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Insider Buying Week 6-23-23- The Fed Plays Whac-A- Mole

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The Stock Market is not supposed to go up for some perverse logic when the Fed tightens. Maybe because wealth is really intrinsically undemocratic in the mind of the elites. They want to kill any chance of their status being threatened. The market has been looking for a sign-  TO SELL. The Fed gave them one last week.  TO PROFIT, TO MORTALLY WOUND THE OPPONENT, A KICK IN THE FACE, EGOMANIAICAL ADVANTAGE. The Federal Reserve Chairman and his cohorts of rate-hiking Whac-a-Molers provided some fuel that ignited the latest bout of interest rate hike anxiety. Ironically the curve is the … Read more

Bye Bye Jay Time for Another Chair Insider Buying Week 3-24-23

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We are deep in the darkness, the earnings blackout period in which corporate insiders are restricted from buying their own shares. It’s a perfect time for short sellers to prey on the frazzled nerves of investors that just experienced their first bank run since the Great Financial Recession of 2008. This time the run wasn’t caused by Wall Street and banks that sold liars loans to uncreditworthy customers but instead by the monetary policy of the Federal Reserve itself. Jay Powell left interest rates at zero far too long and raised them far too fast. He failed at running the … Read more

Federal Reserve Chairman Powell is a Dangerous man

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I wrote to clients in the February update that  Federal Reserve Chairman Powell is a dangerous fellow.  Last week he proved that causing a run on the banking system.  Ironically if the creation of a new Bank Term Funding Program (BTFP)had been in place the week before, Silicon Valley Bank might have avoided failure and bankruptcy. Powell’s rapid hike in interest rates as a cure for the supply-side inflation shock is likely to be as successful as the ancient but now discredited medical practice of bleeding the patient. If Powell was the CEO of a public company, activist shareholders would … Read more

Massimo and Apple Showdown coming soon to a screen near you-other notable Insider Buys

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Learn How You Can Become an Insider Too – Click Here   The reality of significantly richer returns on risk-free assets like U.S. Treasuries has taken hold of investors’ psyches. The marginal excess returns that the stock market is likely to provide over the 10 Year Treasury are still mildly attractive. Considering the historic return of the stock market is 7.5%-8%, is the 3.7% to 4.18% risk premium above yesterday’s 3.82% 10 Year Treasury Yield worth it?  For some retired investors losing sleep over the market’s gut-wrenching volatility- the answer is clearly no.  Years of financial repression are over for … Read more

Insider Buying Week 11-11-22 Inflation is Dead- The War is Over- The Dems hold the Line

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This week’s Insider Report marks the end of an experiment with a paid subscription service. From here on out the Insiders Report is free and I am relieved of my weekend chores. I’ll still continue to blog on insider buying and selling as my time permits. I’ve written numerous times that all bear markets in the last 20 years have ended with a crescendo of insider buying.  The number of insiders buying picked up dramatically last week some with household names like Boeing and CME Group.  There are finally some reasons to be hopeful that this miserable year of investing … Read more

Insider Buying Week 6-24-22 The Market Comes Roaring Back as Powell gets a Mouthful

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  Curious how well insiders are doing with their buys? Scroll through the significant buys of the last year. The Fed has been bullied into raising interest rates into a weakening economy. Raising interest rates to bring down the price of oil or to untangle the supply chain disruptions is an act of lunacy.  The market is telling us that. Last week a bunch of senators and representatives gave the Fed Chairman a mouthful of that for the first time.   Now many congressional members are telling the Fed Chairman Powel that bleeding the patient to cure the disease is obsolete. … Read more

‘s 5% Decline

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  Curious how well insiders are doing with their buys? Scroll through the significant buys of the last year. The S&P 500 lost over 6% points last week after losing 5% in the previous week. Stocks don’t fall like this unless there is something really wrong. I’m trying to figure that out and the only thing that I can come up with is that the Fed has been bullied into raising interest rates into a weakening economy. Raising interest rates to bring down the price of oil or to untangle the supply chain disruptions is an act of lunacy.  The … Read more

Insider Buying week 8-27-21

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For trade, details click on this link to the trades.  I had a dream Friday morning about the stock market. I yelled out in my sleep, “everything is going up.” I woke up and it pretty much did exactly that. In a good market, almost all trades bounce sharply but the stickiness and real progress from there are what you have to measure. Perhaps deduct 4 or 5 percent from all the posted returns to determine your likely return as getting them at the same price or lower than the insider’s purchase cost is difficult to do since they almost … Read more

Cutera, a great reopening play but were not chasing $CUTR- Is it time to Bloom Again? Buy $BE

