Use MarketBeat’s Insider Trades Screener to filter and compare insider buying and selling activity (legally disclosed transactions filed with the SEC by corporate officers, directors, and major shareholders) using customizable criteria such as insider title, transaction type, share count, price per share, and transaction value. This tool helps investors quickly identify meaningful insider trading patterns, unusual activity, and company-specific trends worth a closer look.
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Insider Trades Screener Guide
Insider transactions can be a useful signal, but they rarely tell the whole story on their own. A purchase by a CEO may mean something very different from a sale by a director, 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 using details like transaction date, insider title, 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 trades in a specific stock or sector. It’s most useful when investors know what they’re looking for, whether that’s executive buying, activity at smaller companies, or insider selling trends over a defined period.
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 filter and compare insider trading activity using transaction-specific data such as insider title, buy or sell activity, share count, price per share, and transaction size. The tool is available to All Access users and supports sorting, saving, and CSV or Excel export for deeper analysis.
At the top of the page, you can begin with a specific stock ticker or screen more broadly by exchange, sector, or industry. From there, you can narrow the results using date range, insider name, insider title, buy or sell activity, number of shares, price per share, and total transaction size.
1. Choose the insider activity you want to screen
Start by deciding whether you want to review one company or a broader set of insider trades. If you already have a stock in mind, enter the ticker. If you want to look for patterns across the market, you can leave the ticker blank and screen by exchange, sector, or industry instead.
From there, use the available filters to focus on the type of insider activity you care about most, including:
- Insider name
- Insider title
- Buy or sell activity
- Number of shares
- Price per share
- Transaction size
This is where the screener becomes more useful than a simple trade feed. Instead of just seeing isolated filings, you can narrow the results to the kinds of insider moves that are most relevant to your strategy.
2. Set criteria, date range, and sorting
Once you know what type of activity you want to review, set your start and end dates to define the period you want to study. Then refine the screen using the transaction filters that matter most to you.
For example, you might:
- Look for insider buys instead of sells
- Focus on trades above a certain share count
- Screen for transactions above a certain dollar amount
- Narrow results to specific insider titles, such as CEO or CFO
You can also control how the results are sorted and how many rows are returned. Results can be ordered by fields such as company name, date, current price, insider name, insider title, number of shares, average share price, or transaction total, which makes it easier to compare activity from different angles.
3. Review, compare, and export results
The results table shows the companies that match your criteria along with key transaction details, including the date, insider title, buy or sell action, number of shares, price per share, transaction total, and any linked SEC filing.
This is where patterns start to stand out. You can compare transactions by size, timing, and insider role to decide whether the activity looks routine or more meaningful.
If you want to take the analysis further, you can export the results to CSV or Excel for offline review, watchlist building, or follow-up research alongside other MarketBeat tools.
