Director Sells $2.4M Worth of FirstMerit

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.

Boomerang Systems (BMER) Mulvihill Christopher PR,BO 6,100,000 $610,000 1st United Bancorp (FUBC) Lynch Thomas E DIR 100,000 $500,000 Stone Tan China Acquisition (STTA) Spac Trust BO 50,818 $403,241 Stone Tan China Acquisition (STTA) Stone Roger W CB,DIR, BO 33,878 $268,822 Hancock Fabrics (HKFI) Subin Neil S DIR 233,250 $251,910 Fifth Street Finance (FSC) Tannenbaum Leonard M CEO,PR, DIR 22,685 $239,393 Insured Muni Inc Fund (PIF) Karpus Management Inc BO 15,100 $203,694 1st United Bancorp (FUBC) Morrison Carlos DIR 40,000 $200,000 1st United Bancorp (FUBC) Loring Arthur S DIR 30,000 $150,000 Homeland Security Capital (HOMS) Ya Global Investments BO 200,000 $36,100

Huntsman (HUN) Matlinpatterson Partnerships BO 4,169,618 $39,682,486 Vitacost.com (VITC) Gorsek Wayne BO 2,350,000 $28,200,000 Universal American (UAM) Welsh Carson Anderson & Stowe IX LP BO 298,079 $3,030,775 Carnival Plc (CUK) Nickel Continued Irrevocable Trust BO 84,982 $2,871,278 China Green Agriculture (CGA) Li Tao CB,CEO, PR,DIR, BO 212,710 $2,591,382 Firstmerit Corp (FMER) Lloyd Philip A DIR 130,861 $2,385,596 Vitacostcom (VITC) Trapp Robert G DIR 132,164 $1,585,968 Gabelli Global Deal Fund (GDL.A) Gabelli Mario J DIR 14,924 $789,602 Finish Line In (FINL) Cohen Alan H CB,DIR, BO 67,901 $645,273 Berry Petroleum (BRY) Busch Ralph B III DIR 16,000 $440,707