Corporate officers and directors commonly buy and sell, for their own portfolios, stock in their own corporations. Generally, when the ratio of such inside sales to inside purchases falls below 2 to 1 for a given stock, a rise in stock prices is imminent. In recent days, while the price of MEGA Corporation stock has been falling, the corporation's officers and directors have bought up to nine times as much of it as they have sold.

The facts above best support which of the following predictions?

• AThe imbalance between inside purchases and inside sales of MEGA stock will grow even further.  
• BInside purchases of MEGA stock are about to cease abruptly.  
• CThe price of MEGA stock will soon begin to go up.  
• DThe price of MEGA stock will continue to drop, but less rapidly.  
• EThe majority of MEGA stock will soon be owned by MEGA's own officers and directors.