Insider Buying Week 3-25-22

  Curious how well insiders are doing with their buys? Scroll the significant buys of the last year.   Normally we try to focus on insider buying which gives us a granular peek inside the corporate veil and thus some edge at this game.   We stay away from the global macro where we don’t have a perceived edge.  That’s foolhardy to do right now as we are witness to a titanic struggle between autocracy and democracy being waged on a global stage with generational economic implications. The market has acted like it didn’t have a care in the world with … Read more

Insider Buying week 12-17-21

Curious how well insiders are doing with their buys? Click on this link or image above to scroll the significant buys of the last year. Microsoft dipped 0.3% Friday, bringing its weekly decline to nearly 5.5%. Alphabet and Apple fell more than 4%. A handful of tech stocks have been propelling the major averages all year and it’s only natural to see some profit-taking.  I tried to borrow some ARKK stock but there was none available to short. Betting against Infinite multiples has been the most reliable trade of the last month. There was somewhat of a short squeeze on … Read more

Insider Buying week 12-10-21 Closer Inspection showed the Naked Underbelly

Curious how well insiders are doing with their buys? Click on this link or image above to scroll the significant buys of the last year. Infinite multiples and the greater fool theory are showing cracks in the foundation of relative valuation yet the major indices staged a remarkable comeback up 3.82% while insiders nearly doubled that with the average return up 3.82%. A closer inspection though showed the naked underbelly of this market. Momentum favorites are coming under attack and insiders are making a futile attempt to turn the tide. DocuSign and Paypal insiders are nibbling but this won’t likely … Read more

The World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed it skipped the Greek letters “nu” and “xi” in naming its new COVID-19 variant, which it dubbed the “omicron” variant.

Curious how well insiders are doing with their buys? Click on this link or image above to scroll the significant buys of the last year. Insiders were coming back in a pretty big way and then the virus redux hit on Friday.  Does it change anything?  It’s too early to read anything into it as insider buying will have as much as a 48 hour lag to real-world events as the SEC requires insiders to post their transactions within 2 days of making a purchase or sale.  We’ll know more by the end. of next week if the newest Covid … Read more

S&P Continues to Edge Higher and some Potential Home Runs Week 9-3-21

For trade, details click on this link to the trades.  There may not have been a rush of insider buying last week but there are some definite potential home runs to ponder.  None more quixotical than NGR Partners.  Crimble, the CEO, has bought 1,140,000 million shares spending $7,134,034 during the last five years at every lower prices. His latest purchase was just was up 18% last week. Then there are the CEO and CFO duo from Cano Health who purchased over $16 million dollars worth of CANO yielding gains as high as 35% in a week!  I’m going to spend … Read more

Insider Buying week 8-27-21

For trade, details click on this link to the trades.  I had a dream Friday morning about the stock market. I yelled out in my sleep, “everything is going up.” I woke up and it pretty much did exactly that. In a good market, almost all trades bounce sharply but the stickiness and real progress from there are what you have to measure. Perhaps deduct 4 or 5 percent from all the posted returns to determine your likely return as getting them at the same price or lower than the insider’s purchase cost is difficult to do since they almost … Read more