EDGAR insider trades (Form 4)

Recent Form 4 insider transactions filed against a company (officer, director, or 10% holder trades). Send GET /api/edgar-insider-trades with no required fields (4 optional) and pay $0.005 per call over x402 or MPP (there is no free tier). It returns a JSON object with cik, name, windowDays, total, returned and 1 more.

Backed by EDGAR's full-text search (efts.sec.gov) filtered by subject-company CIK - Form 4 is owned by each insider's CIK, not the company's, so this is the only single-call path. ?ticker=AAPL&days=30

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Parameters

Example request

curl -i "https://agent402.tools/api/edgar-insider-trades?ticker=AAPL&days=30"

Without payment this returns HTTP 402 Payment Required with the exact price for edgar-insider-trades; any x402 v2 or MPP client pays it and retries.

Example response

{
  "cik": "0000320193",
  "name": "Apple Inc.",
  "windowDays": 30,
  "total": 8,
  "returned": 8,
  "trades": [
    {
      "accessionNumber": "0001127602-25-009999",
      "form": "4",
      "filedDate": "2025-11-04",
      "cik": "0001214128",
      "displayNames": [
        "COOK TIMOTHY D (CIK 0001214128)"
      ],
      "url": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1214128/000112760225009999/xslF345X05/wf-form4.xml",
      "primaryDocument": "xslF345X05/wf-form4.xml"
    }
  ]
}

From an MCP client

catalog.call {
  "slug": "edgar-insider-trades",
  "params": {
    "ticker": "AAPL",
    "days": 30
  }
}

The hosted connector at https://agent402.tools/mcp needs a payment for edgar-insider-trades; the stdio package pays it from a wallet or from AGENT402_CREDITS_KEY. Local install: npx -y agent402-mcp.

Errors and behavior

• Every field is optional. An input the tool rejects returns an HTTP 4xx whose body carries error, tool, expected, required and example.
• A paid call that ends in any status of 400 or above is not charged over x402, MPP or a prepaid credits key: settlement is cancelled when the tool fails. The exception is a Tempo push credential, a transfer the buyer sent before the call: it settles before the tool runs, so if the tool then fails the payment is recorded as a refund owed to the paying wallet.
• Wallet-only: this tool reaches the network or stored state, so it has no proof-of-work tier. A prepaid card-credits key issued earlier (Authorization: Bearer a402_...) also pays it.
• A POST with a JSON body to /api/edgar-insider-trades is served as this GET, with the body as the input.
• An Idempotency-Key header makes a retried paid call replay the first 200 instead of charging again (an answer larger than 1 MB is not replayed).

Paid call (JavaScript agent)

import { wrapFetchWithPayment } from "@x402/fetch";
import { x402Client } from "@x402/core/client";
import { registerExactEvmScheme } from "@x402/evm/exact/client";
import { privateKeyToAccount } from "viem/accounts";

const client = new x402Client();
client.setSpendControls?.(false); // keep your own spending ceiling in code
registerExactEvmScheme(client, { signer: privateKeyToAccount(KEY) });
const payFetch = wrapFetchWithPayment(fetch, client);

const res = await payFetch("https://agent402.tools/api/edgar-insider-trades?ticker=AAPL&days=30");

Part of these workflows

EDGAR insider trades (Form 4) is one step in these 5 skill packs, each sold as a single call:

• Financial research - Pull SEC filings, the latest close, historical prices, and macro context for a single ticker in one pass.
• SEC filings deep-dive - Pull the full EDGAR picture of a US public company in one workflow: recent filings, key financial time series, insider trades, and full-text search across the corpus.
• SEC regulatory monitoring - The 'who just filed / who just bought / what just IPO'd / what does the full-text search say' monitoring loop. Five EDGAR tools composed: full-text search for a keyword, surface recent filings on the matched companies, pull insider Form 4 transactions, pull 13F institutional holdings changes, and check the IPO calendar. Different from sec-filings-deep-dive (which goes deep on one company's earnings) - this is the wide-and-recent radar.
• Company dossier - Comprehensive company research report in one call: latest close, financials, SEC filings, insider trades, and recent news - all in parallel.
• Insider alert - Insider buying/selling activity for a stock: Form 4 trades, the latest close, and recent SEC filings in one call.

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