Welcome to edition 226 of Insider Weekends. Insider buying increased significantly last week with insiders buying $165.25 million of stock compared to $51.96 million in the week prior.

Junior mining sector equities in the gold space, as proxied for by the Market Vectors Junior Gold Miners ETF, have outperformed gold since the June Cambridge House conference.

I think that most investors can agree that performing careful due diligence on an investment is a necessity. What investors cannot seem to agree on, though, is what constitutes “due diligence.”

Much larger than Eagle Ford and once thought to have reached peak production, new technology has brought us full circle back to the Permian Basin in Texas and New Mexico, where the recent shift to horizontal well drilling has rendered this play the unexpected ground zero.

September E-mini S&Ps (ESU14 -0.05%) this morning are down -0.16% and European stocks are down -0.32% after German May industrial production unexpectedly declined for a third straight month.

I found the independent energy stock by sorting the New High list for new high frequency in the last month, then used the Flipchart feature to review the charts. Since the Trend Spotter signaled a buy on 2/7 the stock gained 29.76%.