Those looking for even more evidence that corporate executives are smelling bargains in the junior mining sector should consider this: Insider buying on the TMX Venture exchange is near a record high.

INK Research’s Venture indicator is at 715 per cent today, just 20 percentage points below its record peak of 735 per cent set on Oct. 27, 2008. That means there are more than seven stocks listed on the exchange with insider buying for every one seeing selling. It also marks a steep increase since early March, when the indicator was near 400 per cent.

Such a high level of buying interest among officers and directors within their own businesses in the resource sector has correctly foreshadowed a recovery in share prices in the past: That high point of nearly five years ago came about six weeks before the Venture market bottomed on Dec. 5, 2008, points out Ted Dixon, INK Research CEO.

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Here is an example of several companies I follow.  All these purchases were within the last 1-2 weeks.

First Majestic buying shares back:  http://canadianinsider.com/node/7?menu_tickersearch=fr

Pan American buying shares back:  http://canadianinsider.com/node/7?menu_tickersearch=PAA

Eldorado buying shares back: http://canadianinsider.com/node/7?menu_tickersearch=eld

Keith Barron purchased 4 million shares in U308: http://canadianinsider.com/node/7?menu_tickersearch=uwe

President of Exeter buying shares: http://canadianinsider.com/node/7?ticker=XRC

2 million shares purchased in Orezone: http://canadianinsider.com/node/7?ticker=ORE

Corvus Gold continues to have insider buying: http://canadianinsider.com/node/7?ticker=KOR

 

This values Lending Club at over 1.5 billion.  The story below.

 

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Investors including Google Inc are putting $125 million into Lending Club, a service that matches people seeking loans with people willing to make them, Lending Club said.

The cash is going to existing venture investors rather than into the company in a financing structure known as a secondary transaction, Lending Club Chief Executive Renaud Laplanche said in an interview. He declined to identify the investors who are cashing out.

Existing investor Foundation Capital is also among the latest buyers, bringing its total investment in the company to more than $50 million, a Foundation representative said in an email.

The transaction values Lending Club at $1.55 billion, Laplanche said, up from $550 million at the time of the company's last funding round almost a year ago.

Large-scale secondary market transactions, which allow employees and other existing investors to cash out their stakes, are becoming increasingly common among venture-backed companies.

One reason: many early investors are having to wait longer than in the past to see returns on their investments through initial public offerings. The median age of a venture-backed company at the time of its IPO is about nine years, according to the National Venture Capital Association, compared with about 5.5 years in the late 1990s.

Microblog Twitter and notetaking app Evernote are among the venture-backed companies that have tapped secondary markets.

Google's David Lawee, who oversees late-stage investments at the search-engine giant, will take an observer seat on Lending Club's board.

"We think there's a lot of alignment between the two companies," Laplanche said, citing Google's work letting small business owners advertise directly on Google, just as Lending Club connects lenders and borrowers directly. The companies will explore joint opportunities, he said, but were not in a position to announce anything yet.

Lending Club last raised funds in June 2012, when Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers invested $15 million and Morgan Stanley chairman emeritus John Mack invested $2.5 million. It has raised $102.8 million total.

The company is eyeing a 2014 initial public offering, Laplanche said, as long as market conditions remain favorable. He expects revenue of around $90 million this year.

Energy tech companies have a business model that's closer to Apple Inc. than Apache Corp. In other words, it's all about the new product. The products Dominick & Dominick Analyst James McIlree is excited about offer major benefits like improved geological mapping for oil and gas explorers, or electric grid safety for energy utilities. In an interview with The Energy Report, McIlree talks about his favorite companies in the energy tech space and how understanding product cycles can help investors time their buys.

A break of the lower trendline could produce a quick trade.  If its broken, we will probably see the GLD retest 135 - 136.

This is pretty self explanatory.  A trigger would be a breakout over the upper trendline with a stop a couple points below depending on your trading sytle.