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’Insiders are buying at fastest pace since May 2008
Everyone is selling and yet insiders have stopped offloading their equities and have begun buying instead. Buying at the fastest pace since May 2008, no less.
According to Trimtabs, an investment research firm,
ETF investors mistimed the commodity correction (again)
Here’s an interesting observation regarding this month’s commodity sell-off.
It comes from short-selling data firm, Data Explorers, and it concerns commodities ETFs:
The other theme running through this week has been further drama in some of the commodity markets,
Trimtabs on the US lost decade
We were just wondering about what might have scared investors off equities this year.
And so it is that TrimTabs, a US investment research firm, offers us at least a partial explanation on Tuesday.
According to the company,
TrimTabs vs the Bureau of Labor Statistics (Round 2)
Last Friday’s non-farm payroll numbers provided the market with the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ seasonally-adjusted revisions.
For US investment research firm TrimTabs, which publishes its own competing jobs estimates,
TrimTabs on that ‘US government-rigged stock market’
FT Alphaville loves a good conspiracy theory, so here’s one to kick off Wednesday morning.
It’s the TrimTabs report referenced in this morning’s 6am Cut, questioning whether the US government is secretly propping up stock markets.
On outperforming the US Bureau of Economic Analysis
On Wednesday, FT Alphaville received the following press release from investment research firm Trimtabs regarding the veracity of official US job numbers (our emphasis):
TrimTabs Estimates U.S. Economy Lost 255,000,
Trimtabs: “Insider buying is non-existent”
The issue of insider selling has been covered a lot in the media the past few months. The trend first came to light in a significant way as far back as May this year — but failed to dampen the equity rally over the summer.
The problem with non-farm payroll numbers
Yes, everything is wonderful, stocks have been rallying, and the pitter patter of people going back to work is supposedly to be demonstrated in Friday’s US non-farm payroll figures.
Reuters puts the consensus figure at a loss of 320,000 jobs in July,
US hedge fund withdrawals hit record $43bn
Investors pulled at least $43bn from US hedge funds in September amid market turmoil, according to data from TrimTabs Investment Research. The unprecedented withdrawals come as hedge funds work to prevent far bigger redemptions by the end of the year,