edgar_insider_transactions
SEC Insider Transactions (Form 4)
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Insider buying and selling for a U.S. public company, parsed from SEC Form 4 filings.
Form 4 is published as raw ownership XML, one document per filing, with the machine-readable file hidden behind an XSL-rendered URL. This resolves the ticker to a CIK, finds the most recent filings, fetches each XML document, and returns clean transactions: who traded, their role, the date, the SEC transaction code with its plain-English meaning, share count, price, computed dollar value, and shares held afterwards.
When to use: tracking insider sentiment, checking whether executives are buying or selling, auditing recent officer and director activity.
When NOT to use: you need institutional holdings (that is Form 13F), or derivative/option detail (only non-derivative transactions are returned), or non-U.S. issuers.
Args:
- ticker (string, required): a ticker such as "AAPL", or a bare CIK such as "320193".
- limit (integer, optional, default 5): how many recent filings to parse (1-20).
- forms (string[], optional, default ["4"]): which ownership forms to include ("3", "4", "5").
Returns structuredContent:
{
"cik": "0000320193", "issuer": "Apple Inc.", "ticker": "AAPL", "count": 1,
"filings": [{
"filedAt": "2026-08-13", "owner": "Newstead Jennifer",
"ownerTitle": "SVP, GC and Secretary", "isOfficer": true, "isDirector": false,
"transactions": [{ "date": "2026-08-11", "code": "S",
"codeMeaning": "Open-market or private sale", "acquiredDisposed": "D",
"shares": 1439, "pricePerShare": 307.75, "value": 442852.25,
"sharesOwnedAfter": 40107 }],
"documentUrl": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/..."
}],
"source": "https://www.sec.gov/edgar"
}
An individual filing that cannot be parsed is skipped rather than failing the call. If nothing at
all is parseable the call errors and is not billed.
Input schema
| Property | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| ticker | string | yes | Ticker symbol (e.g. "AAPL") or a bare SEC CIK (e.g. "320193"). |
| limit | integer | no | How many recent ownership filings to parse (1-20). Default 5. |
| forms | array | no | Which ownership forms to include. Defaults to ["4"]. |
Raw JSON schema
{
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"ticker": {
"type": "string",
"minLength": 1,
"description": "Ticker symbol (e.g. \"AAPL\") or a bare SEC CIK (e.g. \"320193\")."
},
"limit": {
"type": "integer",
"minimum": 1,
"maximum": 20,
"default": 5,
"description": "How many recent ownership filings to parse (1-20). Default 5."
},
"forms": {
"type": "array",
"items": {
"type": "string",
"enum": [
"3",
"4",
"5"
]
},
"description": "Which ownership forms to include. Defaults to [\"4\"]."
}
},
"required": [
"ticker"
],
"additionalProperties": false,
"$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#"
}