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Strategy #0000000131 · Event-driven and special situations

Publicly reported insider-trading signals
Enter filed purchases, market cap, cluster size, non-routine flag, stock/benchmark returns and costs.

Legally reported insider transactions may reflect managers’ views, but routine compensation, option exercises, tax sales and prearranged plans carry different information. Clustered, non-routine purchases are often treated as more informative. This tool evaluates a user-entered summary of public filings and subsequent returns; it does not use non-public information.

Beginner-friendlyAbout 8 minutesEvidence and practical analysis

Three ways in

Understand the story. Then inspect the risk.

Start with a familiar situation, check the payoff, then test how the numbers change.

The idea · in two minutes

Does publicly reported, non-routine clustered buying pass the filter, and what is the entered excess-return scenario?

Legally reported insider transactions may reflect managers’ views, but routine compensation, option exercises, tax sales and prearranged plans carry different information. Clustered, non-routine purchases are often treated as more informative. This tool evaluates a user-entered summary of public filings and subsequent returns; it does not use non-public information.

Enter filed purchases, market cap, cluster size, non-routine flag, stock/benchmark returns and costs.

Use only legally public filings; reporting delays, trading plans, options and survivorship are not adjusted.

  • Input assumptionsEnter filed purchases, market cap, cluster size, non-routine flag, stock/benchmark returns and costs.
  • Model outputUse only legally public filings; reporting delays, trading plans, options and survivorship are not adjusted.

Illustrative research examples only. They are not live signals or a recommendation.

Variants · same family, different risk levers

Models, contract terms and implementation can change results.

Compare relevant mechanisms and execution assumptions.

Related strategyRelationshipWhat changesNew cost or risk
Base scenarioManual inputsLegally reported insider transactions may reflect managers’ views, but routine compensation, option exercises, tax sales and prearranged plans carry different information. Clustered, non-routine purchases are often treated as more informative. This tool evaluates a user-entered summary of public filings and subsequent returns; it does not use non-public information.Use only legally public filings; reporting delays, trading plans, options and survivorship are not adjusted.
Conservative versionHigher cost/lossStress higher costs, larger losses or lower liquidity.May lower scenario returns.
Validation versionData reviewTest model inputs with consistent contracts and timestamps.Needs licensed, representative data.

Use only legally public filings; reporting delays, trading plans, options and survivorship are not adjusted.

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References

Primary sources and research used to describe the strategy and its limits.

  1. 01Lakonishok & Lee (2001), Are Insider Trades Informative?research