US Corporate Insiders Are Selling Stocks at a Near Record Pace

vivzkestrel•about 3 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?

leopoldj•about 1 hour 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.

gruez•35 minutes 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.

Zsfe510asG•about 2 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.

MarkusQ•about 2 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.

deskamess•36 minutes 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?

dentemple•about 3 hours ago

So should we all be shorting the market now??

avgDev•10 minutes 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.

US Corporate Insiders Are Selling Stocks at a Near Record Pace

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