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Insider trading API: SEC Form 4 buys and sells per ticker
Corporate insiders must report their own trades to the SEC on Form 4 within two business days. The filings endpoint parses those filings from EDGAR for a ticker and returns each transaction with the insider's name and role, whether it was a buy or a sell, the share count, price and dollar value, along with the company's recent 8-K event filings.
Buys versus sells
Insider buying is the rarer and more informative event: executives sell for many reasons (diversification, taxes, scheduled plans) but buy with their own money for one. The verdict endpoint turns this into a factor by counting distinct buyers against sellers over the last fourteen days and flagging clusters of buyers.
8-K filings
Form 8-K announces material events. The response lists recent ones with their item numbers; item 2.02 is a results announcement, 5.02 an executive change, 1.01 a material agreement, and so on.
Request
curl -H "Authorization: Bearer sk_live_…" \
"https://api.vanoe.ai/v1/filings/TSLA"Response
{
"data": {
"ticker": "TSLA",
"insider_transactions": [
{"insider": "Taneja Vaibhav", "role": "Chief Financial Officer", "type": "sell",
"shares": 2605.75, "price": 360.134, "value_usd": 938419.17, "date": "2026-09-08"}
],
"recent_8k": [
{"date": "2026-07-22", "item": "2.02,9.01"},
{"date": "2026-07-02", "item": "2.02,9.01"}
]
},
"as_of": "2026-09-10", "freshness": "intraday", "suggested_recheck_seconds": 21600,
"disclaimer": "Informational data only. Not financial advice. This is not a recommendation, solicitation, or offer to buy or sell any security."
}Cost: 1 credit per call.
Fields
| insider_transactions[].type | buy · sell |
| role | the insider's reported role, e.g. Chief Financial Officer or Director |
| value_usd | shares × price |
| recent_8k[].item | 8-K item numbers, comma-separated |
Questions
How fresh is insider data?
Form 4 must be filed within two business days of the trade; the endpoint reads EDGAR with a six-hour recheck interval.
Does it cover every filer?
It covers Form 4 transactions filed under the company's CIK, which is where officer, director and 10% owner trades are reported.
Try it
Free tier: 1,000 credits a month, no card. Every response is informational data only, not financial advice.