Insider Trading (SEC)

Overview

Recent insider transactions from official SEC Forms 3, 4 and 5 for any covered US equity — who bought (code P) or sold (code S), their role, shares, price and dollar value, 10b5-1 status, footnotes and direct links to each filing. Form 3/4/5 amendments no longer duplicate the original transaction: the store replaces only rows that map unambiguously to an original filing and the read path conservatively removes exact amendment repeats from older profiles; `storeStats.supersededAmendmentDuplicates` discloses how many were suppressed. Untouched original rows remain available when an amendment is partial. `summary.activity` measures three-month net direction, price coverage, buy/sell value ratio and the largest priced trade before response filters and limits. If even one active trade is unpriced, its direction and buy/sell ratio become `insufficient_priced_data`/`null` rather than drawing a conclusion from only the priced subset. `summary.momentum3Months` compares the latest three-month window with the preceding non-overlapping three months and applies the same complete-value requirement. Administrative codes A/M/F/G and tax-withholding sales are retained only when requested and never treated as voluntary market trades. Source: SEC EDGAR (no X/Twitter).

Use it toSee what a company's own executives and directors are doing with their shares.

Successful responses expose the latest SEC retrieval in `X-Raspberry-Insiders-Retrieved-At` and `Last-Modified`. Authenticated results are private-cacheable and are never marked for a shared public cache. Stored transaction values are rejected unless shares, price and gross value are non-negative and gross value reconciles to shares × price within half a cent; incomplete price inputs must keep gross value null. Transaction-code filters accept individual one-letter SEC codes; malformed codes return HTTP 400 instead of a misleading empty result. `code` may repeat as a list; repeated scalar `limit`, `since` or `include_noise` parameters return HTTP 400. A ticker the SEC company map does not hold returns HTTP 404 with a body that says why — ETFs and funds (SMH, XLK), index or futures symbols (NQ, MNQ) and foreign shares listed only abroad (RMS, ADYEN) never file company reports — plus `suggestions`, the mapped tickers one typo away (APPL → AAPL) or an empty list when none is close. `coverage` states how many Forms 3, 4 and 5 are stored for the mapped registrant and, when there are none, says why in `coverage.note` instead of implying those insiders never traded — foreign private issuers do not file ownership forms (ASML), a recently reorganized registrant can keep its insider history under a predecessor entity this API does not map (XOM), and forms listed under a company's CIK can be filings where it is only a reporting owner of another issuer (SHOP, BAM, ARL). When a reviewed ownership-CIK alias merges a predecessor or successor registrant's stored history, `coverage.aliasCiks` names the CIKs that were merged, so a client can always see when one answer combines two registrants. Each transaction carries the flags that decide how it must be read: `voluntaryMarketTrade` (an actual decision to buy or sell on the market), `administrativeNoise`, `isTaxWithholding` (shares surrendered to pay tax on a vesting, not a sale), `isPlanPurchase` (acquired through an employee plan such as an ESPP or a dividend reinvestment: a purchase, but not a decision), `is10b5One` (a pre-scheduled plan), and `alertEligible` with the `alertReason` that explains an exclusion. `summary.clusterBuy30Days` splits its buyers into `insiderBuyers` (directors and officers — the people who run the company) and `tenPercentBuyers` (large holders and nothing else), because a fund accumulating and four executives buying are different readings of the same count: measured on 2026-09-22 over the 56 issuers with a cluster, 39 were executives only, 11 mixed and 6 were entirely ten-percent holders. `summary.activity` reports how much of the period is actually priced (`valueCoverageRatio`, `pricedTrades3Months`, `unpricedTrades3Months`), the buy/sell value balance and the largest priced trade; `summary.momentum3Months` compares the current three months with the previous three and states each delta. Every field of this response is declared, field by field, in the machine-readable contract at `/api/v1/schema` (JSON Schema 2020-12); the test suite validates each response against it.

Coverage

Call it

Send your ra_live_… key in the x-api-key header. Pick your language:

curl "https://raspberrytrades.com/api/v1/insider-trades/AAPL" \
  -H "x-api-key: ra_live_your_key_here"