Month: June 2022

Insider Buying Week 6-24-22 The Market Comes Roaring Back as Powell gets a Mouthful

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  Curious how well insiders are doing with their buys? Scroll through the significant buys of the last year. The Fed has been bullied into raising interest rates into a weakening economy. Raising interest rates to bring down the price of oil or to untangle the supply chain disruptions is an act of lunacy.  The market is telling us that. Last week a bunch of senators and representatives gave the Fed Chairman a mouthful of that for the first time.   Now many congressional members are telling the Fed Chairman Powel that bleeding the patient to cure the disease is obsolete. … Read more

‘s 5% Decline

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  Curious how well insiders are doing with their buys? Scroll through the significant buys of the last year. The S&P 500 lost over 6% points last week after losing 5% in the previous week. Stocks don’t fall like this unless there is something really wrong. I’m trying to figure that out and the only thing that I can come up with is that the Fed has been bullied into raising interest rates into a weakening economy. Raising interest rates to bring down the price of oil or to untangle the supply chain disruptions is an act of lunacy.  The … Read more

Earnings Black Out Period will Begin Soon but No One Really Knows When

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I think it’s time to review the earnings blackout window as this lack of insider buying provides fuel for short sellers to attack the confidence of equity investors.  Not that they need much help with this as the inflation, interest rate, and beating war drums provide plenty of fuel to discourage investors.  I was encouraged to find this academic article which confirmed much of my bias, that there are no formal rules about these earnings blackout windows. Much of this article is inspired by the scholarly works of Wayne R. Guay (The Wharton School), Shawn Kim (The Wharton School), and … Read more

Insider Buying Week 6-10-22 The Mood Darkens as the Earnings Blackout Envelopes

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  Curious how well insiders are doing with their buys? Scroll through the significant buys of the last year. The S&P 500 lost 5% points in what was one of its most bruising outings this past week. It’s almost a foregone conclusion we will test the lows of 2022 and enter “bear market territory”.  At the cost of being labeled a Perma bull, I will proffer that that that is the time to add, rather than retreat. As painful as it may be, this is where insiders’ buying adds some confidence to a fragile and shaken market. Unfortunately, we are … Read more

Insider Buying Week 6-3-22 In Comes the Earnings Blackout Period

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  Curious how well insiders are doing with their buys? Scroll through the significant buys of the last year. Only oil and gas stocks escaped the payback carnage on Friday.  We are getting closer and closer to the dreaded blackout period. A period where corporate insiders are prohibited from trading in their own stock. The one thing that buoys investor sentiment in a bear market is when insiders step up and purchase their own company’s stock. There will be less and less of this to report and short-sellers know this. They delight in capitulation and if there was ever a … Read more

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