Insider Buys $45.4M Worth of QuickSilver

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 Tuesday 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.

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Company Name (Ticker) Filer Name Title(s) Shares Bought Dollar Value Quicksilver Resources (KWK) SPO Advisory Corp BO 5,202,500 $45,396,395 Boulder Growth &ome Fund (BIF) Ernest Horejsi Trust No 1b BO 31,549 $142,231 Cubic Energy (QBC) Phyllis K Harding DIR 20,900 $22,127 Canyon Copper (CNYC) Malim Andrew F DIR 400,000 $16,000 ERF Wireless (ERFW) Jones Michael Robert DIR,CTO 32,258 $10,000 Opko Health (OPK) Frost Phillip Md Et Al CB,CEO, DIR,BO 6,000 $9,990 ERF Wireless (ERFW) Smith R Greg DIR 13,442 $4,167 Grandsouth Bancorporation (GRRB) Garrett Mason Y CB,CEO, DIR,BO 612 $2,999 Franklin Credit Holding (FCMC) Axon Thomas J CB,PR, DIR,BO 5,800 $2,610 Ikonics (IKNX) Nerges Joseph R BO 230 $1,283

Company Name (Ticker) Filer Name Title(s) Shares Sold Dollar Value Kellogg (K) Kellogg W K Foundation Trust BO 200,000 $9,557,860 Lumber Liquidators (LL) TA Associates Inc DIR 105,000 $1,590,404 Shutterfly (SFLY) Clark James H BO 50,055 $662,721 Biodelivery Sciences (BDSI) CDC IV LLC BO 76,511 $474,506 Compellent Technologies (CML) Judd John R CFO 20,000 $306,000 Dolby Laboratories (DLB) Gotcher Peter C CB,DIR 5,000 $179,850 United Natural Foods (UNFI) Lindberg Randle X,PR 4,823 $127,096 Sulphco (SUF) Gunnerman Rudolf W BO 126,481 $118,893 Cardiovascular Biotherapeutics (CVBT) Stegmann Thomas BO 453,800 $83,784 Medarex (MEDX) Pien Howard H CB,CEO, PR,DIR 10,000 $83,750

Key to Titles: A=Assistant, AI=Affiliated Investor, AO=Accounting Officer, BD=Business Development, BO=Beneficial Owner, CAO=Chief Accounting Officer, CB=Chairman, CCO=Chief Compliance Officer, CEO=Chief Executive Officer, CFO=Chief Financial Officer, CIO=Chief Information Officer, CO=Compliance Officer, COO=Chief Operating Officer, CT=Controller, CTO=Chief Technology Officer, DIR=Director, F=Founder, FO=Financial Officer, GC=General Counsel, HR=Human Resources, IO=Information Officer, IR=Investor Relations, LO=Legal Officer, MD=Managing Director, O=Officer, OO=Operating Officer, PR=President, PT=Partner, REL=Relative of an insider, SEC=Secretary, SH=Shareholder, SO=Sales Officer, TO=Technology Officer, TR=Treasurer, TT=Trustee, VCB=Vice Chairman, VP=Vice President, X=Ex Officer or other title displayed.

Source: InsiderInsights.com

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