Insider Buying Week 5-12-23 Prelude to Something but What?
Insiders are coming out in force to buy regional and community banks. Normally significant insider buys are met with a predictable market response, a positive bounce between 3%-5%. This is not…
Insider Buying Week 5-5-23 Banking Blood Bath is it time to Buy?
Insiders came out to play last week. It was not pretty, but insiders are bottom fishers, as a rule. They buy in force when prices are down when they perceive a bottom. Regional bank insiders were…
Insider Buying Week 4-21-23 Lithium Stocks Crash, Director buys more Lockheed Martin, and the Curious Case of Domo
Reuter's headline news Friday that Chile is nationalizing the vast lithium deposits sent Albermarle and the rest of the lithium economy into a tailspin. More than half of the estimated global lithium…
Insider Buying Week 4-14-23 The Fed stopped hiking rates even though they won’t acknowledge that.
There was next to nothing to write about regarding insider activity last week. We are in the heart of darkness regarding insider activity. This is how I describe the quarterly blackout period before…
Insider Buying Week 4-7-23
Chairman Powell's scheme to put the inflation genie back in the bottle is unraveling fast. He created a bank run last month, which according to Jamie Dimon, is far from over. The next crack in the…
Bye Bye Jay Time for Another Chair Insider Buying Week 3-24-23
We are deep in the darkness, the earnings blackout period in which corporate insiders are restricted from buying their own shares. It's a perfect time for short sellers to prey on the frazzled nerves…
One way this is not like 2008, Insiders are NOT Buying -Insider Buying Week 3-10-23
This is LIKE 2008, contrary to what you may have heard about the recent Silicon Valley Bank failure. Banks either don't want to pay competitive deposit rates or can't. Competing with Fed Chairman…
Hedge Fund Analysts Class 2nd Semester- a Word about Attendance
I have very flexible rules about work and participation in the Insiders Intern Analyst program. Still, one of them is non-negotiable, and I make that clear in the interview process. The main question…
The Fed has a Hammer but needs a Scalpel Insider Buying Week 2-24-23
It's a commonly held view amongst market strategists that the Fed follows interest rates, not determines them. You don't have to look very far to see plenty of evidence of that. It's a quiet…