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Very little to show for a month of solid market performance. Breaking the market down by capitalization yields some interesting results.

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September was a horrible month for the stock market, but now is not the time to be selling stocks. We believe a market bottom is close at hand, and this month’s “Inside The Stock Market” section presents several of our “big picture”, historical market studies to provide support for this belief.

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Consumer confidence levels have sunk to five year lows. Could this be a bullish omen for the markets?

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The factor measuring “Big Block Insider (Dollar)” transactions is now rated positive.

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We have been taking the opportunity each month to highlight a portion of our groups’ insider buying and selling scores. This month, we are presenting the groups with the best insider scores.

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In prior issues, we have presented those equity groups that had been displaying the best readings in terms of insider selling/buying. Several clients have expressed an interest in seeing those groups with the most significant levels of insider selling. The following table presents the ten groups with the most pervasive insider selling.

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During the last few months, we have been looking at the Insider Selling and Buying among various broad sectors and have also recently been presenting those specific equity industry groups that currently have the best scores based on the insider patterns of selling and buying.

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During the last few months, we have been looking at the Insider Selling and Buying among various broad sectors and last month decided to present those specific equity industry groups that currently have the best scores based on the insider patterns of selling and buying.

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Best looking groups based on current Insider Buying Selling patterns include: Gas Utilities, Aluminum, Brewers and Auto Manufacturers.

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At the market lows, the Tech insiders while not net buyers clearly slowed their aggressive selling.

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An examination of Financial groups with respect to insider selling/buying. At the extremes, this tool (which is employed in our GS Scores) works pretty well.

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A look at the Insider Selling patterns of several Health Care related groups. As with Energy groups, there is some evidence that Insiders’ transactions can be useful in identifying tops and bottoms in specific industry areas.

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Answering client questions on the economic recovery, bull market upside, valuations, Main Street and what could go wrong?

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Recent selling by corporate Insiders is not as bad as you are being told!

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Despite the recent rise in net selling over the past 5 months, we still view recent buy signals in Q4-2002 and Q1-2003 as bullish for the stock market.

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While the recent spike in insider selling has been well documented by the media as an ominous sign for stocks, the YTD level of net selling is down significantly from recent years.

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We view recent buy signals in Q4-2002 and Q1-2003 as a bullish indicator for the stock market. In the past, these “buy” signals have provided a timely indication that stock market performance would improve going forward.

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The decline in insider selling this year is a very encouraging sign for the stock market.

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The latest 10-week reading of 0.27% has risen back into the normal zone after spending six weeks in bullish territory.

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The latest reading is well into bullish territory and is the most positive reading on this indicator since the first quarter of 1995.

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We would view a new buy signal as a bullish confirmation of the previous buy signal (registered October 30th).

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Through the end of 2002, reported big block net sales totaled $24 billion, compared to net selling of $40 billion in 2001 and $72 billion in 2000.

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You may notice we have raised the buy and sell zone going back to 1997. The reason for this adjustment becomes pretty clear when you look at how the dollar volume of big block net selling has been trending upward since 1997.

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Latest 10-week reading of 0.29% remains in the normal range of net selling territory.

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The most recent sell signal (registered June 26th) proved to be very timely in retrospect, with the S&P 500 falling a big 14% in the four weeks that followed.

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The most recent sell signal (registered June 26th) proved to be very timely in retrospect.

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This is the second sell signal registered in the last six weeks.

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The latest 10-week reading has moved back into the upper end of normal range, after registering a sell signal in previous week.

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Insider selling on the rise, but no sell signal yet.

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Remains in normal historical range.

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Remains in normal historical range.

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Remains within the “normal” historical range for net selling.

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Insider block measures now moving down toward bullish territory…..but not there yet.

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The latest 10-week reading declined a big 48% from the previous month end, and has fallen to the lowest level of insider net selling since late-1998.

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Early in June, it appeared that big block selling was on the decline. But in the three months since, heavy selling has resumed.

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Early in June, it appeared that big block selling was on the decline. But in July and August, selling has resumed at a furious pace.

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Selling volume steps up in July.

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Early in June, it appeared that big block selling was on the decline. But in recent weeks it appears that heavy selling has resumed once again.

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The latest 10-week reading fell 16% from the previous week, but the average remains above historical selling extremes.

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Despite stock price corrections in the last year, significant net selling continues among the “smart money”.

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