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A comment on The Day George Soros Broke the Bank of England to Make $1.1B (2021). Parent comment

Re:The Day George Soros Broke the Bank of England to Make $1... by pis0m0jad0 on Friday March 18, 2022 @10:54AM (#30723071)
I have bad news for you, insider trading isn't about fairness. People trade, legally, on inside information all the time. Adverse selection abounds in markets, so you have to be careful. Insider trading laws are rather about theft: did you illegally appropriate information owned by someone else to benefit yourself and/or a third party? That is insider trading. In the US, it can be even more relaxed than that, with the standard being you had intent.
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Re:The Day George Soros Broke the Bank of England to Make $1... by lupire on Saturday March 19, 2022 @12:01AM (#30730865)
> People trade, legally, on inside information all the time.

Example?

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Re:The Day George Soros Broke the Bank of England to Make $1... by simonh on Saturday March 19, 2022 @12:50PM (#30735340)
It may be a contrived definition of ‘insider information’ in an attempt to concoct a controversy. Like a company buying it’s own shares based on its internal knowledge of its condition, or employees buying share options in a scheme for their company. If it was actually an issue I expect it would have been stated instead of coyly implied. Its true not all market participants have access to the same information all the time. The point I made is that this can’t be so skewed or biased that it’s an obstacle to investment.
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