Citadel Sells $44.3M Worth of E*Trade

• ByJonathan Moreland, RealMoney Contributor
• On 8:53 am EDT, Monday October 5, 2009

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 Friday 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.

Opti (OPTI) S Muoio & Co LLC BO 82,925 $301,444 Blackrock Intl Gr & Inc Tr (BGY) Flynn James T DIR 9,000 $106,300 Blackrock Global Opp Equity Tr (BOE) Flynn James T DIR 5,000 $95,080 Blackrock Enhanced Div Achievers Tr (BDJ) Flynn James T DIR 9,000 $77,530 Nuveen NY Quality Inc Muni Fund (NUN) Bank Of America Corp De BO 2,500 $34,260 Blackrock Div Achievers Tr (BDV) Flynn James T DIR 4,000 $33,320 MMR Information Sys (MMRF) Helm Doug DIR 75,000 $26,932 Mimedx Group (MDXG) Gorlin Steve DIR 24,600 $19,900 Republic Bancorp Ky (RBCAA) Snowden Sandy Metts DIR 262 $5,230 Republic Bancorp Ky (RBCAA) Tamme Stout Sue DIR 239 $4,770

E Trade Financial (ETFC) Citadel LP DIR 25,439,800 $44,256,456 Perrigo (PRGO) Arkin Moshe DIR 234,890 $8,015,762 Amazon.com (AMZN) Szkutak Thomas J CFO,VP 26,000 $2,379,457 Berkshire Hathaway (BRK) Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation BO 300 $989,601 Mednax (MD) Miller Frederick V Md PR 14,007 $762,402 Walt Disney (DIS) Staggs Thomas O CFO,VP 25,000 $691,500 Rambus (RMBS) Horowitz Mark DIR 20,000 $333,772 Illumina (ILMN) Walt David R DIR 7,500 $318,388 Internet Brands (INET) Hoover Charles E SO 36,000 $288,000 JDA Software (JDAS) Armstrong James D DIR 10,000 $216,934

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