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For trade, details click on this link to the trades  The efficient market hypothesis assumes that all current information is reflected in the current price of a security. According to the EMH, stocks always trade at their fair value on exchanges, making it impossible for investors to purchase undervalued stocks or sell stocks for inflated prices. When we look at insider buying and selling,  we are examining and theorizing the possible motives of the people that know the company the best.  What information do they possess that is not already priced into the stock?     Name: Moskovitz Dustin A … Read more

Insider Buying week 6-18-21

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For trade, details click on this link to the trades  All the talking heads made fools of themselves last week.  Powel said the economy was doing great; the Dow plummeted, its worst week since October of last year. The market marched in lockstep, giving up on the cyclical recovery trade, hammering banks, energy, material sectors, and lifted the neglected technology growth sector. The Fed said they got it that inflation was running hotter than they thought, and they might tweak interest rates higher a wee bit sooner.  Instead of interest rates going up, long-term interest rates plummeted, and the yield … Read more

Long Overdue Rule Change on Insider Trading

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Let’s hope it comes about. I’ve been talking about this for years.  Insiders have rigorous disclosure mechanisms when they buy stock but little to none with these “canned ready-to-go trading plans” known as Rule 10b5-1. They are an abomination. It’s about time someone does something to level the playing field for the public. https://www.reuters.com/business/us-secs-gensler-says-has-asked-staff-consider-new-rules-company-trading-plans-2021-06-07/ WASHINGTON, June 7 (Reuters) – The head of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) said on Monday he has asked staff to tighten up a legal safe-harbor that allows corporate executives to buy or sell company stock without running afoul of insider trading laws. The … Read more

Insider Buying this Week $EGHT 8X8 Inc.has $1 Million Conviction Insider Buy

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For trade, details click on this link to the trades  The efficient market hypothesis assumes that all current information is reflected in the current price of a security. According to the EMH, stocks always trade at their fair value on exchanges, making it impossible for investors to purchase undervalued stocks or sell stocks for inflated prices. When we look at insider buying and selling,  we are examining and theorizing the possible motives of the people that know the company the best.  What information do they possess that is not already priced into the stock? Name: Mcguire Terrance Position: Director Shares … Read more

Cigar Butts beat Premium Brands-1st Week of Summer $SCOR up 20%

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For trade, details click on this link to the trades  The efficient market hypothesis assumes that all current information is reflected in the current price of a security. According to the EMH, stocks always trade at their fair value on exchanges, making it impossible for investors to purchase undervalued stocks or sell stocks for inflated prices. When we look at insider buying and selling,  we are examining and theorizing the possible motives of the people that know the company the best.  What information do they possess that is not already priced into the stock? Name: Gotlieb Irwin Position: Director Shares … Read more

AT&T Insiders Buy $T and Stankey is Stinky but Discovery $DISCK and Malone might just Work

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For trade, details click on this link to the trades   The efficient market hypothesis assumes that all current information is reflected in the current price of a security. According to the EMH, stocks always trade at their fair value on exchanges, making it impossible for investors to purchase undervalued stocks or sell stocks for inflated prices. When we look at insider buying and selling,  we are examining and theorizing the possible motives of the people that know the company the best.  What information do they possess that is not already priced into the stock?   Descriptions Name: Stankey John … Read more

Cutera, a great reopening play but were not chasing $CUTR- Is it time to Bloom Again? Buy $BE

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For trade, details click on this link to the trades A few names from last week’s insider buys stand out.  Insider buying/selling ratios are improving a bit as well. We are always on the lookout for beaten-up sectors in the market that start attracting insider buying. Last year between June and September regional bank insiders were buying their shares hand over fist. That turned out to be one of the best buying opportunities in this beaten-down sector.   The regional bank ETF KRE has beaten the S&P 500 by nearly 50% points during the last year. Last week we see two … Read more

