Outfox Academy

Understand the market without leaving the conversation.

Clear explanations, real filing examples, important limitations, and direct links to official sources. Start with the short answer, then go as deep as you need.

Filings

What is an SEC Form 4?

A plain-language guide to the SEC filing that reports many transactions by company directors, officers, and large shareholders.

Filings

What is an SEC Form 13F?

How quarterly institutional holdings reports work, what changes between filings can reveal, and why a 13F is not a real-time trade feed.

Filings

What is a congressional Periodic Transaction Report?

What congressional transaction disclosures contain, why amounts appear as ranges, and why they are delayed public records rather than live trade alerts.

People

What is a corporate insider?

Who is treated as a company insider for ownership reporting, and why insider activity requires context before it becomes useful evidence.

Market basics

Transaction date versus filing date

Why the date an investment transaction occurred differs from the date the public learned about it—and why that delay changes the meaning of a signal.