insiders

The January Effect and insider trading anomaly can combine for unusually profitable opportunities. As year-end approaches, it's a great time to scan the universe of equities for oversold, cheap stocks being accumulated by insiders. The January Effect refers to the tendency for stock prices -- especially...

MGM Resorts International (MGM) stock has collapsed 72% over the last three months -- losing about $13 billion of market value -- as the Coronavirus pandemic forces a shutdown of the U.S casino industry. MGM's 30 properties around the U.S.,including its trademark MGM Grand casino and...

To say that March of 2020 in the REIT sector has been ugly does a disservice to the word. The average month-to-date loss for the top ten stocks in the retail REIT sector was 46.82% through the 19th. The Coronavirus pandemic is forcing most Americans to hunker...

The insider trading anomaly was first formally identified by James Lorie and Victor Niederhoffer in a 1968 article Predictive and Statistical Properties of Insider Trading. Much has changed in the investment markets over the ensuing years. But the predictive properties of insider trading remain as relevant today...

Both insider trades and analyst recommendations contain information which may be useful for investors researching stocks. However, of the two information sources, one is much more trustworthy than the other. Everyday the financial media devotes major coverage to Wall Street analyst commentary on stocks....

Billionaire John Malone's insider buying may be rare, but when he does make a purchase, it pays to join him. On May 15, Malone along with two other Qurate Retail Inc. (QRTEA) insiders, bought over $14 million of the retailing and media stock at an average price...

The S&P 500 traded above its 200 day moving average last week for the first time since March 5. Back on March 23, at the bottom of the crash, the index was 28% below its 200 Day MA. The market has seen an amazing "bounce" since then....

I'm “done with fossil fuels." That's what Jim Cramer just said on CNBC's Squawk Box. Cramer compared fossil fuel companies to the stigmatized tobacco companies, saying oil stocks are in the “death knell phase.” But if that's true, I wonder why billionaire oil tycoon and hotelier Bob...

In June of 2008, Aubrey McClendon, the Chairman and CEO of Chesapeake Energy (NYSE:CHK) was riding high:  He was a superstar of the Oil and Gas world, a financial wizard who had started Chesapeake with a $50,000 stake in 1989, and grown the company into a behemoth with a market cap over $30 billion, the nation’s 2nd largest producer of natural gas after ExxonMobil.

Bill Gurley's Stitch Fix insider buying is his first ever as a corporate insider. Gurley bought $3.1 million of Stitch Fix, Inc. (SFIX) shares on the open market, increasing his personal stake by 25% to 755,000 shares. The tech dealmaker's purchases come as SFIX short interest has...