It goes without saying that one of the best indicators of when to enter or exit a position on a stock has always been by monitoring the activity of insiders, so why should Whole Foods be the exception?

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As the Wall Street logic goes, why should I be buying the shares when insiders are selling?

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Yet, the incident also prompts us to consider why people invest the time and energy to become Wikipedia insiders in the first place.

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Insiders know more about a company than anybody else, so why not let them trade on what they know?

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That is why its responses are often bemoaned as inadequate by the world, but hailed by insiders as hard-fought achievements.

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