Insider Buying Week 12-01-23 AI will Improve everything but the Tesla pickup truck
FOMO (fear of missing out in a year when the S&P is up over 20%) is in full swing. One thing not making the headlines is the market is essentially where it was two years ago, with investors on a…
Insider Buying Week 11-24-23 Are Investors the Turkey this Thanksgiving?
Trying to read the tea leaves and glean some information from insider buying patterns is seldom obvious. Directors are generally required to own a percentage of their board compensation in the…
Insider Buying Week 11-10-23 Another Week of the Impossible Possibility
Barron's magazine cover read, "Clean Energy Stocks have collapsed," but it's not just clean energy. It's all energy. The fossil fuel kind, traditional energy, continued its dismal fall performance…
Insider Buying Week 11-03-23 Insider Buying offers Clues as to where Bargains might Await
The difference between the 10-year Treasury Bond yield and the S&P 500 dividend yield is the largest it's been since 2007. The spread between interest earned on Treasury Bills and dividends…
You Really Want to Know What's Wrong with this Market? Insider Buying Week 10-27-23
$OXYLast week, I had two conversations with astute market watchers, one a long-time successful UBS financial wealth manager and the other, a close personal friend who bought the second charity lunch…
Insider Buying Week 10-20-23 - Next week may be the spookiest in some time.
So far, 3rd quarter earnings haven't done anything to dispel the gloom. The S&P 500 lost 2.39% last week. That's hardly a surprise. What's a bigger surprise is that the market is hanging on to…
Insider Buying Week 10-13-23 The Black Swan has been Spotted
The market bounced off deeply sold, technically oversold conditions. Now we're in earnings season, and much if not everything, will hinge on that. Of course, a broadening war is on everyone's mind.…
Insider Buying Week 10-06-23 Israel at War while the Fed Reserve Fights the American Consumer and Stock Market
The market reached deeply technically oversold conditions. Bullish divergence RSI was signaling a reversal. I would have said this reversal has room to run, but the war in Israel may reverse…
Insider Buying Week 9-29-23 as the Bar for Insider Buying is Rising
You can't say you were not warned. I've been clear with my thoughts about the misguided policy of the Federal Reserve raising rates to thwart inflation. Chairman Powell morphed chameleon-like into a…
Insider Buying Week 9-22-23 The Setup Reminds me of the October Crash of 1987
This week's blog post is especially brief. It's not because brevity is the soul of wit, either. Insiders are in the third-quarter blackout window; even if they wanted to buy, most cannot. I…