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Form 4s, from EDGAR

The insider trades that actually move markets.

Form 4s straight from EDGAR, read every 2 hours in the day for the S&P 500 and nightly for the rest, with grants and gifts set aside and clusters of buying flagged.

How old a filing is when it landsdays, to scale
  1. Form 4from an insider’s trade

    Due within 2 business days. Convexity reads it every 2 hours for the S&P 500, nightly for the rest.

  2. Congressfrom a member’s trade

    Due within 45 days. Convexity reads it four times a day.

  3. 13Ffrom the quarter’s end

    Due within 45 days. Convexity reads it weekdays.

Deadlines: SEC Rule 16a-3, STOCK Act section 6 and SEC Rule 13f-1, retrieved 2026-10-19.

From every Form 4 to the trades worth reading.

Most Form 4s are routine. Convexity keeps each filing, scores each trade by what it is, and looks for buying that bunches up.

  1. 01

    EDGAR

    Form 4 XML from EDGAR, every 2 hours from 06:00 to 20:00 UTC for the S&P 500, and nightly for the rest.

  2. 02

    Codes

    Each trade keeps its transaction code. Awards, gifts and trades under $1,000 score zero and stay out of every list.

  3. 03

    10b5-1 plans

    The plan box, or a footnote naming the rule, marks a planned trade. The alt-data clusters drop those; the tape still lists them.

  4. 04

    Clusters

    The tape flags three or more buys in a name inside 10 days, four or more sales, and trades over $5 million.

Scheduled liquidity vs. discretionary conviction.

Scheduled

A sale under a 10b5-1 plan was set up months before it happened, so it says little about what the insider thinks today.

Discretionary

An open-market buy has no plan behind it. Purchases score highest, a C-suite buyer higher still, and buys that bunch up are the ones the clusters find.

Every code kept, the routine set aside.

Each trade keeps the code its filing gives it, and the code decides how it scores.

  • POpen-market purchase

    The strongest score, raised for a C-suite buyer and for size.

  • SOpen-market sale

    Scored below a purchase, raised at $5 million.

  • MOption exercise

    Kept and scored low, and left out of the clusters and the tape’s table.

  • FTax withholding

    Kept and scored low, and left out of the clusters and the tape’s table.

  • A G J K WAwards, gifts, other

    Scored zero and kept out of every list, as is any trade under $1,000.

Each code’s score for a trade of $50,000 or more, to scale; the outline is what a C-suite buyer and size can add. A kept trade under $50,000 scores as low as F.

Insider trades across the terminal.

  • Insider Flow

    The S&P 500’s trades of $50,000 and up from the last 30 days, the cluster tape, and Congress and Leaders tabs. Free runs a day behind.

  • The stock page

    180 days of a company’s insider trades in its Ownership section, 90 on Free.

  • Ask

    Reads a name’s insider trades and its earnings dates in the same answer.

  • Your inbox

    A cluster of insider buying in a name you watch or hold lands three times a day, on every plan.

Sketches of the screens, not their data.

Stop parsing EDGAR filings by hand.

Form 4s from EDGAR, scored and clustered: a day behind on Free, as each sync lands on Pro.