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1. Insider Trends Are Added to Insider Trades Page
As we reported before, the aggregated insider trading activities can serve as a very good indicator for market predictions. This was proved true again in the last market crash from the fall of 2008 to the spring of 2009, when the ratio of insider buying over insider selling jumped dramatically from the regular levels. For details, please see the chart below. The ratio and the corresponding market ETF (SPY) is drawn to show the correlations. Clearly extremely active insider buying was observed from the fall of 2008 to the spring of 2009. Lately we observe this activity increasing again as the market declined.
2. Insider Trend at Different Sectors Added
In the new “Insider Trend” page, we display the trends of insider trades activities across different industries. The sectors with the most active insider buying activities over the past 30 days are displayed first.
Therefore, you can check out not only the overall insider trading trend, but also the trend in different sectors.
3. Drill Down Into Different Sectors/Industries for Insider Trades
Now that you know which sectors/industries are most active with insider buys, you want to check out the details. The Industry and Market Cap jump menus we just added allow you to check out what stocks are bought or sold within the industry. These jump menus are also available for CEO Buys and CFO Buys page. Whenever you make changes to the selections of sector/industry, market cap, or the positions of the insider, the corresponding trends charts are displayed.
4. Visualized Insider Trading History
By clicking on any lines of the insider trades page, a visualized insider trading history is displayed. As example, clicking on the line on LGL, the area below the row expands, and a chart like below is displayed.
This chart shows that how insiders act with regard to stock prices. Some insiders are certainly smarter than others when it comes to buying their own company stocks. By looking at the insider buying history, and check the record of each insider’s trades can give us a better idea whether the insider trades under study are important or not.
5. GuruFocus Valuation Charts Now Support iPad/iPhone
GuruFocus Valuation Chart displays the price history of WalMart relative to its historical valuation bands. Valuation bands displayed:
a. P/E band
b. P/S Band
c. P/B Band
The bands are drawn based on historical low and high values of the valuations ratios. In the case of WMT, if the 10-year historical low P/E is 10.8, and the 10-year historical high is 42.2, we draw two lines. One for P/E=10.8, the other for P/E=42.2. Because earnings have been growing for WMT, the lines move up vs. time.
Similar bands are drawn for P/S and P/B. The earnings, sales and book value are trailing-twelve-month data.
Each item in the legend of the charts is clickable. Clicking them will hide and display the corresponding lines in the chart.
6. GuruFocus Financial Charts Now Support iPad/iPhone
Now the financial charts are ready on iPad and iPhone. They also work on other tablets computers. For systems that support Flash, the charts will be in flash format. Otherwise, the charts automatically switch to Javascript format, which will render on Apple (AAPL) products.
Ever since we started in 2004, we have been creating new features all through these years. These are just some of the features we added lately. Earlier features are described in “What Is in the GuruFocus Premium Membership?” Our Premium features are now being used by thousands of analysts from mutual funds and hedge funds. Some of the Gurus we track, including Mohnish Pabrai, Jeff Auxier, Francis Chou are our subscribers themselves.
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- Oct 18, 2011 at 11:29 PM
