The Honest Comparison
They Sell Dashboards. We Send the Signal.
Most services in this space are good at collecting data. They show you every filing and every trade, and leave the judgment to you. InsiderWatch reads 19 live government and market feeds every minute, grades what matters, sends it to you in plain English, and posts the score afterward. Pro backs it with a dashboard of the data behind the alerts: a Congress tracker with politician profiles, hedge-fund stakes and quarterly books, and the live insider-buying ledger.
From $6 a month, against $25 to $50 for the dashboards.
| InsiderWatch | Paid dashboards | Free screeners | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Price | $6 a month for your watchlist, $15 for the whole market | $25 to $50 a month | Free |
| What you get | Graded alerts on both plans, plus the research dashboard on Pro | Data terminals: everything shown, you do the digging | Raw filing tables you check yourself |
| Alerts by Email and Telegram | Instant email and Telegram on every plan | Feeds and add-ons, mostly unfiltered | None |
| Every alert graded for direction and impact | Yes: bullish or bearish, with the reasoning | No: raw data, at most a score | No |
| Public track record, misses included | Yes: every alert scored against real prices | Backtests at best, never sent alerts | None |
Based on the public pricing and feature pages of the leading paid and free services in this category, reviewed July 2026. Think we’ve got the market wrong? Tell us and we’ll fix it.
The Gap
What You Only Get Here
A Quality Floor, Enforced in Code
Anything below our conviction bar never sends, no matter your settings. Quiet days stay quiet. Dashboards work the other way: they show everything and leave the judgment to you.
A Verified Ticker or No Alert at All
Every ticker is reconciled against the SEC’s official company records before an alert goes out. No match, no send. Pointing you at the wrong stock is the one mistake we refuse to make.
The Scorecard Nobody Else Will Show You
Once its window closes, every alert is graded against real market prices and published, wins and misses alike. Where performance numbers exist elsewhere in this category, they are backtests: hypothetical portfolios, not sent calls.
Activist Stakes and Big-Fund Moves
New 5%-plus activist positions the day they’re filed, with the investor’s stated intent quoted, plus quarterly position changes from about 20 named funds: Berkshire, Pershing Square, Elliott and the rest.
An Insider-Buy Gate That Runs Deterministically
Open-market purchases only, $50,000 minimum, cluster context across the whole company, and a first-buy-in-years check against the buyer’s own SEC filing history. Grants and scheduled plans never reach you.
Washington, Not Just Wall Street
Presidential posts, executive orders, FDA decisions, FTC and DOJ enforcement, Fed statements, Federal Register rules, and the Pentagon’s daily contract awards. Most services in this category track trades; policy moves stocks too.
Free Public Data Pages
Our congress trading tracker, per-stock pages, and insider buying feed are open to everyone, no account needed, alongside the paid alerts.
The Coverage
19 Live Sources, Checked Every Minute
The typical tracker covers congressional and insider trades. So do we, plus the government feeds that move stocks before the news catches up.
- PresidentialTruth Social posts, executive orders, trade and tariff actions, White House remarks and statements
- CongressHouse and Senate STOCK Act trades, lobbying disclosures
- SECInsider buys and sells, 8-Ks and IPOs, activist stakes, quarterly holdings of notable funds, SEC press releases
- Federal agenciesFDA approvals and advisory-committee briefing documents, FTC and DOJ enforcement, Federal Reserve statements, Federal Register rules
- DefenseThe Pentagon’s daily contract award announcements
- Markets & wiresBreaking market and business news, corporate newswire releases (M&A, FDA decisions, contracts, earnings), and a two-week earnings calendar layered into the analysis
Fair Questions
How is InsiderWatch different from insider trading trackers and dashboards?
Trackers and dashboards are data products: everything is shown and you do the digging. InsiderWatch leads with the alert: we scan 19 live sources every minute, throw most of it away, and send only the handful of events that clear a quality bar, each with a ticker, a direction, and the reasoning. Then we publish how every call turned out. Pro members get the dashboard side too: a Congress tracker with politician profiles, hedge-fund stakes and quarterly books, and the insider-buying ledger.
Why is InsiderWatch cheaper than the dashboards?
We don’t price like a terminal. $6 a month covers every signal type on the stocks you watch; $15 covers the whole market plus the research dashboard. Instant email and Telegram delivery come with either one. Both start with a 7-day free trial, and no discount-anchor games: the price on the page is the price.
Where do the comparison facts come from?
From the public pricing and feature pages of the leading paid and free services in this category, reviewed in July 2026. If you think something here misstates what the market offers, tell us and we will correct it.
Judge Us by the Record.
Every call we’ve made is public, scored, and one click away. Then try it free for 7 days.
InsiderWatch is an informational service based on publicly available information only. It is not financial, investment, legal, or tax advice.