For most of my career I have been obsessed with one question: why do a small handful of traders seem to win almost every time they take a position while everyone else spends years chasing the same “hot stocks” and barely breaks even?

I have seen every system under the sun—momentum scans, option flow, quant screens, sentiment models, algorithmic backtests, Fibonacci retracements—all of them have their moments. But none of them explain the single most consistent edge I have ever seen in my life.

It isn’t about technical indicators or complex models. It’s about following the people who already know what is coming next. I am talking about corporate insiders, the CEOs, CFOs, board members, and executives who know their companies inside and out. They see the sales numbers before we do. They know when a merger is brewing or a contract is about to hit. And when they quietly start buying shares in their own companies, they are sending one of the most powerful signals you will ever find in the market.

What I discovered years ago is that when you track those moves correctly—filtering out the noise, ignoring the fluff, and focusing only on the high-conviction buys—you can consistently spot stocks on the verge of major breakouts.

This isn’t theory. It’s math, pattern recognition, and human behavior combined. Once I started following it, everything about my trading changed.

I didn’t set out to build a system around insider activity. At the time I was frustrated by the same thing most traders deal with, the endless cycle of chasing momentum that evaporates overnight.

So I started asking a different question: who is actually winning right now? Not who used to be a legend, not who is famous on CNBC, but who is currently beating the market. I dug through millions of data points going back to 2003. My team spent months crunching more than 2.9 million insider transactions using raw data straight from the SEC’s Form 4 filings.

We rented a Bloomberg terminal that cost twenty-five thousand dollars a year. We used cloud processing to clean and validate the data. One of our programmers even came from the field of genetic sequencing and wrote thousands of lines of code to map the “DNA” of insider trades.

What we found shocked me. The traders consistently crushing the market were not hedge-fund billionaires or quant geniuses. They were regular executives—people who worked inside the companies they were trading.

They were not just making small gains either. They were putting up returns that made Wall Street’s elite look pedestrian. We’re talking about trades that turned ten thousand dollars into one hundred ninety thousand, fifty thousand into half a million, sometimes in a matter of months.

If you think about it, it makes perfect sense. Who understands a company’s true value better than the people running it? They know when sales are accelerating, when supply chains are tightening, when a new partnership is about to be announced, or when a regulatory approval is coming through. They don’t buy stock for fun or to make headlines. They buy because they know. And the beautiful part is that we can see it all.

Thanks to SEC regulations, insiders are required to report their trades within forty-eight hours. That means any time a CEO, CFO, or director buys shares, those filings go public almost immediately. So unlike following hedge funds, where you are months late reading their quarterly disclosures, with insiders you are seeing their moves in real time.

That single rule changed everything for me. By the time most investors hear a bullish story on television, insiders have already positioned themselves and are sitting on huge gains. Following them gives you a head start—a legal, public record of where the smartest money in the world is flowing before the crowd catches on.

I don’t make a move based on one insider trade. That is the mistake most people make when they first hear about this approach. A single director buying ten thousand dollars worth of stock might look exciting on paper, but it is meaningless in practice. What I look for are patterns of conviction—when multiple insiders buy at the same time, or when an insider who has never bought before suddenly loads up on shares. Those are the moments when the data lights up.

One example that still sticks with me was IONQ. The CFO and Executive chair each bought tens of thousands of shares in September of last year. They bought again in March of this year and then again in September of this year. Take a look at how well they timed every move of their companies stock!

Their first entries are up over 900%, their second entries are up over 200% and their third entries are up almost 100%.

I am not sure how much more accurate you could have timed that.

When these signals line up, it is almost uncanny. I’ve seen energy CEOs double down on their shares right before surprise merger announcements. Biotech insiders load up ahead of FDA approvals. Tech executives buy when Wall Street analysts are downgrading their stock. Every time, the same pattern repeats. The market doesn’t know it yet, but the people who do are quietly buying hand over fist. And when their trades become public, that’s the window of opportunity.

Let me be clear—I’m not talking about illegal insider trading. Corporate insiders have a specific exemption under SEC Rule 10b5-1, which allows them to buy and sell shares as long as they have a “pre-established plan.” The plan can be vague, flexible, even changed at will. It’s a ridiculous loophole, but it’s one hundred percent legal. All they have to do is report those transactions, and those reports are what I track.

Every day thousands of Form 4 filings hit the SEC database. They list the insider’s name, position, number of shares, and price. On their own those filings are almost useless—it’s an avalanche of data. But when you filter and analyze them properly, separating the noise from the signals, they become one of the most reliable forecasting tools in the market. That’s what my system does. It takes those raw filings, cleans the data, and highlights the trades that actually matter, the ones that historically lead to triple-digit gains.

Here’s how this works in practice. When an insider buys, I’m notified immediately. I check who it is, how big the purchase is relative to their salary, and whether it’s part of a pattern.

If it’s a perfect-track-record insider—someone who has made money every single time they’ve bought—that’s a strong signal. If there’s cluster buying, meaning multiple insiders are buying within a few days or weeks of each other, that’s even stronger. And if there’s a first-time buyer, someone who’s never purchased shares before but suddenly decides to put serious money on the line, that’s often the strongest of all.

When those three conditions overlap, it’s usually only a matter of time before the stock moves. I’ve seen it happen in everything from small biotech firms to massive retailers.

