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Insider Buying 12-20-24 Fill up the Tank Volatility Right On Cue

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Its been a stunning collapse of the premier oil and gas companies stock prices since Trump’s election. You would think that an industry so overwhelmingly Republican and a President so enamored with drilling for oil would be a combustible combination . It’s just the opposite. It’s hard to believe that history can repeat itself right on cue as energy stocks were the laggards of the last Trump administration. With EV investment tax credits likely to disappear, with a President whose platform is “drill baby drill” you would think there would be at least some Holiday Season joy in the oil … Read more

Insider Buying Week 11-24-23 Are Investors the Turkey this Thanksgiving?

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Trying to read the tea leaves and glean some information from insider buying patterns is seldom obvious.  Directors are generally required to own a percentage of their board compensation in the company’s equity.  Generally is the right word because this is not a requirement at every company.  Investors viewing this information have to weigh it against past purchases, if any, actual board stock ownership requirements, the relative size of the purchase, and, of course, the recent price history.  Are they buying near the highs or, more typically, purchasing shares at recent lows in price? Insiders tend to be value buyers, … Read more

Yields Collapsed- Stocks Soared Insider Buying week 11-5-21 the Race to the Finish

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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. 3 Intel birds, 2 Dow Doves, and Archer Aviation in a Pear Tree, on the fourth day of Christmas my true love sent to me:  The shelves might be bare in some stores this XMAS season but there is nothing short of miraculous how the stock market does nothing but power higher. The performance race to the finish we highlighted two weeks ago is game on.  We’ve got a few names to analyze this week … Read more

Another Roller Coaster Week on the Coronavirus Train- Insider Buying is Picking Up

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The headlines don’t stop. Most of them scary and getting worse by the day. That didn’t stop insiders from buying falling knives but not in the quantity I’m looking for to mark the all clear.  The pace of buying is clearly picking up, though IT SEEMS that Friday the 28th was the climax and insiders paused as the news headlines worsened about the virus.  In times of increasing investor panic, insiders will restore confidence, especially when they buy across the board. In this post, we examine insiders purchasing $200,000 of more of their company’s shares, looking for clues that may … Read more

Technical Rally

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My indicators are showing bullish divergence on all of the major future markets.  We could have a very tradable rally here in spite of the ugly headlines.  As is always the case, how much is being priced in is key to the analysis.  The market now is poised to react violently to the upside with a whiff of good news.    

How bad was last week?

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Dow took its losing streak to six days, and has now fallen in 12 of the past 13 days. The WSJ points out that the last time the Dow suffered as many losses over a 13-day stretch was in October 1974, at the nadir of that decade’s bear market. What should also concern investors and market commentators is that this selling has occurred amid the heaviest trading volumes of the year. The NYSE had its fourth straight day in which at least four billion shares were traded.