John N. Golding, EVP at FIRST FINANCIAL HOLDINGS INC /DE/ (FFCH), bought 1,000 shares at $7.74 ($8K) on 2011-11-07, disclosed to the SEC on 2011-11-08.
Open-market purchase of $8k FFCH by EVP. Below the thresholds we flag for high-conviction alerts (no C-suite role, rare reversal, cluster, or A-grade history).
Something here stands out, but not much.