The following is an excerpt from a recent Market Comment featured on The Felder Report PREMIUM.
As most readers should be well aware, one of the things I monitor most closely is insider buying and selling.
Nobody knows more about the bullish and bearish developments of a business and its valuation relative to those developments than the company’s top executives. Now some believe that, while insider activity may sometimes be a good indication of future price movements in individual stocks, in aggregate it doesn’t have any meaning at all. In addition, many suggest that, while insider buying may be predictive at times, insider selling is not. Both of these positions, however, are contradicted by the data.
Insiders Are Sending a Pretty Clear Signal About the Stock Market (and moneyshow.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from moneyshow.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The following is an excerpt from a recent Market Comment featured on The Felder Report PREMIUM.
As most readers should be well aware, one of the things I monitor most closely is insider buying and selling. Nobody knows more about the bullish and bearish developments of a business and its valuation relative to those developments than the company’s top executives. Now some believe that, while insider activity may sometimes be a good indication of future price movements in individual stocks, in aggregate it doesn’t have any meaning at all. In addition, many suggest that, while insider buying may be predictive at times, insider selling is not. Both of these positions, however, are contradicted by the data.
Company insiders gifts of stock to charity are usually a telltale sign of a top in the price msn.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from msn.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Insider selling is alarmingly high and small-cap stocks are in the crosshairs MarketWatch 1/26/2021
Corporate insiders are more bearish today than they’ve been in more than a decade.
That’s bad news for the stock market, since it stands to reason and this is backed up by the data that insiders have greater insight into their companies’ prospects than the rest of us. Insiders include officers, directors and the largest shareholders. They are required to report more or less immediately to the SEC whenever they buy or sell shares of their companies’ stock, and many on Wall Street pay close attention to trends that emerge.