Tag Archives: tracking insider moves

Insider Trading Update: What insiders are telling us

Lots of interesting posts regarding recent insider buying and selling activity.

5 stocks with blizzard like insider purchases (Insider Monkey)
Insider Weekend (SINLetter)
Biderman of TrimTabs still doesn’t know who’s buying stocks (Distressed Volatility)
Weekend Update (Buy/Sell Signal Generator)
3 investment traps for 2011 (Yahoo Finance)

WSJ on Insider Trading (video)

Allan Murray runs a good interview with Joel Cohen, a former federal prosecutor and insider trading expert.

Good points about duty, hedge funds, insider investing and the gray areas surrounding implicit duties for confidentiality.
[ht: Finance Professor]

How to trade like an insider: Building an insider trading portfolio

Over on Tradestreaming, I just posted one of the strategies from my book.  Specifically, research points to an interesting, profitable anomaly in the trades made by corporate insiders.  Building a strategy by mimicking a subset of some of these moves has proven significantly outperform the markets.
Not all insider trades are created equal and investors need [...]

Make some loot by following insiders and debt covenant violations

In my book, Tradestreaming, I devote a whole chapter to Following  Insiders’ Moves (learn more about my legal insider trading strategy).  In essence, the activities of corporate insiders are very instructive for investors who follow them in a variety of scenarios.  There are proven strategies to mirror corporate insiders’ investment moves (many of which are [...]

The TRUTH of Insider Trading a la Joshua Brown

I liked Joshua Brown’s Insider Buying/Selling: The Collected Wisdom of a Thousand Heartbreaks (see it also posted at the CSMonitor with the toned-down title: ‘Debunking myths…’)
There has been a lot of talk during this rally that the insiders — in the aggregate — were selling stock all the way.  The Pragmatic Capitalist has done a good job [...]

The anti-Galleon model: 4 good resources to insider trade — legally

Picking up on recent theme showcasing 6 top resources for following top hedge fund managers (piggyback investing) and the web’s best stock screens, I’d like to spend a little ink on bubbling up the best resources to track insider moves.
Research (much good work has been written about in Investor Intelligence from Insider Trading by finance [...]

Insiders vs. Outsiders: Why Raj Rajaratnam is no Martha Stewart

Martha Stewart was a billionaire in 2001.  She floated her own media firm, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, on the New York Stock Exchange in 1999 and witnessed her stock price double just on the first day it began trading.  Her T.V. shows combined with magazines and a home furnishing line were just hitting their stride.  [...]