Questions tagged [insider-trading]
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Is it insider trading if I bought Boeing puts while I am inside the wrecked airplane?
Imagine sitting in an airplane when suddenly the door blows out.
Now, while everyone is screaming and grasping for air, you instead turn on your noise-cancelling head-phones to ignore that crying baby next to you, calmly open your robin-hood app (or…
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Can Trump legally sell stocks on Friday, tweet about imposing tariffs on Sunday and then buy more of the stocks back on Monday?
Trump could have made a lot of money by selling stocks before tweeting about imposing tariffs on China and then buying more of them back when the price of the stocks has dropped. Would this fall under the ban on insider trading, or does insider…
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How do short-seller research firms avoid insider trading?
This year I've read a couple reports from notable short-seller firms that research publicly traded businesses with shady practices whose stock prices they expect to fall (Examples: Hindenburg's report on Carvana, Scorpion's report on Transmedics). I…
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Can a computer be guilty of insider trading?
It is reported that a computer demonstrated "insider trading" in a simulated environment:
In the test, the AI bot is a trader for a fictitious financial investment company.
The employees tell it that the company is struggling and needs good…
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How does insider trading law affect bitcoin exchanges?
The Bitcoin network is predicated on the premise that it is difficult to find 'low' hash values for a given input. This is an incredibly safe bet because of the way the algorithm is implemented - if you change one byte in the input then the output…
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Can you get prosecuted as a Senator for insider trading if you buy an ETF?
Can you get prosecuted as a senator for insider trading if you buy an ETF? If the senator used insider information and bought an ETF that had a big holding of a stock that went up as a result of an action only insiders would have known, can you get…
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Could the Intel CEO be accused of insider trading?
A few weeks back, the Intel CEO sold all the company shares he was allowed to. Yesterday, it was reported that a big security flaw existed in virtually all Intel processors sold in the last decade. Intel has known about it for several months and has…
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Does insider trading exist for land or property assets?
Insider trading is defined as "the illegal practice of trading on the stock exchange to one's own advantage through having access to confidential information" and is illegal pretty much everywhere to make stock markets more fair.
Are there similar…
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Duty to disclose to shareholder vs. confidential information
I was talking with friends about Apple switching from Intel CPUs to their own, and an interesting question popped up.
Since we're not privy to any of the details, this is purely speculative and out of curiosity.
Apple has been a customer of Intel…
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If I discover information about a company through personal investigation can I act on it without being guilty of insider trading?
Let's say I'm a skilled PI who has, through detailed investigation followed a paper trail back and discovered that Soylent Green is people! (err..spoiler warning?)
I am now aware of information that is not public knowledge, but I have not 'stolen'…
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Is crypto sniping illegal?
The promoter of multiple cryptocurrency meme coins, including Javier Milei linked LIBRA and Trump linked MELANIA coins, has claimed that sniping is commonplace. My understanding is that this involves having prior knowledge about an instrument…
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If I'm about to do something that will cause a stock price to move, can I legally profit from it?
For example, suppose that instead of flying planes into the World Trade Center, Osama bin Laden had decided to fly planes into Microsoft Campus. He can therefore predict with high confidence that MSFT will crash. Can he legally buy MSFT puts prior…
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Using insider trading knowledge to trade on a competitor
In Australia, there are two major grocery companies, Woolworths and Coles. Now suppose I work for Woolworths and I become aware of a technological breakthrough that will dramatically increase the popularity and profitability of Woolworths which has…
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Could leaking insider information eliminate insider trader concerns?
Suppose I possess some non-public information about Company X. I want to trade Company X's stock for reasons unrelated to the information (e.g. I believe the stock market as a whole is going to tank soon and I want to get out of the market). This…
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Insider trading due to mis-sent email?
Something that happened to a friend recently. This friend is in charge of negotiations for company A. An individual from company B, accidentally sent my friend minutes from a recent meeting outlining a lot of information that can be useful for my…
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