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.