Where the data comes from.

Where the data comes from

Every row in the Blue Collar Picks feed traces back to a public SEC EDGAR filing. Officers, directors, and 10 percent beneficial owners are required to file Form 4 within two business days of a transaction in their company’s stock. We poll the SEC, ingest those filings, and serve them in a feed you can scan in seconds.

The pipeline is one-way. We read public filings. We do not host private order flow, broker data, or anything that is not already on EDGAR.

What we normalize

The raw Form 4 XML is verbose. We translate it into the columns most readers actually want to see:

• Identity: ticker symbol plus the insider’s name, joined into a single column.
• Type and role: Buy or Sell, paired with a clean role label (CEO, CFO, COO, Director, President, EVP, Officer, 10% Owner).
• Value: shares multiplied by reported price.
• Filed: a relative time label backed by the exact filing timestamp on hover.

The drawer keeps the underlying numbers without translation: trade date, filed date, price per share, share count, ownership type, and the original SEC filing link.

We do not change reported values. We only group and label them.

What we filter into views

The feed has several views. Each one is the same Form 4 firehose with a different filter:

• All Trades: every Qualified Buy or Sale.
• Purchases: open-market P buys only.
• Sales: open-market S sales only.
• Cluster Buys: companies where more than one insider has bought in the same short window.
• Big Buys: open-market purchases above a value threshold.
• Full Form 4 Ledger: every Form 4 row including grants, exercises, withholdings, and dispositions.

The first five views skip lower-signal rows. The Full Form 4 Ledger preserves them for audits.

Lower-signal rows we de-emphasize

Many Form 4 transactions are mechanical rather than directional:

• A, grant or award. Compensation, not a buying decision.
• F, shares withheld for taxes. Triggered by vesting.
• D, disposition to the issuer. Usually part of a buyback.
• M / X, exercises and conversions. Mechanical, often pre-scheduled.

Those rows still belong in the public record, so the Full Form 4 Ledger keeps them visible. They are skipped from the higher-signal views because mixing them in makes the feed harder to read for the rows that matter.

The SEC filing is the source of truth

Every drawer carries a View SEC Form 4 filing button that opens the original document on EDGAR. If a normalized field looks unclear, or if you are about to act on a row, follow the link. The Blue Collar Picks row is a faster way to read the document. It is not a replacement for it.

If anything on the site disagrees with the underlying filing, the underlying filing wins.

Not investment advice

Blue Collar Picks is a research tool, not a registered investment adviser or broker-dealer. The feed and the lessons describe how filings work and how the views are filtered. They are not recommendations. Trading and investing involve risk of loss. Read the Trade Disclosure Policy and Disclaimer before relying on any of this for investment research.