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Insider Buying 03-14-25 Nothing Good Happens Below the 200 Day Moving Average

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CHAOS 2.0 seems to be morphing into Insanity 1.0.  Consumer confidence is plunging, businesses are scrambling for direction, and the world seems like a far more dangerous place as we turn allies into enemies.  The stock market is a giant real time voting machine, imperfect and prone to panic just like real people.  The 1st Quarter is coming to a close which also means insiders are blacked out from buying their stock.  Living below the 200-day moving average is a constant struggle between doubt and conviction. Without insiders confirming our decisions, it will be even more challenging than normal. The … Read more

Insider Buying Week 5-5-23 Banking Blood Bath is it time to Buy?

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Insiders came out to play last week. It was not pretty, but insiders are bottom fishers, as a rule. They buy in force when prices are down when they perceive a bottom.  Regional bank insiders were all over the field scooping up prices that haven’t been seen since the Pandemic lows. Unfortunately, most of it was in regional bank stocks. Bank stocks are notoriously difficult to understand. First of all, they are highly leveraged, between 5-10% Tier 1 capital ratios which is the ratio of a bank’s core tier 1 capital—its equity capital and disclosed reserves—to its total risk-weighted assets.  Usually, that … Read more