Our Private Twitter Account and more about Bitcoin or better yet Bitcon

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The membership part of the blog, The Insiders Report, has been live now for a couple of months and seems to be functioning without causing me a lot of distraction.  My fiance told me the other night that the blog thing was way too long and complicated to have any commercial appeal. I’m not offended nor surprised.  I said to her, “Do you know who I write the blog for?  She nodded, knowing me, smiled, and said, “You? The blog always started as a way for me to write and gather my own thoughts.  It was and still is edutainment.  … Read more

Insiders Trounce the Market Week May 14th and a Bold Theme Insiders Uncover

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For trade, details click on this link to the trades GREENHILL & CO INC up 11.57% AVIS BUDGET GROUP Inc up 9.37% GoPro Inc. up 8.21% Elanco Animal Health Inc up 7.27% Energy Transfer LP up 6.13% CENTERPOINT ENERGY INC up 6.11% Gogo Inc. up 4.90% TUPPERWARE BRANDS CORP up 4.56% Vistra Corp. up 4.46% AMERISAFE INC up 4.34% CENTERPOINT ENERGY INC up 3.99% Vistra Corp. up 3.87% Green Brick Partners Inc. up 3.71% Garrett Motion Inc. up 2.66% BANC OF CALIFORNIA Inc up1.77% American Assets Trust Inc. up 1.69% GoPro Inc. up 0.95% Activision Blizzard Inc. down 1.81%   … Read more

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That’s what I thought when I plowed into Trupanion TRUP only to get picked up and thrown on the matt for a bruising loss. Large insider buys with a good track record and a glowing over the top article from Motley Fool caused me a humiliating beat down by Mr. Market.  Usually, you can ride the momentum from a big insider buy for two or three days before really doing your research. During this time-I plow into the finances and hype to determine if you want to follow this insider before you realize he’s smoking crack or just someone very … Read more

Insiders are Nibling- Notable Insider Buy Trupanion TRUP Week ending May 7th

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For trade, details click on this link to the trades U.S. SILICA HOLDINGS Inc up13.46% B. Riley Financial Inc. up 11.29% RAYONIER ADVANCED MATERIALS Inc up 9.51% Adtalem Global Education Inc. up 8.37% ELI LILLY & Co up 6.88% PQ Group Holdings Inc. up 6.14% Mayville Engineering Company Inc. up 6.13% TRAVELZOO up 5.50% TRUPANION Inc up 4.62% AMPHENOL CORP up 3.32% INTEL CORP up 2.98% Armstrong Flooring Inc. up 5.58% ENTERPRISE FINANCIAL SERVICES CORP UP 1.37% American Assets Trust Inc. up 0.95% MASIMO CORP down 3.22% After weeks of near senescence, insiders are nibbling at their own stock. The … Read more

Where have all the flowers gone?-Oh when will they ever learn, oh when will they ever learn?

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For trade, details click on this link to the trades Peter Paul and Marry were singing about something much more profane than insiders buying their own stock, but then again, were they? Pete Seeger may have written the lyrics but the tune is all the same. Don’t let anybody kid you, the two most important things in most people’s lives are their health and their money.  They generally don’t give a damn about their health until they lose it.  So it really boils down to their money.  Paying attention to what insiders are doing with their own money is the … Read more

The Insider Buying Great Vanishing Act Week Ending April 23

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For trade details click on this link to the trades Are we the only ones talking about how insiders have taken their chips off the board? This is the smallest amount of insider buying we have seen since 2016.  Just looking back at my records, the S&P 500 was up 11.96% that year.  Consider the S&P 500 is already up 12%, which doesn’t auger well for the remainder of the year. It’s hard not to get enthusiastic about a market making new highs, low-interest rates, the most dovish Fed Chairman in history, the 2nd most dovish at the Treasury, and … Read more

COINBASE -if bitcoin is a house of cards- then $COIN is the clarion bell on top of the house about to crumble.

