Chair Buys $5.9M Worth of Plains Exploration

By Jonathan Moreland, founder of InsiderInsights.com and author of Profit From Legal Insider Trading.

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 Wednesday 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.

Plains Exploration Production (PXP) Flores James C CB,DIR 200,000 $5,912,000 THQ (THQI) Mak Capital One LLC BO 471,349 $3,368,896 Ceco Environmental (CECE) Dezwirek Phillip CB,DIR, BO 69,100 $245,663 Cleco (CNL) Crowell Richard B DIR 8,200 $219,360 Seattle Genetics Wa (SGEN) Berger Franklin M DIR 11,500 $138,528 Taylor Capital Group (TAYC) Second Curve Capital LLC BO 10,000 $124,600 Geoeye (GEOY) Schuster William COO 2,274 $67,811 New Century Bancorp (NCBC) Harris Oscar N DIR 12,000 $65,400 Arabian American Dev (ARSD) Al Athel Fahad Mohammed Saleh BO 20,000 $54,000 Shiloh Industries (SHLO) Abruzzo Cloyd J DIR 9,876 $53,954 Source: www.InsiderInsights.com

Leucadia National (LUK) Steinberg Joseph S PR,DIR, BO 1,000,000 $25,063,003 Developers Diversified Realty (DDR) Wolstein Iris S BO 535,304 $6,696,104 Douglas Emmett (DEI) Emmett Dan A CB,DIR, BO 210,000 $3,225,600 First Cash Financial Svs (FCFS) Burke Richard T BO 100,000 $2,168,778 Rackspace Hosting (RAX) Weston Graham M CB,DIR, BO 100,000 $1,798,870 Dynegy (DYN) Ls Power Development L L C BO 1,387,670 $1,749,700 SXC Health Solutions (SXCI) Romza John VP,CTO 16,500 $1,112,265 Mellanox Technologies (MLNX) Waldman Eyal CEO,DIR 47,814 $1,110,224 Arca Biopharma (ABIO) Atlas Venture Fund Vii L P BO 140,000 $1,058,400 Lululemon Athletica (LULU) Waterson Sheree VP 23,750 $972,100 Source: www.InsiderInsights.com

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.

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