If you’re a corporate “insider” such as an officer, director, or other certain employees, your purchases and sales of stock must be reported to the SEC in order to reduce illegal insider trading. Technically, an insider is not supposed to trade if they have “material nonpublic information” when making the purchase or sale. But still, who would know better?
Therefore, it’s interesting to see how insider trading activity as a whole by comparing the amount of shares being bought and sold during all this volatility, and then compare that with the market. See the graph below compiled in this CNN Money article:
Insiders loaded up overall during the panicky months of February and March, and then seemed to sell off a bit in happy August. I wouldn’t necessarily draw conclusions from this, but it is definitely food for thought!
