by Asif Suria

Insider buying dropped nearly in half with insiders purchasing $21.26 million of their stock last week compared to $40.11 million in the week prior. Selling increased with insiders selling $1.94 billion of stock last week compared to $1.11 billion in the week prior.

Sell/Buy Ratio: The insider Sell/Buy ratio is calculated by dividing the total insider sales in a given week by total insider purchases that week. The adjusted ratio for last week increased to 91.2. In other words, insiders sold more than 91 times as much stock as they purchased. The Sell/Buy ratio this week compares unfavorably with the prior week, when the ratio stood at 27.77.

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by Nick Simpson, Forex-FX-4X

• Euro/dollar experienced a strong move back down towards the midpoint of the recent range on Wednesday after finding resistance at the 50% retrace of the last major leg lower from 1.3709 – 1.2744.
• This move lower came after price broke above the 16/4/13 1.3200 daily high, trapping fresh longs, and moved to the highest point seen since late February prior to the drop lower.
• The downside move has found support at an area comprised of the 200 SMA (simple moving average) and ascending trend line around 1.3040.

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by Mike Ber, Forex Alerts

(This article was originally published by Zentrader.ca)

The following is a special weekend report from ForexAlerts.ca recapping the major pairs they cover, how they traded them this past week, and what they look forward next week. They recently launched their service and are offering a 50% discount for a limited time. To learn more about currencies and take advantage of this offer click here.

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Money Morning Article of the Week

by David Zeiler, Associate Editor, Money Morning

Not only is a bond market crash inevitable, but it will hit sooner than many think - by 2015 or 2016 at the latest, according to Michael Pento, president of Pento Portfolio Strategies.

Pento said of the bond market in an interview with The Street -

"It's the most overpriced, over-owned, oversupplied market in the history of American economics."

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by Chris Ebert, Zentrader

For more than a year now, I have posted periodic updates on the performance of several option trading strategies here at zentrader. These updates were intended to give traders an edge in the market, not only by showing which option strategies are currently profitable and which should be avoided, but how the options themselves can help predict future trends in the stock market.

Stocks and Options at a Glance

Beginning next week, I will begin publishing a brand new, re-designed series of option updates. The most exciting change in the new updates will be a new chart entitled “Stocks and Options at a Glance”. As the name implies, this new chart will allow readers to view the current state of the stock market as well as the performance of nearly every common option strategy, in a single glance.

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