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title: act
description: OpenBBTerminal offers user-friendly, Python-based tools to gauge insider
  activity data for a given stock ticker from Business Insider. The available functions
  not only assemble the raw data but also provide you with an elaborate chart outlining
  past insider activities.
keywords:
- OpenBB Finance
- Stock Insider Activity
- Business Insider
- Financial Data
- Stock Market
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Get insider activity. [Source: Business Insider]

Source Code: [[link](https://github.com/OpenBB-finance/OpenBBTerminal/tree/main/openbb_terminal/stocks/insider/businessinsider_model.py#L17)]

```python
openbb.stocks.ins.act(symbol: str)
```

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## Parameters

| Name | Type | Description | Default | Optional |
| ---- | ---- | ----------- | ------- | -------- |
| symbol | str | Ticker symbol to get insider activity data from | None | False |


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## Returns

| Type | Description |
| ---- | ----------- |
| pd.DataFrame | Insider activity data |
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Display insider activity. [Source: Business Insider]

Source Code: [[link](https://github.com/OpenBB-finance/OpenBBTerminal/tree/main/openbb_terminal/stocks/insider/businessinsider_view.py#L32)]

```python
openbb.stocks.ins.act_chart(data: pd.DataFrame, symbol: str, start_date: Optional[str] = None, interval: str = "1440min", limit: int = 10, raw: bool = False, export: str = "", external_axes: Optional[List[matplotlib.axes._axes.Axes]] = None)
```

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## Parameters

| Name | Type | Description | Default | Optional |
| ---- | ---- | ----------- | ------- | -------- |
| data | pd.DataFrame | Stock dataframe | None | False |
| symbol | str | Due diligence ticker symbol | None | False |
| start_date | Optional[str] | Initial date (e.g., 2021-10-01). Defaults to 3 years back | None | True |
| interval | str | Stock data interval | 1440min | True |
| limit | int | Number of latest days of inside activity | 10 | True |
| raw | bool | Print to console | False | True |
| export | str | Export dataframe data to csv,json,xlsx file |  | True |
| external_axes | Optional[List[plt.Axes]] | External axes (1 axis is expected in the list), by default None | None | True |


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## Returns

This function does not return anything

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