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Insider sellers have been noticeably absent for most of the month of October. Nothing like a good old-fashioned stock market rally to get the sellers out from the shadows.
Insider buying isn’t always bullish, as sometimes investors are adding to positions that have gone down in price, but it usually signals things are on the right track at a company.
One thing that went away fast when the market was in free-fall mode as the quarter started was insider selling, and who can blame them?
It made sense to see insiders buying stock when the market plunged 7% , but after one of the best weeks for investors in the market since 2013, insider buyers were still out in force.
LiveDeal saw its shares take a handy jump in trading Tuesday following a vote of confidence from its chief executive.
With the market very close to a full correction this past week, it should come as very little surprise that most insiders looking to sell stock chose to wait.
Nothing like the biggest market sell-off in years to get insiders' taste buds warmed up to do some buying.
For insiders and 10% holders, sell-offs make initiating or adding to positions that much better. They certainly took advantage of it this week.
Often, when markets are selling off hard, bids from those looking to buy stocks are thin and very hard to find, especially for large blocks of stocks.
Often insiders looking to buy pounce to add to their holdings on a bad week. That was the case this week.
Market volatility jumped this past week to the highest level in almost two months and insiders were selling, taking some money off the table.
GoPro saw its shares sell off on Thursday after a less than normal news release of a partial lockup restriction.
Here is this past week's notable insider selling, including in shares of Cisco Systems and UnitedHealth Group.
In a week that saw multiple moves of over a percentage point up and down, insiders looking to buy stock still were very busy adding to or initiating positions.
At 24/7 Wall Street we keep a close watch on insider selling and report it weekly to our readers.