Einstein Noah Restaurant Group Inc (BAGL)

Thomas Sandell's New York-based firm Sandell Asset Management has officially launched its new activist hedge fund. The Castlerigg Active Investment Fund began operating in August with $100 million.

At InsiderMonkey, we track insider purchases every day. It is very important to our investment strategy, just like keeping an eye on hedge fund activity.

Tracking hedge fund and insider transactions is crucial to our investment strategy.

David Einhorn's Greenlight Capital, in a newly amended filing with the SEC, disclosed cutting its position in Einstein Noah Restaurant Group, Inc.

"The Great Recession" had a big impact on the United States. The stock market lost over half its value from late 2007 to early 2009.

Despite the fact that the restaurant industry is quite cyclical, companies can find ways to soften the cycles.

In One Up on Wall Street, Peter Lynch famously declared that "An amateur investor can pick tomorrow's big winners by paying attention to new developments at the workplace, the mall, the auto showrooms...

To the average investor, there are a multitude of metrics shareholders can use to track publicly traded companies. A duo of the most under-the-radar are hedge fund and insider trading sentiment.

Panera Bread Co (NASDAQ:PNRA) earnings came in under expectations for the second quarter of 2013, and the sell-off to under $180 gives you a great opportunity to, as Warren Buffett put it, be “greedy...