William Marshall, a founder and director for Planet Labs, timed the low almost perfectly in late 2023. He dropped over three million dollars of his own money into the stock and was up triple digits inside of five months and over 500% within two years.

Only weeks after his buy, Planet began reporting strong revenue growth, new government contracts, and expanding commercial demand for its satellite imaging and AI-driven analytics. By early 2024, the company announced a 15% year-over-year revenue increase and renewed a major deal with the National Reconnaissance Office.

News that sent shares soaring as investors recognized the company’s shift from promise to profitability. Marshall would have already known those results were coming, along with the government renewals and new platform launches that fueled the rally. Can you see how following insiders can be a huge advantage?

In another case, we got in on a uranium play when we saw six insiders loading up on UUUU all within a few days. This came after the stock had moved sideways for years, showing little life or momentum.

So what changed that convinced six people to go all in buying the stock for the company they work at?

The answer became clear a few months later. Energy Fuels had begun extracting exceptionally high-grade ore from its Pinyon Plain mine in Arizona, grades that were multiple times richer than typical U.S. uranium deposits.

At the same time, the company quietly raised its production guidance for 2025 to over a million pounds of uranium—an enormous jump that signaled it was shifting from a developer to a serious domestic producer. Insiders would have seen the drilling data, the production ramp-up, and the incoming government support for U.S.-based uranium supply well before the market did.

When those details became public in July 2025, the stock went parabolic, kicking off one of the biggest runs in the company’s history. But by that time it was to late. If you were not following the insiders you would have never known. Insider saw a 480% increase in their stock value in less than 6 months and you could have traded right along side them.

There’s a saying I use often: information is the most valuable commodity on Wall Street. Everything else is just noise. Most investors trade based on narratives and emotions. Insiders trade based on knowledge. They don’t care what the headlines say or what the Fed is doing next month. They know exactly how their business is performing. Because of that, their money flows tell a story no analyst report can replicate.

Even academic studies from places like Harvard and Wharton have confirmed that tracking insider activity delivers exceptional returns. One Harvard study found that…

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That isn’t a trading theory. That’s hard data.

If you’ve been in the market long enough, you know how rare it is for something to actually beat the index over the long term, let alone crush it by double digits every year.

Of course, knowing what insiders are doing isn’t enough. You still have to know how to trade those signals. That’s where experience comes in. I’ve spent years refining my process, studying how these trades behave, how long they take to play out, and how to manage them for maximum upside.

Some insider trades move within days, others take months. I structure each one differently, often pairing the stock with a low-cost call option when the setup allows it. That way I can capture large percentage gains without tying up too much capital.

Most of the time these positions are straightforward, simple stock buys that line up with my core thesis. Other times, when I want to amplify the move, I’ll use options to leverage it.

On average, I send out three to five insider lead stocks per month when I find setups that meet all my criteria. That up to five opportunities each month to piggy back the best traders in the world.

Each one includes a full breakdown of the insider activity, why I believe the trade is worth taking, and exactly how I’m structuring it. It’s not about constant noise or a flood of trades. It’s about precision. If a setup doesn’t meet my standards, I don’t touch it.

The reason I’m sharing this approach today is because it remains one of the most consistently reliable ways to identify where strength is building beneath the surface of the market.

Whether we’re in a bull run or a correction, insiders always leave clues. Even in tough markets, there are always companies quietly outperforming, securing new contracts, or developing products that will drive their next phase of growth and the people running those companies know it first.

Insider buying doesn’t depend on headlines or sentiment. It cuts through all of that. These trades reveal which businesses are thriving in the background while everyone else is focused on the index. That’s why I follow them so closely. It’s not about chasing the market’s mood, it’s about following the few people who actually know what’s coming next.

If you’ve been reading my work for a while, you know I trade across multiple frameworks—momentum setups, volatility cycles, rotation models, and asymmetric option plays. But this insider tracking approach is different. It’s not about predicting what will happen next. It’s about following the people who already know.

Every time I uncover a new cluster of insider trades that meet my criteria, I share it with my premium community. That’s where I send out my detailed alerts—usually three to five per month with the full breakdown of what I’m seeing, who’s buying, and how I’m playing it.

These are the same kinds of setups that have historically delivered returns of 200 percent, 500 percent, even 1,000 percent or more. Not every trade will hit those numbers, but the pattern of consistency is what matters. When insiders put real money on the line and the data aligns, it’s one of the purest edges you’ll ever find.

Most people never get to see what’s really happening behind the scenes. They watch the news, read analyst notes, and try to make sense of a market that feels unpredictable.

But the truth is, it’s not random. The market leaves clues, and the people who know the most are the insiders and they leave a trail of evidence every time they buy or sell. When you learn to read that trail, you stop reacting to headlines and start anticipating them.

That’s what this strategy is all about. It’s one of the key approaches I use to find high-return opportunities, the kind that can transform a small portfolio into something meaningful over time.

As part of my paid community, whenever I uncover a setup that meets these insider criteria, I’ll share it with you directly. No hype. No guesswork. Just actionable, data-backed trades rooted in the most reliable signal in the market, what the people closest to the money are actually doing.

Because when insiders are buying big, it’s rarely a coincidence. It’s usually the start of something much bigger.

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