Chairman Buys $553K Worth of Enterprise Products LP

Editor's note: There are only eight records in the purchase table, due to the slow filing period.

NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Which insiders are selling and buying chunks of stocks?

Below are lists of the top 10 open-market insider purchases and sales filed at the Securities and Exchange Commission Thursday as ranked by dollar value. Company executives and directors are in the best position to assess the attractiveness of their firms' shares, and here is how many of them are voting their wallets! Please note, however, that these are factual lists, not buy and sell recommendations. Dollar value is only one metric to assess the importance of an insider transaction.

Enterprise Products LP (EPD) Duncan Dan L CB,DIR, BO 19,500 $553,410 Homeland Security Capital (HOMS) YA Global Investments BO 169,900 $32,631 Prospect Capital (PSEC) Anderson Graham DIR 2,000 $21,320 Prourocare Medical (PUMD) Koenig David DIR 4,834 $7,251 Central Pacific Financial (CPF) Rose Crystal DIR 810 $1,952 NGP Capital Resources (NGPC) Blessing Edward W DIR 200 $1,468 Central Pacific Financial (CPF) Camp Christine H H DIR 460 $1,109 Geltech Solutions (GLTC) Cordani Peter DIR,CTO, BO 500 $1,070

Huntsman (HUN) MatlinPatterson LLC BO 1,491,100 $13,905,363 Aspect Medical Systems (ASPM) CCM Master Qualified Fund Ltd BO 230,000 $2,741,600 Perrigo (PRGO) Arkin Moshe DIR 36,736 $1,250,081 Staples (SPLS) Sargent Ronald CB,CEO, DIR 40,000 $933,404 Hi Tech Pharmacal (HITK) Seltzer Reuben DIR 35,401 $770,664 LKQ (LKQX) Casini Victor M VP,GC 25,000 $463,970 Travelers Companies (TRV) Maclean Brian W PR,COO 8,300 $405,262 Rackspace Hosting (RAX) Napier A Lanham CEO,PR, DIR 22,000 $374,898 Western Union (WU) Battista Guy A PR,VP, FO 15,966 $307,505 Synnex (SNX) Miau Matthew DIR 8,200 $254,392