Research for the last 60 years shows that insiders are consistently the most informed of all traders in the equities market

Over the last 10 years, you could have significantly improved your reward-to-risk ratio by using the Insider Sentiment Tracker compared to just passively investing in a Russell 2000 ETF (red line).

By buying the Russell 2000 when insiders were also buying, the return went from 67% to 130% while the risk was reduced by over 40% (blue line).

But buying the Russell 2000 when insiders were selling was a sure-fire way of crushing your portfolio (green line).

Full write up of this calculation available on the blog

During the COVID period, insider "buy" signals preceded large increases in the stock market. Later, insider "sell" signals marked the top of the 2021 bull run.

In this time of high uncertainty, these signals would have allowed you to buy in March 2020 before the rise and sell before the fall in 2022.

Here you can see that when the stock market fell in March 2020 due to fear, insiders were not scared.

In fact, they started buying their own firms' stock in record numbers, signaling that a rebound was imminent. They were proven correct as the stock market started to rise rapidly just the following month.

How valuable would this forward-looking signal have been to you at the time?