Here’s Another Important Bearish Indicator: Company Insiders Sold Big Into Major Market Rebound

ByBrad Lamensdorf

Here’s Another Important Bearish Indicator: Company Insiders Sold Big Into Major Market Rebound. As the insider transactions ratio chart below shows, major selling by company insiders has moved this indicator’s market forecast from bullish to bearish. The Thompson Reuters chart shows the ratio of insider sales to buys at 44. That’s well into bearish territory….

Smart Money/Dumb Money Confidence Spread Flashing Stock Market Sell Signals

ByBrad Lamensdorf

Smart Money/Dumb Money Confidence Spread Flashing Stock Market Sell Signals. SentimenTrader measures sentiment of so-called “smart and dumb” investors by a complex formula that differentiates the smart from the dumb by how they normally trade.  As you can see from the chart below there is a widening spread between recent optimism of dumb investors and…

Watch Out: Companies are Flooding the Market With Hundreds of  Billions of Dollars in New Shares

ByBrad Lamensdorf

Watch Out: Companies are Flooding the Market With Hundreds of  Billions of Dollars in New Shares.  For the last 10 years public companies  have been the major support for stock market prices by buying back stock and shrinking the market float. Logically, the less shares that are available, the more they are bid higher by…

Low Put/Call Ratio is Indicating the Stock Market is in Dangerous Territory

ByBrad Lamensdorf

Low Put/Call Ratio is Indicating the Stock Market is in Dangerous Territory. One of the most reliable contrarian indicators of future market direction is the put/call ratio.   That’s because options buyers are wrong most of the time.  The present low ratio is warning us to be very careful because most investors have become so bullish….