Retail Investors Keep Buying as Insiders Keep Selling

Thanks to inflation, a penny stock today is considered any stock trading under $5 per share. That’s also the price where institutional investors are cut off from owning a stock – it’s just too low a price and it’s too easy for big money to buy shares.

But that isn’t stopping retail investors from buying sub-$5 stocks – and now, true penny stocks trading under $1.00.

Today, a whopping 47% of all market volume is in sub-$1 stocks:

As mentioned in this morning’s Swan Dive, Regencell Bioscience started the year as a penny stock, trading as low as $0.09, split-adjusted.

It’s now been the best market performer year-to-date – even without any positive corporate developments to point out – just pure retail buying. (We also strongly urged you not to buy the stock.)

In the meantime, company insiders are now picking up the pace of their sales:

Of course, insiders have many reasons to sell, from putting a kid through college, paying for a messy divorce – or just the good old-fashioned opinion that their shares are overvalued.

These two trends suggest that retail investors are getting ebullient, while the insiders who know their company’s value inside and out are hitting the cash register.

~ Addison

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