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We are excited and nervous at the same time about our short position in Coinbase Global, Inc., known as Coinbase. COIN is an American company that operates a cryptocurrency exchange platform that operates remote-first without an official physical headquarters. They recently went public in a much-publicized direct listing. I don’t think COIN could have timed the offering better. It was one of the largest ever direct listings and insiders unloaded a stunning amount of their holdings. If bitcoin is a house of cards as I believe it is, then COIN is the clarion bell on top of the house about … Read more

1st Quarter 2021 Partner Letter

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The Insiders Fund 1st quarter 2021 Partner letter is available to interested parties on our website at https://insomniachedge.com/partner-letters . It was a fun quarter, a great time to be invested.  The Insiders Fund was up 0.80% for March 2021 while the S&P 500 returned 4.26%. The Insiders Fund was up 28.41% for the 1st quarter versus 6.17% for the benchmark. For the trailing 12 months, we returned 136.97% ( after all fees and expenses) versus the S&P 500 up 56.35% (includes dividends). If you’ve been on the fence contemplating investing in The Insiders Fund, the letter gives you an intimate … Read more

Live Webinar Monday April 19th 6:00PM The Insiders Guide to Shredding the Markets

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I’m spilling the beans, the secret sauce during this live webinar. Everything I’ve learned in over twenty years of trading the markets including how we just earned 92% in 92 days in a diversified portfolio. Every question will be answered in the time permitted or by a follow-up email. I guarantee you that there will be something for everyone, beginner or the most sophisticated- this will be a live educational event you won’t want to miss. Click on the Image Above to Register for the Event or go to https://events.marketsmarttoday.com/webinar-apr-19-linkedin/ Lots of great stuff here are just a few of … Read more

Don’t wait for the Happy Ending-Insiders are Unloading Way too much Stock

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For trade details click on this link to the trades   We’ve been talking about how insiders are restricted from buying because of the quarterly earnings blackout period.  That sure hasn’t stopped them from selling, making a farce out of the SEC’s measures to protect the public investor from the officers, directors, and 10% or more shareholders that are considered to be privy to special inside information. Rather than rail about the inequities we face, we prefer to take the world as it’s given to us and try to make the best of it.  This week is downright ugly.  Of … Read more

Using the Relative Strength Index (RSI) and Covered Calls to Preserve Long Term Capital Gains

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One of the tools I regularly use to preserve gains and especially long-term capital gains is writing covered calls on positions that I think can do down in the near term. Technical analysis is a great tool to predict short-term price movements.  Take the example of Crown Castle Internationa. Crown Castle is a real estate investment trust and provider of shared communications infrastructure in the United States. Its network includes over 40,000 cell towers and nearly 80,000 route miles of fiber supporting small cells and fiber solutions. Wikipedia CCI has got most of the ingredients we want for a low-risk equity … Read more

Insider Buying Week Ending April 9th- Market making new highs without help from insiders

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For trade details click on this link to the trades % Trade Date Company Ticker Change Applied Molecular Transport Inc. AMTI 16.50% DELCATH SYSTEMS Inc DCTH 7.07% JOANN Inc. JOAN 4.49% REPUBLIC SERVICES Inc RSG 4.13% Howard Hughes Corp HHC 2.85% Science Applications International Corp SAIC 1.04% TCW STRATEGIC INCOME FUND INC TSI 0.07% TCW STRATEGIC INCOME FUND INC TSI 0.05% GREIF INC GEF -1.45% There was very little insider buying of note this last week.  If you rule out the almost daily offerings of new  SPACS which are for the most part future mediocre to poor investments by self-dealing … Read more

‘s About Them Apples? Insiders Fund up 137% Trailing 12 Month Return

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We made 6x to 12x what we paid for SAVA in just two months   We just updated our one-month, three months, and twelve months return and were pleasantly surprised to see an eye-popping return of 137% for the trailing 12 months ending March. Some of that return can be credited to the general market.  The S&P 500 was up 56% but 81% of the Fund’s return was the excess return, in other words-alpha. The Insiders Fund performed admirably without taking excessive risks. We did this by concentrating our investment funds on our best ideas, not diversifying across dozens of … Read more

