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Re:Silicon Valley IT Administrator and Friends Charged in In... by arkadiyt on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @09:37PM (#21821250)
Chloe Xie published a research paper [1] on exactly the topic of how hard it is to profit despite advance knowledge of earnings results. It was summarized by Matt Levine in his aptly titled "Knowing the Future Isn’t That Helpful" [2].

[1]: http://chloexie.com/pdf/ChloeXie_JMP.pdf

[2]: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-11-26/knowin...

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Re:Silicon Valley IT Administrator and Friends Charged in In... by ENOTTY on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @09:59PM (#21821365)
I also highly recommend playing the insider trading video game https://insider-trading-game.netlify.com/
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Re:Silicon Valley IT Administrator and Friends Charged in In... by jannes on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @04:24AM (#21823203)
Wow, the game is literally showing Market Cap for the last quarter. Doesn't that sort of defeat the purpose of the game?
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