How high a percentage of an insider's total shares the insider sold during the relevant period is relevant to determining whether alleged insider trading was unusual or suspicious such as to add support to a strong inference of scienter as required by the pleading standard of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995.

Contributed in 2008 by David Gold
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