Insider Trades Screener

Insider Trades Screener Guide

Insider transactions can be a useful signal, but they rarely tell the whole story on their own. A purchase by an executive may mean something very different from a sale by another insider, and one large trade may matter less than a broader pattern of insider activity over time.

The challenge is context: insiders buy and sell shares for many reasons, and raw trade data can be difficult to interpret when you’re reviewing transactions one by one.

An insider trades screener helps investors cut through that noise by narrowing the market to companies with the specific insider activity they want to study. Instead of reviewing SEC filings individually, investors can filter and compare insider trades by country, transaction date, insider name, buy or sell activity, number of shares, price per share and total transaction value.

By organizing this information into a single, sortable view, an insider trades screener makes it easier to spot patterns, such as repeated insider buying, clusters of selling or unusually large transactions in a specific stock. It’s most useful when investors know what they’re looking for, whether that’s insider buying, insider selling trends or transaction activity over a defined period.

For example:

• If you're looking for signs of management confidence, you might screen for large insider purchases by share count or total transaction value.
• If you're monitoring potential caution signals, you might screen for significant insider selling over a defined date range.
• If you're researching a specific person or company, you might filter by insider name and compare recent transaction activity.

A screener doesn’t replace research, but it can help investors quickly identify insider activity that may deserve a closer look.

How to Use the MarketBeat Insider Trades Screener

MarketBeat’s Insider Trades Screener helps investors review and compare insider buying and selling activity by filtering for the transactions that matter most. The tool is available to All Access users and supports screening by country, transaction date, insider name, buy/sell activity, number of shares, price per share and total transaction value. Users can also sort results, adjust the number of results displayed and export results for additional analysis.

At the top of the page, you can start broad or narrow your screen by selecting a country, transaction date range or buy/sell activity. You can also refine results by insider name, number of shares, price per share and total transaction value.

1. Choose the insider activity you want to screen

The screener is most useful when you begin with the type of insider activity you want to study. You can screen a broad set of transactions or narrow your results using filters such as:

• Country
• Transaction date
• Insider name
• Buy/sell activity
• Number of shares
• Price per share
• Total transaction value

This is where the screener becomes more than a list of SEC filings. Instead of reviewing transactions individually, you can quickly identify the specific types of insider activity that fit your research goals.

2. Set criteria, date range and sorting

Once you know what type of insider activity you're looking for, configure the screen around that idea. You can set a beginning and ending transaction date, focus on purchases or sales and narrow the list by share count, price per share or total transaction value. You can also choose how results are ordered and how many results are displayed.

3. Review, compare and export results

The results table shows the transactions that match your criteria along with key details needed for comparison, including the company name, insider name, transaction date, transaction type, number of shares, price per share and total transaction value. This makes it easier to identify trends such as repeated buying, clusters of selling or unusually large transactions.

If you want to take the analysis further, All Access subscribers can export the table for offline review, portfolio research or follow-up analysis alongside other MarketBeat tools.