In nine pages this paper examines how corporate insiders know about sales activities and purchase of stock and whether or not this ability to manipulate prices is a valid consideration for the investor. Five sources are cited in the bibliography.
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make the most money. There are the lucky guessers - for example, one investor paid money for stock of the MGM Grand Hotel shortly after the Las Vegas-based property burned
in a 1980 fire. The investor sold the stock eight years later for 30 times what she paid for it. Then there is pure luck; another investor who purchased stock
in drug company G.D. Searle did so about a year prior to the release of aspartame, the companys generic name for the sweetener, NutriSweet. Both of these instances were, however,
luck of the draw. For most hard-core investors, more is needed on which to place money. Its been suggested that corporate insiders
are the key to learning about the performance of a stock. Insiders, its said, can actually manipulate stock prices by purchasing the shares when the prices are low, because they
know what future earnings will be. They then sell the stock after substantial gains have been achieved, and before the "profit-takers" climb on board to dump their own shares.
The question is, does keeping a close eye on insiders provide a key to most investors in terms of when to buy and
sell stocks? This paper will attempt to prove that the answer to the question is "yes," but with a qualification. The investor needs to know how to "read" the insiders
actions in order to determine when the time is to buy and sell. The concept of insider trading vs. trading by insiders
The basic term for executives employed by the company, at least as it pertains to stock purchase, is "insider." The reason why the executive is the insider is because he/she