VP McCormick Buys $100,000 Worth of Columbia Sportswear

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 Tuesday 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.

Mexico Fund (MXF) Clariond Eugenio DIR 45,000 $970,250 Columbia Sportswear (COLM) Mccormick Michael W VP,SO 2,500 $100,000 Huntington Bancshares (HBAN) Robertson William R DIR 15,000 $61,500 Dole Food (DOLE) Tesoriero Joseph S. CFO,VP 4,250 $53,125 Privatebancorp (PVTB) Rabin Edward W DIR 3,500 $43,930 Huntington Bancshares (HBAN) Little Gene E DIR 10,000 $41,900 Homeland Security Capital (HOMS) Ya Global Investments BO 248,210 $39,714 Dole Food (DOLE) Delorenzo David A CEO,PR, DIR 3,000 $37,500 Allegheny Technologies (ATI) Jeremiah Barabara S DIR 1,000 $34,618 Privatebancorp (PVTB) Silva Alejandro DIR 2,000 $26,318

Nike (NKE) Knight Philip H DIR,BO 577,800 $36,876,211 OpenTV (OPTV) Discovery Group I LLC BO 5,016,230 $7,725,061 Carnival (CCL) Arison Micky Meir CB,CEO, DIR,BO 115,018 $3,635,972 GSI Commerce (GSIC) Rubin Michael CEO,PR, DIR 150,000 $3,116,250 Applied Energetics (AERG) Howard Robert BO 12,000,000 $3,004,050 Cybersource (CYBS) Cruickshank Scott Richard PR,COO 163,685 $2,780,894 Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.B) Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation BO 500 $1,657,471 Capital One Financial (COF) Perlin Gary L CFO 38,880 $1,595,246 Half Robert International /de/ (RHI) Waddell M Keith VCB,PR, DIR 50,000 $1,291,461 Boston Scientific (BSX) Abele John E DIR 100,000 $861,605