US Corporate Insiders Are Selling Stocks at a Near Record Pace(www.bloomberg.com)

40 pointsby pimienta8 hours ago5 comments

vivzkestrel5 hours ago
- dont have access to that article
- anyone wanna chime in and explain why?
- the war has surely been going on back and forth for a while now
- why suddenly start selling now?
- leopoldj4 hours ago
  The article states a few reasons. Mainly that the chip stocks "have rallied too far, too fast and spending on artificial intelligence has become excessive".
  Relevant facts: Corporate insiders sold $77.6 billion of stock during the first half of 2026, a 20% increase from the first half of 2025.
  - gruez4 hours ago
    >Relevant facts: Corporate insiders sold $77.6 billion of stock during the first half of 2026, a 20% increase from the first half of 2025.
    Is this adjusted for stock price? If you got 100 RSUs per year, and stock prices went up 20% compared to last year, you'd get "20% increase", even though nothing really changed and you're just selling whatever you got.
TitaRusell37 minutes ago
I will never forget that CEO in the Netherlands who sold her shares weeks before the IPO. At heavily reduced prices. At least someone knew the emperor was butt naked! She became the figurehead of the dot com bubble and the insane 1990s. All completely legal- some rich folks who lost not insignificant sums of money did unleash their lawyers but let's face it you can't have a stock market without fraud.
Oh and you have to be a stone cold psychopath. I swear she should have gotten an Oscar.
frogperson3 hours ago
For tech stocks, every July for like the last 10 years has been down. Aug and Sept always correct.
- rolymath3 hours ago
  What? QQQ has been up for 9 of the last 10 years in July.
dentemple6 hours ago
So should we all be shorting the market now??
- avgDev3 hours ago
  Nah. Just do dollar cost averaging. The market will drop but it will come back. It is impossible to predict how the market will move, unless you have insider knowledge or power to manipulate the markets.
Zsfe510asG5 hours ago
It is obvious. All indices have been pumped up to insane heights since late 2024. KOSPI is crashing because the memory manufacturers are priced for continued bubble orders books. Those orders cannot be sustained and the selloff started in Korea, just as it did in the 2000 bubble.
The press is still instructed to avoid the word "cyclical" in connection with hardware, but the insiders remember 2000 very well.
If you watch daytrading, stocks like SpaceX or Micron are pumped up shortly after every opening so the insiders can sell higher during the day.
The insiders also own the press and analysts, so they desperately still construct positive narratives.
- MarkusQ5 hours ago
  That's half the story.
  The other have is that the same press and analysts still desperately construct negative narratives (note, for example, the very story we're commenting on). The point isn't to pump the market up or to crash it (though there are clearly folks out there trying to do both); the real goal is to keep people milling about and keep the money sloshing around, which drives the turbines of finance.
  Your realtor makes money when you buy, they make money when you sell. Your lawyer makes money when you sue or when you get sued. Landscapers get paid to put plants in and to take plants out. The only thing they can't profit (much) from is inactivity.
  - elzbardico2 hours ago
    There's no need for a lot desperation to construct a really negative narrative about markets right now. It just takes a bit of math.
- deskamess4 hours ago
  > KOSPI is crashing because the memory manufacturers are priced for continued bubble orders books. Those orders cannot be sustained
  Could you explain what that means? Are they overbooking and will not be able to meet those particular projections? Would a single segment of one industry cause a reverberation throughout?