Insider trading tracker (India): how it works

An insider trading tracker for India surfaces the disclosures that company insiders must make when they trade their own company's securities. Under Regulation 7(2) of the SEBI (Prohibition of Insider Trading) Regulations, 2015, a promoter, promoter group member, designated person or director whose trades in a calendar quarter exceed ten lakh rupees must tell the company within two trading days. The company then has two trading days to notify the stock exchange. The regulations were last amended on 12 March 2025, and Regulation 7 was read on 14 October 2026. These are lawful, disclosed trades, not illegal dealing.

What does an insider trading tracker for India show?

The tracker reads the disclosures that companies pass to the exchange and presents them as trade records. Each one carries:

• Who traded: the promoter, promoter group member, designated person or director named in the disclosure.
• What they did: the number of securities acquired or disposed of, and the value.
• When: the transaction dates, and separately the date the company was told.
• The holding before and after: so a single trade can be read against the position it changed.

The transaction type is wider than buying and selling. Pledges, revocations and invocations are reported on the same continual disclosure format, Form C, and a pledge is a financing event rather than a sale. The columns are set out in what is SEBI PIT Form C, and the concept behind the filing in what an insider trading disclosure is.

Is this the same as illegal insider trading?

No, and the distinction matters. Illegal insider trading is dealing while in possession of unpublished price sensitive information, which the PIT Regulations prohibit. The disclosures a tracker shows are the opposite: lawful trades that insiders are required to report so the market can see them. A tracker only ever shows the public, filed record.

When must an insider disclose a trade?

SEBI sets a value threshold and two short deadlines.

Regulation 7(2)(a) covers every promoter, member of the promoter group, designated person and director. Disclosure is due when the value of securities traded, whether in one transaction or a series of transactions over any calendar quarter, aggregates to more than ten lakh rupees. The Explanation to Regulation 7(2)(b) then resets the count: the next disclosure falls due when trades made after the last one cross the threshold again.

The first disclosure on becoming an insider is a separate filing. Regulation 7(1)(b) requires a new director, key managerial person or promoter to disclose existing holdings to the company within seven days. See Form B vs Form C.

Why does an insider trade appear days after it happened?

Because the trade reaches the exchange in two steps of two trading days each, up to four trading days can separate the transaction from the public record. A tracker that sorts by the date a disclosure was published will show a Monday trade as Thursday or Friday news. Read the transaction date on the record, not the date it appeared in a feed.

That lag still makes insider disclosures far more timely than the quarterly shareholding pattern, which is due within 21 days of quarter-end. Flock's filing week page lists the insider trades, bulk deals and stake disclosures filed in the last seven days by the investors Flock tracks, each with its filing date and a link to the exchange record.

India versus the US

The idea is the same across markets, but the filing systems differ. In the US, insiders report on SEC Form 4 within two business days. A tracker covering both markets reads two systems and stamps each with its own source. For the wider Indian picture, see the smart money tracker for India.

An insider trading tracker for India reads these public disclosures and keeps each one dated and linked to its source. What any insider trade means for your own view is your call to make.