March 2020. The market was in free fall, and the world was shutting down. Buying anything felt insane.
That is the exact moment I told my readers to buy Marvell (MRVL) at $22. Yesterday it closed at $316.43, a 15X return.
That is the thing about panic. When everyone is terrified and selling at once, the best companies on earth go on sale, and the profit is sitting right there for anyone willing to buy. MRVL was a textbook case.
But panic cuts both ways. Buying into it is also exactly how you catch a falling knife. For every Marvell at $22, there is a stock that looks just as cheap and keeps right on falling until it’s worthless. Cheap is not the same as a bargain.
So the only question that matters in a panic is this: how do you tell the two apart?
The ultimate tell is insider buying.
When a CEO or a chairman buys millions of dollars of their own stock with their own money, they are telling you they believe it’s cheap, and they know the business better than anyone on Wall Street.
That is the signal that turns a falling knife into a bargain, the difference between guessing and following the people with the most information and the most on the line.
Let me show you what that looks like in practice.
10 Million Reasons
A few weeks ago, I told my readers to buy Palo Alto Networks after the CEO put down $10 million of his own money.
Karim R, 4/10/2026, 9:59 am: “As a firm believer in insider signals, I’m recommending Palo Alto Networks. Take a half position, and we’ll add on any further dip. PANW is a leader in cybersecurity, and I can show you 10 million reasons we should own this growing, profitable, market-leading company.”
Our entry was $154 and change. By late May, a few weeks later, PANW was over $300. A $150 move in a matter of weeks.
There’s more. War Room members just cleaned up on IBM, up $100 a couple of weeks ago. CRM, up over $30 in a matter of days. They were up almost $40 on Microsoft last week. All insider buys.
Then there was Southwest Airlines, another insider play, where we took in as much as 109% and made four separate trades on that one pick.
YOUR ACTION PLAN
You already know the playbook. When insiders put their own money on the line, we pay attention. When they buy in size during fear and uncertainty, we follow.
That’s how we got PANW at $154 and rode it to $300 in weeks. That’s how we banked 109% on Southwest in four separate trades. IBM up $100. CRM up $30. Microsoft up $40. Rolls Royce up 1,400%.
The pattern is clear: insider buying during panic separates the falling knives from the bargains. It’s not a perfect signal, but it’s the closest thing we have to seeing the house’s cards before placing our bet.
Keep your eyes open. The next wave of insider signals is forming. When I see another CEO stepping up with millions of their own dollars, you’ll be the first to know.
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FUN FACT FRIDAY
In March 2026, Palo Alto Networks CEO Nikesh Arora purchased approximately $10 million worth of PANW stock – around 68,085 shares at about $147 each.
This was his first notable open-market buy in years and increased his reported beneficial ownership to roughly 1.1 million shares. As of early June 2026, with the stock trading near $279, that stake is now worth about $307 million. A clear show of confidence from the top.