Insider Latest API: List the newest Form 4 insider events market-wide with buy/sell USD — SEC Form 4
List the newest Form 4 insider events market-wide with buy/sell USD, flags and links — free, up to 100 rows, no filters. Use to sample the live tape; the paid screen adds code, role, size and direction filters.
Free — no key, no signup, rate-limited to 60 calls per minute per client.
How do you call it?
GET /v1/sec/insider/latest — product id
sec_insider_latest. Over MCP, call answerpool_get with
product_id=sec_insider_latest.
curl "https://answerpool.io/v1/sec/insider/latest?limit=25"Live call: https://answerpool.io/v1/sec/insider/latest?limit=25 · JSON sample: /v1/samples/sec_insider_latest
What does the answer look like?
A representative response, the same static sample served at /v1/samples/sec_insider_latest.
as_of | 2026-08-31T14:00:00Z |
|---|---|
index_started_at | 2026-08-27T00:00:00Z |
since | 2026-08-24T00:00:00 |
count | 1 |
refresh_after | 2026-09-17T11:15:00.000Z |
events
| event_id | accession | cik | ticker | company | form | event_type | occurred_at | flags | score | payload.buy_usd | payload.sell_usd |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ev_1 | 0001214659-26-011100 | 0000096223 | JEF | JEFFERIES FINANCIAL GROUP INC. | 4 | insider_transaction | 2026-08-28T21:53:58 | large_insider_buy | 0.7 | 1500000.0 | 0.0 |
The same sample as raw JSON
{
"as_of": "2026-08-31T14:00:00Z",
"index_started_at": "2026-08-27T00:00:00Z",
"since": "2026-08-24T00:00:00",
"count": 1,
"events": [
{
"event_id": "ev_1",
"accession": "0001214659-26-011100",
"cik": "0000096223",
"ticker": "JEF",
"company": "JEFFERIES FINANCIAL GROUP INC.",
"form": "4",
"event_type": "insider_transaction",
"occurred_at": "2026-08-28T21:53:58",
"flags": [
"large_insider_buy"
],
"score": 0.7,
"payload": {
"buy_usd": 1500000.0,
"sell_usd": 0.0,
"n_buys": 1,
"n_sells": 0
},
"filing_url": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/96223/000121465926011100-index.htm"
}
],
"refresh_after": "2026-09-17T11:15:00.000Z"
}How fresh is it, and where does the data come from?
The fastest source behind this answer can change every 15 minutes, so every response carries a refresh_after timestamp — right now it would be 2026-09-17T11:15:00.000Z. Schedule the next call on that value rather than on a guess.
- SEC EDGAR (US federal public domain) — upstream:
https://efts.sec.gov
Method version 0.1.0 ·
serving cache 1 day ·
every response carries a result_id you can resolve at
/v1/provenance.
When should you use it?
Sampling the tape or bootstrapping a cursor for the watch endpoint.
What you skip building
- EDGAR Atom polling and parsing
When should you not use it?
Filtered or per-issuer questions — use screen/transactions/summary.
Where else can you find this?
- Catalog entry (JSON, free)
- OpenAPI schema — input and output types, prices, the 402 flow
- llms.txt — every product in one plain-text document