Finding Insider Activity
Open the Insider Trades Section
Select Insider Trades from the main sidebar. This opens the global insider activity feed, showing the most recent Form 4 filings across all covered companies in real time.
Browse or Search
Scroll the global feed to see recent activity across the market, or use the search bar to narrow down to a specific company or ticker. Searching for a ticker shows you only that company’s insider transactions — useful when you’re in the middle of researching a specific stock.
Apply Filters
Use the filter controls to focus on what you care about:
- Transaction type — buy, sell, option exercise, gift
- Insider role — CEO, CFO, Director, 10% Owner, or any other reporting person
- Date range — last 7 days, 30 days, 90 days, or a custom range
Reading the Conviction Score
Every insider transaction on Insighthread carries a Conviction Score — a proprietary signal that measures how meaningful a transaction is likely to be.| Score | What it typically means |
|---|---|
| High | Large open-market purchase by a senior insider (CEO, CFO, board member), often during a period of cluster activity. This is the most significant signal. |
| Medium | Moderate purchase, or a purchase by a lower-ranking insider. Worth watching, but less definitive on its own. |
| Low | Routine option exercise, a small transaction, or a sale that follows a compensation grant. These happen on a scheduled basis and carry little independent signal. |
Spotting Cluster Signals
A single insider buying shares is interesting. Multiple insiders at the same company buying shares within the same short window is far more meaningful. Insighthread automatically detects cluster signals — instances where two or more insiders at the same company transact in the same direction within a defined time period. When you see a cluster flag on a company:- Click through to see the individual transactions that make up the cluster
- Check the roles involved — a CEO and two independent directors all buying is a stronger cluster than junior insiders
- Note the total dollar value across all cluster transactions, not just the individual amounts
Using the Sector Heat Map
The Sector Heat Map gives you a bird’s-eye view of where insider activity is concentrated across the entire market. Instead of looking company by company, the heat map shows you which sectors are seeing unusual levels of insider buying or selling right now. Use the heat map to:- Identify sectors with outsized buying — if multiple insiders across multiple biotech companies are buying simultaneously, that’s a sector-level signal
- Spot distribution patterns — heavy insider selling concentrated in one sector can be an early warning sign
- Generate research ideas — a sector showing strong cluster buy signals gives you a starting list of companies worth investigating further
Setting Up Alerts via Watchlists
The fastest way to stay on top of insider activity for companies you follow is to add them to a Watchlist. Once a company is on your watchlist, its insider transactions appear prominently in your filtered news and filing feeds — you won’t have to check the global feed manually. See the Use Watchlists guide for instructions on creating and managing your watchlists.Insider trading disclosures are informational signals, not guarantees of future price performance. Many factors drive stock prices, and insiders can be — and sometimes are — wrong about their own companies. Nothing on Insighthread constitutes investment advice. Always conduct your own due diligence before making any investment decision.
Research a Stock
Combine insider data with filings, financials, and earnings to build a complete picture of any public company.
Use Watchlists
Add companies to a watchlist so their insider transactions surface automatically in your personalized feed.