The Insider's Dossier

While many Americans think that all insider trading is a crime, most on Wall Street know that legal insider trading is what turns can turn average investors into millionaires. Not only is it legal when following proper protocol, but Packer helps you to decode the Wall Street lingo, so that even the novice could easily follow corporate insiders for returns that significantly outperform the market year over year. In easy-to-understand terms, he describes: .The difference between legal and illegal insider trading .How to evaluate insider activity in order to optimize your investment advantage .The key to swiftly decoding SEC filing forms for up-to-the-minute insider activity .Understanding and utilizing web-based, technical analysis tools .How to separate key insiders from the average corporate investor .Investing beyond simple trades, clearly and concisely explaining the ins and outs of options trading, and much more. . . Packer reveals that the world's most valuable storehouse of financial information is open to the public, and its contents are freely available. Those who know how to unlock the data within can handily beat the market year after year. This storehouse isn't the U.S. Treasury or the New York Stock Exchange, it's the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and the data they house vividly tells the most important financial moves of those in the know. Author Andrew Packer decodes the secrets and exposes the market beating insights that fund managers and Wall Street insiders have taken advantage of for years. The key to understanding legal insider trading that Packer discloses is that "it's so important not to follow what executives say, but rather to follow what they do with their money. I'm not talking about stock options (which many companies dole out like candy, costing them nothing), but cold hard cash. So...the goal: finding companies where the corporate insiders are personally buying their stock in significant quantities." Your aha moment!