Insider Buys Week of April 2nd 2021

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For trade details click on this link to the trades Company Ticker GTY Technology Holdings Inc. GTYH You Harry L. Director 10% Owner 61.83% Designer Brands Inc. DBI SCHOTTENSTEIN JAY L Chairman 10% Owner 21.37% Designer Brands Inc. DBI Schottenstein Joseph A. Director 20.34% Green Brick Partners Inc. GRBK Brandler Harry Director 12.61% RHYTHM PHARMACEUTICALS Inc RYTM Meeker David P CEO 10.26% CASI Pharmaceuticals Inc. CASI He Wei-Wu CEO Chairman 9.76% APARTMENT INVESTMENT & MANAGEMENT CO AIV CONSIDINE TERRY Director 9.71% Epizyme Inc. EPZM MOTT DAVID M Director 8.23% REV Group Inc. REVG Rushing Rodney M CEO 6.95% RENT A … Read more

Insider Buying Disappears but it may not mean anything due to Earnings Black Out

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For trade details click on this link to the trades Thryv Holdings Inc. THRY 31.92% Veritiv Corp VRTV 9.07% Advantage Solutions Inc. ADV 8.72% Advantage Solutions Inc. ADV 6.96% Limoneira CO LMNR 6.71% APARTMENT INVESTMENT & MANAGEMENT CO AIV 3.59% Limoneira CO LMNR 1.58% Most people have never heard of these companies.  That’s where we are at in this cycle. That’s not a good sign for the overall market returns. When the companies you’ve heard of are not buying their own stock, it means they don’t see much value- or it’s flat in the middle of the quarterly earnings blackout … Read more

Market Posts a Down Week but Tupperware and Mustang Bio Insiders are Buying March 19th

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For trade details click on this link to the trades Company Ticker % Change MUSTANG BIO Inc MBIO 13.46% TUPPERWARE BRANDS CORP TUP 9.52% TUPPERWARE BRANDS CORP TUP 6.93% HC2 HOLDINGS Inc HCHC 6.84% GoHealth Inc. GOCO 5.45% GoHealth Inc. GOCO 5.45% MYERS INDUSTRIES INC MYE 4.14% CROWN CASTLE INTERNATIONAL CORP CCI 2.88% Keurig Dr Pepper Inc. KDP 2.52% TIPTREE Inc TIPT 1.79% COMSCORE Inc SCOR 0.01% Limoneira CO LMNR -0.75% VICI PROPERTIES Inc VICI -0.81% ORACLE CORP ORCL -1.50% APARTMENT INVESTMENT & MANAGEMENT CO AIV -3.06% TUPPERWARE BRANDS CORP TUP -3.99% Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Co Ltd. BHVN -7.28% Bandwidth … Read more

Everyone is talking about Tesla and not Tupperware- go figure.

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For trade details click on this link to the trades MUSTANG BIO Inc up 16.35% TUPPERWARE BRANDS CORP up 11.58% Asana Inc. up 3.80% CROWN CASTLE INTERNATIONAL CORP up 2.52% First, the market.  It definitely feels heavy to me and admittedly I’m nervous going long into tax season.  Lots of investors sold stock last year to lock in lower capital gains rates in fear of the Biden administration raising the tax rate on long-term capital gains or perhaps any gains. The first two weeks in April are tough. They usually are as people sell stock to pay for their taxes.  … Read more

