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US insider transactions read directly from SEC Form 3, 4 and 5 filings by ORTEX, typically within minutes of the filing hitting EDGAR.

Each row is one reported transaction line, carrying the issuer, the insider with their roles, the SEC transaction code, shares, price and computed USD value, post-transaction holdings, the 10b5-1 plan flag, and a link to the filing on sec.gov.

Available Data Points:

• Company / Exchange / Ticker: The issuer of the security.
• Filed Date / Transaction Date: When the form was filed, and when the trade happened.
• Form Type: 3 (initial ownership), 4 (changes), 5 (annual), and amendments (/A).
• Insider Name / Insider CIK: The reporting person and their stable SEC identifier - the same CIK identifies them across every company they file at.
• Roles: Director, officer (with title) and 10%-owner flags, as declared on the filing.
• Transaction Code: The SEC code: P (open-market purchase), S (sale), A (award), M (option exercise), F (tax withholding), G (gift), and the rest of the Form 4 vocabulary.
• Shares / Price Per Share / Value: The transaction line, with value = shares x price.
• Shares Owned After: Post-transaction beneficial holdings.
• Direct Or Indirect: D for directly held, I for indirect (trusts, entities).
• Is 10b5 1 Plan: Whether the filing declares the trade was made under a 10b5-1 plan.
• Is Derivative: False for table-I (non-derivative) lines, true for table-II (options etc.).
• SEC URL: The filing's index page on sec.gov.

Filtering

from_date/to_date bound the filed date (both optional; the window may span at most 92 days and defaults to the 30 days to today - the Form 4 stream runs thousands of rows a day, so windows are shorter than other feeds). ticker, transaction_code and insider_name narrow the feed; transaction_code=P isolates open-market purchases, the highest-signal insider event.

Reading the codes

Open-market activity is P and S. A, M and F are compensation mechanics (grants, option exercises, tax withholding) - meaningful for holdings, not sentiment. G is a gift, C a conversion, J/K/U other or small acquisitions.

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