Why Blue Collar Picks exists
Public insider filings are useful, but they are often hard to scan. Raw SEC pages are built for disclosure, not for fast retail research. Existing screeners can be powerful, but many feel cluttered on mobile or bury the clearest patterns behind dense tables.
Blue Collar Picks exists to make that public record easier to use. The product starts with SEC Form 4 data, organizes it into clean views, and explains the filing context in plain English. The goal is to help self-directed investors move from a messy filing stream to a short list of rows worth verifying.
Who is behind it
Blue Collar Picks is built by Blake Mitchell, a self-directed trader who has been actively trading his own money since 2015 across day trades, longer holds, and options. Based in Vancouver, BC, Blake previously built Ventenova, a tool that aggregates open data on private companies to help retail investors evaluate startups. Same thesis as Blue Collar Picks: take investor grade data that has historically been priced for institutions, and make it usable by self directed traders.
He started Blue Collar Picks after years of relying on OpenInsider, a free SEC Form 4 aggregator that had not been meaningfully updated in roughly six years and was never built for how working traders actually read a filing. The goal here is not to recreate an institutional terminal. It is to make public insider activity easy to scan, easy to verify, and easy to interpret without a finance background.
For a side-by-side breakdown, see Blue Collar Picks vs OpenInsider or the broader list of OpenInsider alternatives.
You can reach Blake on LinkedIn or through the contact page.
The name is intentional. Blue Collar Picks is built for the 99 percent of investors who need clear public data, practical explanations, and a workflow that respects their time.
What the product does
The public feed organizes insider buying, selling, cluster buys, large transactions, officer buys, director buys, and other Form 4 activity. The education pages explain what the filings mean. The methodology page documents the filters behind the views.
The free weekly recap is for people who want the best parts summarized. The paid daily brief is for people who want qualified insider activity delivered every market morning.
Conflicts and accountability
Blue Collar Picks is not a registered investment adviser or broker-dealer. The product provides public filing data and research context for informational purposes only. It does not provide personalized investment advice.
Operators, contributors, contractors, or related parties may hold positions in securities displayed on the site or discussed in related materials. Those positions may change without notice. Users should always verify source filings, read the disclosure pages, and make independent decisions.