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Insider Buying Week 07-26-24 A Volatile Week with a Continued Absence of Insider Buying

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I wrote last week that “The assassination attempt on Trump failed, but the Republican Convention succeeded in killing the Trump stock market rally. The week started on a positive note with almost a providential feel. Still, it began unraveling as market participants grappled with what a second-term Trump Presidency might really look like.” It’s a fool’s errand trying to anticipate the hive mind of the market, yet no hedge fund manager dare ignore it despite their assurances of their ‘long term investor’ commitments.  So here’s my take, the market began to fixate on what a Republican blowout would mean up … Read more

Insiders Who Nailed Market Bottom Are Starting to Sell Stocks – Notable Insider Buys 7-24-20

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According to Bloomberg, as U.S. stocks climb to their most expensive levels in two decades, the executives in charge of the companies benefiting from the rally are showing signs of anxiety.Corporate insiders, whose buying correctly signaled the bottom in March, are now mostly sellers. Almost 1,000 corporate executives and officers have unloaded shares of their own companies this month, outpacing insider buyers by a ratio of 5-to-1, data compiled by the Washington Service showed. Only twice in the past three decades has the sell-buy ratio been higher than now. Source: Insiders Who Nailed Market Bottom Are Starting to Sell Stocks … Read more

Riots, Protests, Pandemics and a Little Insider Buying Week Ending June 5th, 2020

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The monster purchase by Mitchell Rales of 141,20 shares of Danaher Corp DHR at $164.69 represented just 0.4% change in his holdings.  If an insider is doubling his holdings, this likely has more significance than just upping your holdings by 4/10 tenths of a percent, but this was still a monster buy and I wanted to analyze it. Danaher has made the Rales brothers billionaires and it seems they are none to eager to unload it. Not sure what to make of Director Glazer’s purchase of $1.7 Million of HCHC.  HC2 Holdings is a publicly traded investment vehicle with Philip … Read more