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insider trading
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insider trading, stock market transactions made with knowledge of nonpublic information about corporate activity. In the United States, it has been illegal since 1934. The Securities and Exchange Commission Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), agency of the U.S. government created by the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and charged with protecting the interests of the public and investors in connection with the public issuance and sale of corporate securities.
..... Click the link for more information.  regards it as unfair to investors who are not privy to such information. Several insider trading scandals shook Wall Street in the mid-1980s.

insider trading

Illegal use of insider information for profit in financial trading. Since 1934, the Securities and Exchange Commission has prohibited trading while in possession of material nonpublic information. See also arbitrage, Michael R. Milken.
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Services include insider trade reporting on blue chips and penny stocks, real-time insider trading alerts, and newsletters describing notable insider trades.
Critical Stock Alerts: Insider Trade for General Electric, Alcoa, ... by PR Newswire
This results in an intraday sample that has the exact transaction time for each identified insider trade in addition to other information available in the SEC data.
Intraday behavior of stock prices and trades around insider trading by Inci, A. Can; Lu, Biao; Seyhun, H. Nejat / Financial Management
372) Moreover, in view of the fact that "a corporate insider trades on information that is essentially undiscoverable--such as his intuition, based on all of the information available to him" the probability of being caught, if the insider is careful is "virtually zero.
Criminal insider trading: prosecution. legislation, and justification by Brody, Steve / Journal of Applied Economy
 
 
 
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