Most Recent Insider Selling to Buying Ratio: 82:1

[AllentownJake]

You would think that insiders would finally change their tune after almost a year of straight line gains in the market. Think again. The most recent insider trading data from finviz indicates that insider sellling outpaces buying by a ratio of 82! In the most recent data set, $11.6 million in stock was purchased by insiders, while a whopping $957 million was sold. And somehow pundits are still spinning this mass orchestrated sell into the bid by those in the know as a bull market.

http://www.zerohedge.com/article/most-recent-insider-selling-buying-ratio-821

The owners are selling their shares. :shrug:

[SpiralHawk]

1. "You nosy proles can just move along. Nothing to see here. Smirk." - The FatCats

[Deja Q]

2. After Enron, nobody should be surprised at that.

[aquart]

3. Yeah. This ain't over.

[rucky]

4. IIRC, you called this

when the dow broke 10K

[dmallind]

5. Sure - basic profit taking

Many stock options come with deadlines on when they can be exercised. Why would they not exercise those options when the market has gone up? I just sold some of my company stock too - nothing to do with expectations of it going down, just had a window open and could make some nice chunk of change.

Hsaving said that I'm not all that bullish on equities overall. I suspect future gains will be slow. A lot of optimism is already built in, so continuing good news does little to drive upticks. There is a reason that equity markets are leading indicators of recovery. The stock market gains of recent months are now being borne out by improvements in orders, reductions in inventory, decent earnings overall, better housing data and of course last of all will be jobs.