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Form 4: insider trading (the legal kind)

When an executive or major shareholder buys or sells shares of their own company, they must report it to the SEC within two days via a Form 4. It's legal, public insider trading.

An insider buy is often more meaningful than a sell: people sell for many reasons, but someone who buys with their own money usually believes the stock will rise.