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SEC Notifier is an analytics terminal for U.S. insider trading. It reads the ownership filings that company insiders submit to the SEC — Forms 3, 4, 5, and 144 — and turns them into something you can actually explore: who is buying and selling, in what role, when, and where it clusters across companies and people.

Using the terminal

It opens on the Daily Brief — the latest filing day distilled into net flow, top buys and sells, same-day clusters, new insiders, and proposed sales. From there: Flows surfaces cluster signals (several insiders trading the same way) and net insider flow per company, Insiders ranks the most active filers, Graph maps who trades what, Filings is the raw feed, and Form 144 lists proposed sales. Sign in to keep a Watchlist and get email alerts. Every company and insider opens a drill-down with its price chart, buy/sell markers, roles, and transactions.

Search and keyboard

Press Ctrl/⌘ K to open the Terminal and search any insider or company by name. Navigation is keyboard-first: press g then d, f, i, g, l, s, or w to jump between views (hold g to see the keys), j / k moves the selected row, Enter drills in, t toggles the theme, and ? lists every shortcut.

Reading the price chart

On a company page, green ▲ marks where insiders bought and red ▼ where they sold, plotted on the stock’s price line — hover a marker for the filing details. It is the fastest way to see whether insiders were trading into strength or weakness.

Guides

Daily Brief
What the Daily Brief shows — net flow, top buys and sells, same-day clusters, new insiders, and proposed sales for a single filing day — and how to step through days.
Form 4
What an SEC Form 4 is, who must file one, the two-business-day deadline, and how to read insider buys and sells.
Form 3
What an SEC Form 3 is, who files it, the 10-day deadline, and how it establishes an insider’s baseline holdings.
Form 5
What an SEC Form 5 is, the 45-day annual deadline, and which transactions it sweeps up.
Form 144
What an SEC Form 144 is, who files it under Rule 144, the thresholds, and how it signals intent to sell.
Transaction codes
A reference table of the SEC Form 4 / Form 5 transaction codes (P, S, A, M, F, G, X, C, D, W, J and more) and what each means.
Reading the signals
How to interpret cluster buying and selling, net insider flow, the insider leaderboard, and Rule 10b5-1 planned trades.
Network graph
How to interpret SEC Notifier’s bipartite insider–company graph, what the shapes, sizes, and edge colors mean, and how to use the mode, threshold, and time-window controls.
Watchlist & alerts
How to follow companies and insiders, view your watchlist, and get email alerts on new filings — instant, a daily digest, or off.
Glossary
Plain-English definitions of Section 16, CIK, accession number, issuer, reporting owner, 10b5-1, and more.
FAQ
Common questions about SEC Notifier — what it covers, how fresh the data is, what the signals mean, how watchlist alerts work, and what it is not.