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Insider Buying 02-07-25 The Frenzy Underneath Continues

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Screw theVIX, its become irrelvant until it doesn’. and it certainly doesn’t seem to matter now.The market did not look pretty last week, and Friday’s consumer sentiment confirmed it.  People poll and say that want change but they don’t seem to want change fast. That’s why companies staying private r have more freedom to enact bold management, strategic, or financial maneuvers.  We already know that markets don’t like uncertainty. Why should we think consumers want anything different? Name: Inge G Thulin Position: Director Transaction Date: 2-06-2025 Shares Bought: 2,833 shares an Average Price Paid of $88.25 for Cost: $250,000 Name: … Read more

‘t short Nvidia

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The market had it’s fugazi moment last week, when the world in one resounding mini crash concluded Nvidia might have limits on its unfettered growth and reign supreme. Skepticism is healthy. Analysts have been talking about the different needs of AI from training to inference but suddenly an open source research paper and LLM model named Deep Seek upended the entire AI industry. A Chinese hedge fund named High Flyer created it.  Boy, did they even nail that name.  You just have to wonder was this a giant short by High Flyer. If so, it was probably the best trade … Read more

Insider Buying Week 08-02-24

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Someone wrote last week that the situation in the market was ripe for a crash, reminiscent of the Crash of 1987. I lived through that, so I have some personal observations. The Fed had been hiking rates into a rising market. The market had become increasingly schizophrenic, rising sharply, then falling. Unlike then, the Fed has clearly signaled that it has stopped raising rates and plans to reduce them. Rates were also high, but the market had risen for nearly a decade and was due for a correction.  The Fed Chairman hiked one time too many, and the market swooned.  … Read more

Insider Buying Week 5-26-23

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It’s all AI, Chat GPT, large langauge models, and generative image models. Nvidia’s blowout quarter and guidance sent the market into a bull run seizure moment.  Meanwhile, you hear more and more stories about fake information generated by this “breakthrough AI,” including the latest example on Twitter where an attorney was reprimanded by a judge for his brief, which included fake prior cases entirely fabricated by AI. We can’t ignore the promise, but we certainly shouldn’t be blindsided by the hype. Tread carefully here. At the Insiders Fund, we try to filter out the noise. Here’s what real insiders are … Read more

‘s Easy to Understand Why

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  Curious how well insiders are doing with their buys? Scroll through the significant buys of the last year. The bear case continues to grow as interest rates resume their relentless rise. The war in Ukraine drags on with Russia pummeling Ukraine in a war Putin cannot afford to lose and cannot win.  The U.S and the West cannot afford to lose either as billions and prestige are at stake.  It’s a dangerous situation with an unpredictable outcome when neither party can afford to lose. China doubles down on its zero Covid policy threatening to drag its economy into a … Read more

Insider Buying Picks Up- Week Ending 5-15-20

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Insider buying picked up this week across several depressed sectors like insurance,  small regional banks,  gaming, furniture, REITS, building products, restaurants and retailers, automotive and motorcycle and utility stocks. The buy of the week is property and casualty California auto insurer, Mercury General MCY.  Chairman of the Board George Joseph continued accumulating stock with $15 million of stock purchases at an average price of $35.95. MCY is down from it’s high this year of $52.  MCY yields 6.65%. People are driving less and insurance claim losses are down  as a result of that. Offsetting this, reinvestment rates on bond portfolios … Read more

Notable Insider Buys Week Ending May 10, 2019

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The market suffered its worse loss of the year, but that didn’t stop some insiders buying their own stock. We highlight those over $200,000 in this report. In this report, we highlight open market purchases from employees and directors of more than $200,000.  Insiders sell stock for many reasons, but they generally buy for just one – to make money.  As a standard, we only look at material amounts of money, $200 thousand or more, as anything less could just be window dressing. The bar is different from selling because the natural state of management is to be sellers. This … Read more

Top stocks insiders are buying week ending Aug 4th

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Disgraced former Berkshire Hathaway executive Sokol buys $6,000,000 worth of Seaspan [SSW] as part of a planned purchase and management succession plan.  This is the first insider purchase in over 5 years at the shipping company Martin Landis Chairman of cellular  tower REIT Crown Castle Holdings [CCI] bought 30,000 shares at $110.64 for $3 million. Crown Castle (CCI) only began paying dividends in 2014, but the company currently offers income investors a high dividend yield near 4% with 6-7% annual dividend growth potential. Crown Castle also has an attractive business model with substantial recurring revenue, excellent free cash flow generation, and extremely … Read more