1.   Four other officers sold stock as well, according to Washington Service, which tracks insider buying and selling.

2.   Getting back to Russell, you see that quite a few insiders bought relatively small numbers of shares on the open market in recent months.

3.   Options, which grant the right to buy shares at a specific price, make it cheaper for insiders to buy stock.

4.   So does Nejat Seyhun, a University of Michigan finance professor, who just completed a study on the way stocks perform when insiders buy and sell.

5.   Shopko sells at a modest multiple to earnings and insiders have been buying the stock.

6.   Some traders were encouraged when insiders, headed by Dr. Norman Payson, the chief executive, recently bought Oxford stock.

7.   So has Nejat Seyhun, a University of Michigan finance professor, who just completed a study on the way stocks perform when insiders buy and sell.

8.   The practice of tracking what insiders buy and sell has been around for many years.

9.   Three insiders bought shares ahead of the rally.

10.   Under company rules, insiders can buy or sell stock for about a month beginning three days after earnings are announced.