agree with MikeTee and one mor

agree with MikeTee and one more point to add.

From a basic investment principles perspective, employees should always sell a lot of their company stock. They are fully invested in the company with their time and their work - and they are getting lots of income from it. They usually have invested or locked up shares also. So they should be selling in order to diversify, buy a house, or whatever.

Insiders Sell Stock. Their Companies Buy. It's Not a Good Sign

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The former is a finance professor at the University of Michigan and one of academia&#39;s leading experts on interpreting the behavior of insiders. The latter is an analyst at InsiderSentiment.</p><p>Among all companies with any insider transactions so far in October, just 13% have experienced more insider buying than insider selling. That&#39;s the lowest insider buy ratio in at least a decade, according to the Seyhuns&#39; analysis.</p><p>Consider Nvidia. Over the past three months, insiders have sold more than $700 million of the company&#39;s stock and bought none, according to Yahoo Finance data. Yet the company is in fifth place in a ranking of companies based on the greatest dollar amount of repurchase announcements this year, according to Jeffrey Yale Rubin, president of Birinyi Associates.</p><p>In contrast to the insiders&#39; stinginess in their personal portfolios is their eagerness to purchase their companies&#39; shares with corporate cash. 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