Disclosed insider transactions lead the stocks-to-watch list for the next 24 hours. This is a report of publicly disclosed trades and published volume screens only — not a tip or advice to buy or sell any security.

The largest newly reported sales are at Everpure (NYSE: P), where insider John Colgrove sold 100,000 shares on October 12 at an average $153.73 — about $15.37 million — and another 100,000 shares on October 14 at $145.00, about $14.5 million. Both sales were made under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan, according to the SEC filings, meaning the schedule was set in advance rather than timed to a single day's news.

At MSCI (NYSE: MSCI), chief financial officer Andrew Wiechmann sold 450 shares on October 12 at $570.00, for $256,500 — about 2.04 per cent of his holding — also under a Rule 10b5-1 plan. MSCI shares traded down 1.3 per cent on Friday to $567.85. On the buying side, Cross Timbers Royalty Trust (NYSE: CRT) major shareholder Eric Oliver bought 1,377 shares on October 13 at $12.23, for $16,840.71, taking his holding to 1,019,426 shares.

On volume, MarketBeat's October 17 screeners flagged Prologis, Teledyne Technologies and Ascendis Pharma among growth names, and Micron, NVIDIA and Apple among technology names, based on the highest recent dollar trading volume.

Insider sales under 10b5-1 plans are disclosures, not signals by themselves: executives sell for diversification, taxes and planned liquidity. Readers should check the underlying filings on EDGAR before drawing conclusions.