Everything you need to know about tracking insider trades with Form4.ai.
Form4.ai is a real-time insider trading alert service. We monitor SEC Form 4 filings the moment they hit the SEC's EDGAR system and send you a Telegram alert when a CEO, CFO, director, or major shareholder buys or sells their own company's stock — so you can follow the moves of corporate insiders as they happen.
A Form 4 is the disclosure that company insiders — officers, directors, and shareholders who own more than 10% of a company — are legally required to file with the SEC whenever they buy or sell shares. It must be filed within two business days of the trade, which makes it one of the most timely and reliable signals of what insiders really think about their own stock.
Insiders know their business better than anyone. When executives spend their own money buying shares on the open market, it often signals genuine confidence in the company's future. Academic research has repeatedly shown that open-market insider purchases tend to outperform the broader market, which is why professional and retail investors alike watch Form 4 activity closely.
Fast. Form4.ai polls the SEC's filing feed continuously and delivers Pro alerts to your Telegram within about two minutes of a Form 4 being filed — usually before the news is picked up anywhere else, giving you time to react before the market does.
Alerts are delivered straight to Telegram. After you sign up, you connect your Telegram account in a few taps and start receiving alerts in your chosen channels or as direct messages. There's no app to install beyond Telegram, which you can use on your phone, desktop, or the web.
The Free plan gives you access to the filings dashboard on a delayed basis plus basic Telegram channels, so you can explore historical insider activity. The Pro plan ($24.99/month or $249/year) unlocks real-time alerts, the CRITICAL and HIGH priority channels, cluster-buy detection, and custom watchlist rules for the specific tickers you care about. Every Pro subscription starts with a 7-day free trial.
Not every insider transaction is meaningful — a lot of activity is routine compensation, option exercises, or tax-related sales. Form4.ai scores each filing and assigns a CRITICAL, HIGH, or LOW priority based on the dollar size of the trade, the insider's role (C-suite, director, or 10% owner), and the transaction type, so you can focus on high-conviction open-market purchases and filter out the noise.
A cluster buy is when several different insiders at the same company purchase shares within a short window. When multiple executives independently put their own money into the stock at once, it's often a stronger signal than a single purchase. Form4.ai automatically detects these clusters and highlights them for Pro subscribers.
Yes. Pro subscribers can build a personal watchlist and create custom screener rules — filter by ticker, minimum trade size, insider role, transaction type, and conviction thresholds such as the percentage change in an insider's holdings. When a filing matches one of your rules, you get a direct Telegram alert.
It depends on your plan. Pro subscribers receive alerts in real time, within roughly two minutes of a filing. The Free dashboard shows insider filings on a delayed basis so you can research and explore before upgrading.
A Rule 10b5-1 plan is a pre-scheduled trading arrangement that lets insiders buy or sell on a fixed, automated schedule. Because these trades are planned in advance, they carry less signal than discretionary open-market buys. Form4.ai lets Pro subscribers exclude 10b5-1 transactions from their watchlist alerts so they only see conviction trades.
Absolutely. Form 4 filings are public records that the SEC requires insiders to disclose, and Form4.ai simply surfaces this public information faster and in a more usable format. This is completely different from illegal insider trading, which involves acting on material non-public information.
Yes. Every Pro plan includes a 7-day free trial and you can cancel at any time — there are no long-term contracts. Payments are handled securely through Stripe.
All of our data comes directly from the SEC's official EDGAR system, the authoritative source for Form 4 and other insider filings. We parse each filing as soon as it's published so the information you receive is accurate and traceable back to the original SEC document.
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