Insider Data - Week Ending 05/22/2010

The volatility went a notch up during the week. It creates opportunity for traders but tells that investors are not sure what direction the market will go. So what should an ordinary investor do? Playing safe is the safest thing. Quoting from an eminent Harvard Professor, there is always a horse race between greed and fear in the business world. Market seems to be fearful right now. Will greed return next week?

Top transactions for the week are shown in the table below. TCRD had big insider buys probably because of the result of recent public offering. There was some usual selling by insiders from MSFT and other big companies.




Rolling sell/buy ratio by insiders was skewed a bit because of big transactions by insiders from TCRD. Overall it was a bearish week.



Oil & Gas Pipelines showed some leadership in the top industry level insider buys. Other key ones are also shown in the table below.

Insider Data - Week ending 05/15/2010

Interesting come back by the market last week. There is some level of cautious resilience in the market that it keeps coming back from the brink. The increased volatility is a sign of nervousness though and hopefully the market will settle down.

Not a big week as far as insider buying goes. Top transactions are shown below. Major companies like GOOG, JBHT and busy diversifying or at least taking some profits.



Not too good a week for insider buys. The sell/buy ratio has soared las week.



Investment Brokerage making the roster for major industry level buys was kind of a surprise. But next four are the same as from the last week.

Insider Data - Week ending 05/08/2010

Another Interesting week. Welcome back the gut wrenching volatility and uncertainty. Seems like people are finally booking some profits. Nothing substantial changed in the world that would cause this to happen. Rest is all chatter.

Some of the top transactions are shown below. Some big name CEOs found the opportunity to 'diversify'. Notable were AMZN and DNDN. Other significant top transactions were from GOOG and FSLR.



The Sell to buy ratio was quite favorable as it normally happens during the weeks when the market gets hammered, insiders tend to snap up some of their company stock.



Pollution and Treatment Controls industry took the top spot. Possibly the spill in the gulf might have some thing to do with it.


Good luck with next week. It will come handy.

Insider Data - Week ending 05/01/2010

An interesting week with GS people getting grilled in the congress. It seemed like highly politicized event with motives quite obviously visible. And then Europe is in disarray because of Greece and now Portugal and Spain. The market seems to have run into a wall and treading with extreme caution is the order of each trading day.

Following table shows the top insider buys for the week. (Click on the image to view larger image).



The rolling sell to buy ratio seems like was pretty good although absolute value of sales and buys by insiders have gone down. May be wait and watch approach is prominent right now.



Trends for industry are displayed as 2 week data report. It still is showing the impact of M&A activity that took place last week.



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