{"id":315,"date":"2006-11-12T00:30:39","date_gmt":"2006-11-12T05:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/tutorial\/action-of-insiders\/"},"modified":"2006-12-30T02:35:19","modified_gmt":"2006-12-30T07:35:19","slug":"action-of-insiders","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/tutorial\/action-of-insiders\/","title":{"rendered":"Action of Insiders"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>Nobody knows more about a company than its executives.&nbsp; So, it&#8217;s very important to track their buying and selling habits to get a sense of how they feel about the company&#8217;s future prospects.<\/p>\n<p><strong><font size=\"4\">Insider Buying and Selling<\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Insider selling here and there is nothing to be alarmed about as there are many reasons why insiders sell their shares.&nbsp; However, consistent selling by a large number of insiders is reason to be cautious. <font size=\"2\"><\/font><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Insider buying is much more positive than insider selling is negative.&nbsp; Insiders aren&#8217;t are going to risk capital if they don&#8217;t think the price of the stock is going to rise.&nbsp; Buying by several insiders in large quantities is a good indication that good news is around the corner.&nbsp;&nbsp; In fact, their are trading strategies devoted to insider buying that do quite well.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><font size=\"4\">Management Ownership<\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>When management owns a significant portion of a company, they have a much greater vested interest in seeing the company succeed and ultimately, seeing the the price of the stock rise (this will depend on the size of the company)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Look for management ownership of 10% or more<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><font size=\"4\">Company Buybacks<\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>The company buys back its own shares from the marketplace<\/p>\n<p>\n    <\/li>\n<li>\n<p>This decreases the supply of shares and indicates that the company feels the stock is undervalued and often results in a rising stock price. <\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/tutorial\/reading-the-charts\/\"><font size=\"4\">Continue On to&nbsp;Reading the Charts ::::: &gt;<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nobody knows more about a company than its executives.&nbsp; So, it&#8217;s very important to track their buying and selling habits to get a sense of how they feel about the company&#8217;s future prospects. Insider Buying and Selling Insider selling here and there is nothing to be alarmed about as there are many reasons why insiders &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/tutorial\/action-of-insiders\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Action of Insiders<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":286,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"bottom_thingies.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-315","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/315\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}