Events

Insider transactions

Officer and director trades (Form 4 activity) as events on the unified timeline — kind=insider on GET /v2/events. Who traded, what they hold, how many shares, at what price — cross-ticker and SQL-filterable.

Payload

One event per executive × date × security type.

fieldmeaning
executiveFiler's name
titleTheir role (CEO, CFO, Director, …)
security_typeWhat was traded (common stock, options, …)
actionA = acquisition, D = disposal
sharesShare count
pricePrice per share (0 for grants/awards)
valueshares × price, rounded to cents

Recipes

Cast payload numerics to filter on size.

# Recent insider activity in NVDA
curl "https://api.tickerbot.io/v2/events?kind=insider&ticker=NVDA" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_KEY"

# Open-market sales over $1M across the top 100, this month
curl -G "https://api.tickerbot.io/v2/events" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_KEY" \
  --data-urlencode "kind=insider" \
  --data-urlencode "universe=top_100" \
  --data-urlencode "since=2026-07-01" \
  --data-urlencode "q=payload->>'action'='D' AND (payload->>'value')::numeric > 1000000"

# Who's buying the most? (aggregate mode)
curl -G "https://api.tickerbot.io/v2/events" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_KEY" \
  --data-urlencode "kind=insider" \
  --data-urlencode "since=2026-07-01" \
  --data-urlencode "q=payload->>'action'='A'" \
  --data-urlencode "group_by=ticker" \
  --data-urlencode "select=ticker, SUM((payload->>'value')::numeric) AS bought"

Latency: filings land with the evening ET ingestion pipeline (daily). Push instead of poll: POST /v2/events/subscribe with kinds=insider.