What Insiders Bought Week of March 12th 2021

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For trade details click on this link to the trades GAIA INC up 31.42% Blue Apron Holdings Inc. up 18.96% ADT Inc. up 16.72% NetApp Inc. up 9.34% IRONWOOD PHARMACEUTICALS INC up 9.06% Morphic Holding Inc. up 8.80% TENNECO INC up 8.63% Texas Pacific Land Corp up 4.59% PARKER HANNIFIN CORP up 4.25% NEWS CORP up 3.49% Walmart Inc. up 3.46% Forian Inc. up 3.31% Kennedy-Wilson Holdings Inc. up 2.98% LIONS GATE ENTERTAINMENT CORP up 2.37% CERNER Corp up 0.18% Kinsale Capital Group Inc. up 0.17% PLx Pharma Inc. up -0.25% Archer-Daniels-Midland Co -0.26% MICROSOFT CORP -0.44% INTERCEPT PHARMACEUTICALS Inc … Read more

Insiders are Buying Utilities -Should You? Week of March 5th 2021

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For trade details click on this link to the trades EchoStar CORP up 13.60% Vistra Corp. up 8.53% EXXON MOBIL CORP up 8.30% * Multiple Buys TELEDYNE TECHNOLOGIES INC up 8.30% * Multiple Buys Cortexyme Inc. up 7.50% Vistra Corp. up 7.15% IRONWOOD PHARMACEUTICALS INC up 9.44% TELEDYNE TECHNOLOGIES INC up 7.08% Hanesbrands Inc. up 6.84% Primo Water Corp up 5.39% * Multiple Buys Evergy Inc. up 4.34% Multiple Buys Wayfair Inc. up 4.229% CENTERPOINT ENERGY INC up 4.13% Multiple Buys iHeartMedia Inc. up 2.94% AGREE REALTY CORP up 2.77% Multiple Buys FLEXSTEEL INDUSTRIES INC up 2.11% ENTERPRISE PRODUCTS PARTNERS … Read more

A Bruising Week for Investors yet Insiders Still Post Modest Gains

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For trade details click on this link to the trades AVIS BUDGET GROUP Inc up 21.08% American Assets Trust Inc. up 5.36% CHEVRON CORP up 5.03% Sonos Inc up 4.26% NU SKIN ENTERPRISES Inc up 3.41% INCYTE CORP up 1.67% AGREE REALTY CORP up 1.46% GREENHILL & CO INC up 1.21% DuPont de Nemours Inc. up 0.54% Sensei Biotherapeutics Inc. up 0.12% Royalty Pharma plc down -0.56 QUIDEL CORP down -0.63% Macy’s Inc. down -1.36% CERNER Corp down -1.83% ABBOTT LABORATORIES down -2.22% Zoetis Inc. down -5.73% Longeveron Inc. down -20% The market genuflected like the herd following creature it … Read more

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When the Chief Scientific Officer of a biotech company buys  $1 million of his Company’s stock, normally stock traders take notice. Not here.  Joshua Hare made an open market purchase of 103,000 shares of Longeveron at $9.98 on the Company’s IPO.  Within a week, he’s down a stunning 38%. Longeveron has been one of the worst-performing IPOs in one of the strongest markets I’ve ever seen.  Is Aging Frailty just a hoax? Another one of the live forever theories promulgated by aging billionaires.  The answer to that really won’t matter. If the FDA approves something for aging frailty it will … Read more

“Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life” – Oscar Wilde

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For trade, details click on this link to the trades COTY Inc up 16.52% BridgeBio Pharma Inc. up 6.69% Corvus Pharmaceuticals Inc. up 7.43% TWO HARBORS INVESTMENT CORP. up 5.53% Beyond Air Inc. up 0.90% Black Knight Inc. up 1.45% TWO HARBORS INVESTMENT CORP. up 4.`3% NU SKIN ENTERPRISES Inc up3.20% SVB FINANCIAL GROUP up 3.27% Adtalem Global Education Inc. up 0.80% LPL Financial Holdings Inc. up .72% EVEREST RE GROUP LTD down -2.07% CVS HEALTH Corp down 2.19% KKR & Co. Inc. down 2.83% Bumble Inc. down 5.88% Longeveron Inc.down 38.29%    Coty Insiders are at it again. Three … Read more