It is all anecdotal... but I AM seeing signs of life now in some long dormant issues. We have two whole instances of insiders making decisions in the last few... and I'm trying to build a market rally case out of it... if not in a vacuum.
Maybe look for a spike in acquisition talk next week for something a bit more indicative of what is happening in the broader market as undercurrent right now. If you have the metric tools, it might be useful to have a time dependent measure of the level of Forms 4 being posted to the "latest filings":