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Re:Twilio employees, associates charged with insider trading... by JumpCrisscross on Monday March 28, 2022 @07:27PM (#30836846)
> enforcement is impossible without subjecting anybody trading stocks and everybody they know to a completely unprecedented level of surveillance

Why? Just look for a pattern of abnormal returns. (Hint: the SEC does this.) It's much easier to check for insider information after the fact than it is to profitably trade on it.

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Re:Twilio employees, associates charged with insider trading... by economist9374 on Monday March 28, 2022 @07:30PM (#30836871)
>(Hint: the SEC does this.)

Does it work? (Hint: no)

> It's much easier to check for insider information after the fact than it is to profitably trade on it.

This is only true for the least sophisticated insider traders.

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