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# Insider trades

> What company insiders bought and sold, from SEC Form 4.

Executives, directors and 10% owners must report their trades in their own company's stock on SEC Form 4. AlphaYou shows them with a link to each filing.

## What counts

AlphaYou counts **open-market buys and sales**. It leaves out grants, awards, option exercises, gifts, private-deal purchases and amended filings.

A Form 4 is due before the end of the second business day after the trade. So a trade can show up 2 business days later, and sometimes later still.

## Where to look

* **Insiders tracker:** buys and sells by insider or by stock. Filter by activity (all, buys, sales), trade type, role (all, C-suite, directors) and period. Search by name, company or ticker. Each row links to the SEC filing.
* **Insider buying today and this week:** large recent purchases, plus a list of CEO, CFO and chairman buys.
* **SEC Form 4 filings:** the newest large buys and sells.

## The labels

| Label | Meaning |
| - | - |
| No badge | An open-market trade |
| Scheduled | Arranged in advance: a Rule 10b5-1 plan set months earlier, or stock options cashed out in the same filing |
| Private deal | Shares came through a private deal, not a stock market buy. It is not counted as insider buying |

A scheduled trade says less than one the insider chose on the day.

## Clusters

A cluster is several different insiders at one company buying in a short time. On the weekly page, a cluster buy is 2 or more different insiders buying the same stock in the same week. A cluster is a plain count, not a prediction.

## Free and Pro

Free shows a sample of recent filings, and Pro shows more. See [Plans and pricing](https://docs.alphayou.net/plans.md). Alerts on insider buys skip scheduled and private-deal trades. See [Alerts and watchlists](https://docs.alphayou.net/research/alerts-and-watchlists.md).

For the underlying data, see the [API data dictionary](https://docs.alphayou.net/api/data-dictionary.md).


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