filings across the whole market, most recent first — there is nothing to add first. Want one company's history instead? Open that stock's own page for its per-ticker filings.
See filings as they land
Each entry shows the insider's name and ticker, whether it was a buy or a sale, the trade's dollar value (or share count when a filing has no price), and how long ago it happened — the details that decide whether a filing is interesting. The filer's job title is not shown: our data source does not publish the Form 4 reporting-owner relationship, so we would rather leave it out than guess it.
Read it next to everything else
The insider feed sits alongside congressional trades, price alerts, and the Pulse Score for the same ticker, so a filing is one input rather than an isolated notification.
Frequently asked questions
- What is an insider trading tracker?
- It is a tool that reads SEC Form 4 filings — the disclosures corporate officers, directors, and large shareholders must submit when they trade their own company's stock — and presents them in a readable feed. It tracks legal, disclosed insider trading, not the illegal kind.
- Is tracking insider trades legal?
- Yes. Form 4 filings are public records published by the SEC precisely so that investors can see them. Acting on public disclosures is legal; trading on material non-public information is what is not, and that information never appears in a Form 4.
- How quickly do insider trades get disclosed?
- Form 4 is generally due within two business days of the transaction. That makes insider data considerably fresher than congressional trade disclosures, which the STOCK Act allows up to 45 days to report.
- Does insider buying predict the stock price?
- No tracker can promise that, and any that does is selling something. Academic work has found modest predictive value in insider purchases and very little in insider sales, because sales have many innocent explanations — taxes, diversification, or a pre-scheduled 10b5-1 plan. Treat a filing as one input, not a signal.
- Do I need a brokerage account to track insider trades?
- No. StockPlus is a monitoring tool, not a broker. The insider feed works without linking a brokerage account and without funding anything.
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