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Re:How a 25-Year-Old Investor Spurred Lumber Liquidators’ Pl... by analog31 on Wednesday March 04, 2015 @10:14PM (#9149022)
Did he engage in insider trading? He traded on material, non-public information, although one could certainly argue that the non-existence of a business is public information.
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Re:How a 25-Year-Old Investor Spurred Lumber Liquidators’ Pl... by evanpw on Thursday March 05, 2015 @08:53AM (#9150708)
You have to get the information in breach of a duty of confidentiality (and in exchange for some personal benefit) in order for it to be illegal, at least in the US. If you discover something on your own, you're free to trade on it.
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Re:How a 25-Year-Old Investor Spurred Lumber Liquidators’ Pl... by koenigdavidmj on Wednesday March 04, 2015 @10:39PM (#9149098)
Attempting and failing to buy your product is one of the most public bits of information there is.

Observing the lack of any activity at your claimed corporate headquarters is pretty public too.

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Re:How a 25-Year-Old Investor Spurred Lumber Liquidators’ Pl... by eru on Wednesday March 04, 2015 @10:48PM (#9149125)
If you wanted to follow in the guy's footsteps, you might want to move a jurisdiction that's more accommodating of insider trading?
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