Insider & Institutional Flow
Follow insider and institutional ownership
What it is
Position around insider transactions and institutional ownership flows — concentrated insider buying as a long signal, cluster insider selling (excluding 10b5-1 plans) as a short / warning signal, and 13F-tracked institutional accumulation across quarters.
When it works
Multiple insiders buying on the open market above a meaningful $ threshold (officers and directors, not just one); 13F filings showing rising institutional ownership over consecutive quarters; for shorts, cluster insider selling at valuation extremes with no 10b5-1 exclusion.
Why the setup pays
Price Action = Binary / Grind — the signal is the transaction itself, not the price pattern. Position horizon: insider buys and institutional accumulation typically take quarters to play out, not weeks.
The market it wants
Any regime. Works in any regime. Insider buying in Contraction (after a stock has fallen) historically marks high-quality bottoms; cluster selling at tops is a Slowdown / late-Expansion signal.
What goes wrong
Insider buying is sometimes a false signal (officers buy on the way down); 10b5-1 plans can mask 'real' selling intent; 13F ownership data lags reality by 45 days.
Where it sits in the book
Insider & Institutional Flow belongs to Microstructure & Flow Dynamics, the group whose edge comes from order-flow imbalance / dealer-hedging vectors. That group looks for rapid reflexive squeezes or institutional-driven breakouts, and its risk profile is tactical / reflexive momentum (high velocity).
Run this on the live market
This is the thesis the engine scans with. It reads the whole universe, scores what matches, and prices the structures against fair value.
names with clustered open-market insider buying in the last 30 days and rising 13F ownership, plus cluster-insider-selling shorts at valuation extremes
No account needed to run it. The free trial runs on the same live data a paid account gets.
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