Insider Trading Seasonality

We carefully watched visitor statistics and were surprised to see that many people search for keywords like "insider seasonality."

The SIT project would like to share an interactive report with all visitors free of charge to dispel this myth. As you may see from the charts below, there is NO seasonality. Insiders don't tend to buy or sell in autumn or during a cold winter and vice versa in spring. There are no such correlations, and every company and its relationships with insiders are unique.

The charts were generated based on worldwide data without grouping by countries.

We want to emphasize that there's no magic chart that explains everything happening in the global stock market from an insider's perspective.

You can find valuable information (a certain trend) on the following charts for a specific year, within a certain industry, and among companies with specific capitalizations.

For example, during sector rotation, interesting patterns show up in the Energy and Utilities sectors. You can see these patterns in the charts below.

FX rates from the European Central Bank were utilized to recalculate amounts from markets not denominated in USD.

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You'll notice a common trend where the number of 'buy' transactions in a given month exceeds the number of 'sell' transactions, yet the total amount of 'sell' transactions is considerably higher. This can be attributed to the distribution of transaction amounts, as illustrated on this page: Transaction Amount Distribution.