Tracking insider conviction

When the people who run a company buy its stock with their own money, it's worth a look. One officer topping up is a data point. Several insiders buying the same name in a short window is conviction. Here's how to spot it and act on it in SecBot.

1. Read the Insider feed

Open the Insider feed. Each card shows who traded, how much, and at what price, with an impact score that weights size and surprise. Open-market buys carry more signal than option exercises or scheduled sales, so let the impact score and sentiment guide where you spend time.

Push the Impact slider up during a busy session to keep only the buys that matter, then drop it back when you want the full picture.

2. Watch for clusters

A single buy is easy to dismiss. A cluster is harder to ignore. The Insider Cluster signal surfaces names where multiple insiders bought in the same short window, which is the pattern that tends to precede a move more often than any lone purchase.

Sort by the most recent clusters and note the names that keep appearing. These are your candidates.

3. Set Insider Trades alerts

You don't want to refresh a feed all day. Add the candidate tickers to your Watchlist and put them in a group. Then create an alert rule on that group with Insider Trades, narrowed under Specific events to Buy (open market). Now the next open-market buy on a name you're tracking comes to you. The Insider buying template sets this up in one click.

Routine paperwork, such as option exercises, stock awards and tax withholding, never alerts, so you won't be pinged for those.

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Add a second rule on the same group with Trading Signals narrowed to Insider cluster. Single buys tell you something; a cluster forming on a name you're watching is the one that should cut through everything else.

4. Confirm on the ticker page

An alert is a prompt, not a trade. Before you act, open the company's page and read the buy in context: the size relative to the insider's existing stake, where it sits against the chart, and what else is happening on the name. A cluster that lines up with a washed-out price and a clean catalyst calendar is a very different setup from one buy into a falling knife.

Cross-check against the Institutional feed too. Insiders and large holders accumulating the same name at the same time is the strongest version of this signal.

That's the loop: feed for discovery, clusters for conviction, alerts to stay hands-off, and the ticker page to confirm before you size in.

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