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For trade, details click on this link to the trades A few names from last week’s insider buys stand out.  Insider buying/selling ratios are improving a bit as well. We are always on the lookout for beaten-up sectors in the market that start attracting insider buying. Last year between June and September regional bank insiders were buying their shares hand over fist. That turned out to be one of the best buying opportunities in this beaten-down sector.   The regional bank ETF KRE has beaten the S&P 500 by nearly 50% points during the last year. Last week we see two … Read more

Insiders Trounce the Market Week May 14th and a Bold Theme Insiders Uncover

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For trade, details click on this link to the trades GREENHILL & CO INC up 11.57% AVIS BUDGET GROUP Inc up 9.37% GoPro Inc. up 8.21% Elanco Animal Health Inc up 7.27% Energy Transfer LP up 6.13% CENTERPOINT ENERGY INC up 6.11% Gogo Inc. up 4.90% TUPPERWARE BRANDS CORP up 4.56% Vistra Corp. up 4.46% AMERISAFE INC up 4.34% CENTERPOINT ENERGY INC up 3.99% Vistra Corp. up 3.87% Green Brick Partners Inc. up 3.71% Garrett Motion Inc. up 2.66% BANC OF CALIFORNIA Inc up1.77% American Assets Trust Inc. up 1.69% GoPro Inc. up 0.95% Activision Blizzard Inc. down 1.81%   … Read more

Insiders are Buying Utilities -Should You? Week of March 5th 2021

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For trade details click on this link to the trades EchoStar CORP up 13.60% Vistra Corp. up 8.53% EXXON MOBIL CORP up 8.30% * Multiple Buys TELEDYNE TECHNOLOGIES INC up 8.30% * Multiple Buys Cortexyme Inc. up 7.50% Vistra Corp. up 7.15% IRONWOOD PHARMACEUTICALS INC up 9.44% TELEDYNE TECHNOLOGIES INC up 7.08% Hanesbrands Inc. up 6.84% Primo Water Corp up 5.39% * Multiple Buys Evergy Inc. up 4.34% Multiple Buys Wayfair Inc. up 4.229% CENTERPOINT ENERGY INC up 4.13% Multiple Buys iHeartMedia Inc. up 2.94% AGREE REALTY CORP up 2.77% Multiple Buys FLEXSTEEL INDUSTRIES INC up 2.11% ENTERPRISE PRODUCTS PARTNERS … Read more

XMAS Week- Santa Arrived with a Stocking light on Insider Buys

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For trade details click on this link to the trades Odonate Therapeutics Inc. up 13.79% Vistra Corp. up 7.28% HENRY JACK & ASSOCIATES INC up 0.86%     It hasn’t been a good year for Odonate Therapeutics but that could be about to change. Kevin Tang was at it again, this time the CEO buying $4.18 Million of ODT at $15.15.  Incredibly enough in this charged market the stock almost immediately pushed $20 per share where we took most of the profits off the table.  Sorry but when stocks move 25% in one day on news like this and you … Read more

‘m Giving Robert Coury another Change to F*ck Me, Insider Trading Week Ending 12-18-20

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For trade details click on this link to the trades   PROGENITY Inc up 38.05%  COO Silvestry bought 58,081 shares of PROG at $4.58.  Progenity announced on December 17th  that it is expanding the availability of COVID-19 RT-PCR testing across the United States to support the rising demand for testing. Testing is performed using the Thermo Fisher Applied Biosystems TaqPath COVID-19 Combo Kit, under Emergency Use Authorization by the FDA. Although the stock rocketed on this news combined with insider buying, it’s been a rough haul for shareholders.  Give this one a little time to pullback. PROG recently did a … Read more

Reality Check- Insider Buying Week Ending 6-26-20

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It was not a fun week for longs as Coronavirus is on the rise and insiders are blacked out before 2nd quarter earnings. I doubt that insiders were chomping on the bit to buy as the market rebound from the March lows has them unloading their holdings at a record pace. There were a few buys of interest and we highlight them here.  Until we figure out why our embedded Google sheet is not displaying in the RSS feed in our MailChimp blast, here is the link to the trades- Founder and former CEO Eric Lefkofsky bought $5.39 Million worth … 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

‘s Refinery Blows Up- Better to be Lucky than Good

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Insider Buying Week Ending June 21, 2019 PBF Energy CEO Buys $950,000 in Stock Moments before Competitor’s Refinery Blows Up reminding me of the saying when it comes to Wall Street, Sometimes It’s Better to be Lucky than Good Ron Perleman thinks Scientific Games is his lottery ticket. Investors aren’t so lucky. Prospect Capital Corp insiders like its 10% plus yield yet the stock is lower now than a year ago in spite of the bull run in yield sensitive names. Medicine Man Technologies is no cure for poverty.  Insiders can play games too. Insiders sell stock for many reasons, … Read more