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Re:$70M in 60 Seconds: How Insider Info Helped Someone 28x T... by Almondsetat on Saturday April 12, 2025 @05:08AM (#43662708)
Simply copy their positions. But if everyone's position were available, insider trading wouldn't even exist because it would give the game away
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Re:$70M in 60 Seconds: How Insider Info Helped Someone 28x T... by notahacker on Saturday April 12, 2025 @05:18AM (#43662770)
By the time you copy their positions, they've made their money.

In theory of course, them being blatantly and obviously corrupt would hurt them at the ballot box. In practice, this is not really something at moves the needle in American politics.

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Re:$70M in 60 Seconds: How Insider Info Helped Someone 28x T... by EasyMark on Sunday April 13, 2025 @02:48PM (#43674937)
why do you think you would know their positions in time to do anything about it?
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Re:$70M in 60 Seconds: How Insider Info Helped Someone 28x T... by Almondsetat on Monday April 14, 2025 @04:37PM (#43686038)
I will leave it to big investors with supercomputers connected directly to the exchanges to eat away at the potential profits of even the slightest insider trading activity automatically
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