David A. Taft

David A. Taft discloses dealings in Applied Minerals, Inc. to SEC (Form 4). The record holds 24 filings, for trades running from 5 January 2010 to 26 May 2015.

In open-market terms, that means 4 purchases worth €3.2M on one side and 6 sales worth €1.3M on the other. Purchases outweigh sales by €1.9M. Open-market purchases are the filings investors watch most closely, because the insider pays for the shares out of pocket. Other entries cover 5 share grants.

A typical purchase (the median) is worth €858k.

The record was last updated on 15 June 2015 with a transaction (€104k) in Applied Minerals, Inc. The most recent open-market purchase was published on 2 April 2014, 4,604 days ago. Typically, a trade is published a median of 3 days after it takes place. The legal deadline for a Form 4 is two business days after the transaction. A sale on its own says little: insiders also sell to pay tax, fund a purchase or diversify. Source: insider filings from SEC (Form 4). Past trades are no guide to future returns.