Questions tagged [insider-trading]
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Does insider trading extend to physical goods (not equities)?
Any jurisdiction is fair game, but I’m interested in the United States
If one has insider information that would meaningfully influence their choice to buy/sell a stock, there might be restrictions on ...
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Does non-objectively justifiable optimism constitute insider trading?
As a hypothetical:
Company A is a competitor of Company B. Management of Company A thinks that Company A is so much better than Company B that Company B will soon go out of business. After getting ...
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I have trading restriction on my company stock. Can I trade correlated ones?
I work for a company that is listed on the Nasdaq. Each quarter, employees have trading restrictions six weeks before the company results are released and two days after the release to avoid insider ...
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Is it still insider trading if from the outside with no breach of trust?
SEC Rule 10B5-1 prohibits:
the purchase or sale of a security of any issuer, on the basis of
material nonpublic information about that security or issuer, in
breach of a duty of trust or confidence ...
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Insider trading and assertions made by influent agents
It is possible for an influent (private) agent, namely someone who has the power to direct the market, to buy a stock before giving a positive announcement about the stock itself? Does his investment ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Is it legal for a firm to time their announcements based on the stock sale times indicated in the pre-established 10b5-1 plan?
I understand that SEC Rule 10b5-1 aims at reducing insider trading by having major shareholders and insiders of exchange-listed corporations trade a predetermined number of shares at a predetermined ...
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Is it possible for the CEO of KODK to be found guilty of insider trading?
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Recently, the American film company KODK announced a deal with the US government to manufacture generic pharmaceuticals in the US.
After the announcement, the company's stock price ...
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Does "insider trading" apply to private companies?
In America, "pitching" to investors is how capital is often raised.
What I don't understand is why this is legal: You supply private information to the investor, who decides to buy stock in your ...
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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 ...
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