Insiders Selling At A Furious Pace

ricklbert

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May 6th, 2009 in Breaking News

Insiders Selling At A Furious Pace.

Last week there was a report that corporate insiders were selling at a faster rate that at any time since October, 2007 — right near the top of the market.

Well, the market’s only raged higher since then and insider selling is only getting more intsense.

The Pragmatic Capitalist has aggregated recent insider transactions. As you can see from his data collected (unfortunately the tables won’t fit here, do click over), insider sales dwarf insider buys both in frequency and in volume. Insiders are selling their stocks in multi-million dollar blocks, while the few buys are much smaller.

If nothing else, it means that a lot of executives probably saw the abyss (a violent drop from the ranks of the wealthy to poor) and want to de-risk to ensure that no matter what happens to their stock, they’ve taken some skin out of the game.

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Insiders Selling At A Furious Pace
 

ricklbert

UHF JUNKIE
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WASHINGTON — Two enforcement lawyers at the Securities and Exchange Commission are being investigated by federal prosecutors and the FBI for possible insider-trading violations, according to a report from the SEC’s inspector general.

The criminal investigation, which was disclosed to SEC Chairman Mary Schapiro in a March 3 memo, came about after SEC Inspector General H. David Kotz conducted his own investigation into the matter and referred it to criminal authorities after discovering suspicious trading activity.
 
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