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# Smart Insider

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[Smart Insider](https://www.smartinsider.com/) was founded by Michael Tindale in 2016 with the goal of forming the most progressive insider data vendor in the field. Smart Insider provides access to buyback intention and transactions for quantitative researchers. In addition to their Corporate Buybacks dataset, Smart Insider provides data on stock trades made by US politicians and thousands of high net worth individuals around the globe.

- [Corporate Buybacks](https://www.quantconnect.com/docs/v2/writing-algorithms/datasets/smart-insider/corporate-buybacks.md)

## Pages in This Section

- [Corporate Buybacks](https://www.quantconnect.com/docs/v2/writing-algorithms/datasets/smart-insider/corporate-buybacks.md): Corporate Buybacks dataset from Smart Insider.