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Insider Buying Week 11-29-24 How Long Can the Honeymoon Last?

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How long can the Trump stock market honeymoon go on? Of course no one knows the answer to that.  Anyone who thinks they do is self delusional at best or a charlatan at worst.  I did pick up a bit of Truist. It hasn’t ramped like the other names on this week’s list of notable insider buys with the exception of Valvoline.  I just can’t bring myself to the table on  VVV.  I was surprised to find that even EVs use oil. Someone shared a story about their Tesla Cyber Truck leaking oil and the horrendous customer support.  The pace … Read more

‘s Wrong with this Market? Insider Buying Week 10-27-23

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$OXYLast week, I had two conversations with astute market watchers, one a long-time successful UBS financial wealth manager and the other, a close personal friend who bought the second charity lunch with the Oracle of Omaha.  He is a lifelong fan of Warren Buffet and a long-time investor in Berkshire Hathaway.  I presented them both with the same market fact- that over the last 40 years, ~40% of the overall return of the S&P 500 has been from dividends. I asked them both the same question and got nearly identical answers. What do you think the dividend yield of the … 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

The Stock Market is our Squid Game Insider Buying week 10-22-21

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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. You think there can’t get any less insider buying but it gets worse week by week. Check out this ratio of insider buying/selling charted against the S&P 500.  March 2020 insiders rushed to play the game.  Now they are in full retreat knowing that we are just one move away from getting their head blown off. The stock market is starting to resemble Netflix’s dystopian hit, The Squid Game. Asset prices are at record highs, … Read more

”t forget the Covid-19 test kit $QDEL Insider Buying Week of 6-19-20

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These are the insider buys that matter for last week. For real time insider alerts subscribe to our Twitter at https://twitter.com/theinsidersfund.  When insiders buy, stocks make knee jerk moves up. The best time period to make bank is the next three days, perhaps five and then the prior trend sets in.  Follow us on Twitter for the names we take an interest in. This week’s top movers are Camping World Holdings up 27.03% and Quidel, up 29.88% The average 3 day gain was 5.25% and holding just three days longer pushed it to 8.04%.  If there is no 5 day … 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