Check insider trades before you buy a stock

Here's how to research a stock with ChatGPT or Claude before you buy: insider trades and unusual options activity for any ticker, just the evidence, not a tip.

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   @Firecrawl Should I buy Nvidia right now? Use Alexandria to check what insiders and options traders have been doing with it.

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   Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5) sent back, word for word:

   I can't tell you whether to buy, because that depends on your timeframe, what else you own and how much risk you can take. Neither data set gives a clear signal on its own. Insiders are steady sellers, which is normal for Nvidia, and options traders are split roughly evenly.

   Insiders (Fiscal.ai Form 4 data, Oct 2025 to Oct 20, 2026)

   • No insider bought shares on the open market in 12 months. Every share insiders received came from stock grants.
   • Director Mark Stevens is the big seller. He sold about $947M between Aug 31 and Sep 18 at roughly $220–234, after about $186M in June. He still holds about 27.5M shares.
   • Executives sold small amounts. CFO Colette Kress sold about $7.6M and General Counsel Tim Teter sold about $13M in Aug–Sep. Most of their other "disposals" were shares withheld for taxes when stock grants vested, which aren't market sales.
   • Jensen Huang made no market sales in 2026. He has only gifted shares and had shares withheld for taxes. His last market sales were in October 2025, about $14M a day. He holds about 1.61B shares.
   • Director Tench Coxe has gifted 500k shares a month. Gifts aren't a view on the price.

   Selling by Nvidia insiders is routine, since most of their pay comes in stock. Stevens's selling stands out for its size, but it's from one director, and the data doesn't say whether it was a pre-scheduled trading plan. No insider buying means insiders aren't signalling the stock is cheap. It doesn't mean they think it's overpriced.

   Options traders (Benzinga unusual options activity)

   Day	Unusual orders	Bullish	Bearish
   Oct 14 (partial day)	78	30	34
   Oct 15	410	183	181
   Oct 16	238	108	95
   Oct 19	272	128	105
   Oct 20 (to 3:17pm)	200	88	61

   • The tilt is slightly bullish and has grown in the last two sessions. Today, bullish call sweeps traded about 888k contracts, against about 356k for bearish call sweeps.
   • Long-dated contracts (expiring Dec 2026 or later) lean bullish too: 161 bullish orders against 117 bearish. Many of the bullish ones are put sales, meaning traders are paid to agree to buy the stock lower down.
   • Oct 15 was a busy day with an even split, which looks like hedging or positioning around a catalyst rather than a one-way bet.

   Limits of this data: Benzinga left out the dollar size, fill price and stock price fields at this access level, so I could only count orders and contract volume, not money. Volume is the contract's total for the day, not the order's size. The pull also hit its 1,000-record cap, so Oct 14 is incomplete and Oct 5–13 is missing. I also didn't check the current share price, valuation, earnings date or news, which matter more for a buy decision than either signal here.

   My read

   Nothing here argues strongly for or against buying. Options traders are mildly optimistic, and insiders are selling as they usually do, with one director selling heavily. If you're thinking long term, these signals matter less than whether you're comfortable with Nvidia's valuation and how big a position you'd hold. If you're thinking short term, the next earnings report (likely late November) is the bigger risk.

   I can also pull valuation, analyst estimates, the earnings date or recent news if that would help.

   Sources usedFiscal.aiBenzingaOct 20, 2026