Reported insider open-market sales by size, trailing year
Answered against 22 years of US equities and 12 years of US options data and published with the query that produced it. This result is stored as of 2026-08-22, from Rule 144 and Selling Restricted Stock.
| sale_size_bucket | reported_sales |
|---|---|
| under $50k | 80225 |
| $50k to $250k | 89673 |
| $250k to $1m | 83137 |
| $1m to $5m | 59105 |
| $5m or more | 31933 |
- Rows × columns
- 5 × 2
- Computed
- Completeness
- No missing values
- Source
- US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data
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What each column holds
| Column | Type | Range | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
sale_size_bucket |
text | 5 distinct values ($1m to $5m, $250k to $1m, $50k to $250k…) | |
reported_sales |
number | 31,933 to 89,673 |
Computed from Strasmore's warehouse of US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data. Equity prices are delayed; options greeks and implied volatility are end-of-day. This result is stored, not recomputed on load — it is exactly the numbers that were returned on , and the query below is what returned them.
the exact SQL behind every number
SELECT
multiIf(
sale_value < 50000, 'under $50k',
sale_value < 250000, '$50k to $250k',
sale_value < 1000000, '$250k to $1m',
sale_value < 5000000, '$1m to $5m',
'$5m or more') AS sale_size_bucket,
count() AS reported_sales
FROM
(
SELECT
if(toFloat64(transaction_value) > 0,
toFloat64(transaction_value),
toFloat64(transaction_shares) * toFloat64(transaction_price_per_share)) AS sale_value
FROM global_markets.stocks_form4
WHERE transaction_code = 'S'
AND transaction_date >= today() - 365
AND transaction_date <= today()
AND transaction_shares > 0
AND transaction_price_per_share > 0
)
WHERE sale_value > 0
GROUP BY sale_size_bucket
ORDER BY min(sale_value)
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