Ask YC: Using Employee Stock Purchase plans to cover short positions?
Can individual companies enable this sort of behavior legally? Is this more of a technical or ethical question?Edit: this sort of behavior: short selling your own stock
drandall
Re:To all those guys who took the conservative banking jobs
on Tuesday September 16, 2008 @09:47AM (#305763)
Schadenfreude is completely inappropriate. You were what, 12 when the dot-com shit hit the fan?
Go figure: 19 yr old php/python/actionscript hero at younoodle
Re:Ask YC: Using Employee Stock Purchase plans to cover short positions?
on Monday September 15, 2008 @12:10PM (#304776)
Follow up - theoretically, if I thought my employer's stock was going to go down but wasn't privy to nonpublic info, could I put on a short position to lock in gains or ride out a dip? Or is just working for that co enough to make that illegal?
Re:Ask HN: Legality of Web Scraping User-Submitted Content?
on Wednesday August 06, 2008 @05:57PM (#269059)
insert JP Morgan quote
Re:DailyCandy Bought by Comcast for $125 million
on Tuesday August 05, 2008 @08:18PM (#268040)
This really makes me wonder how valuations are calculated for newsletters. Anyone?
Re:Ask YC: How do we announce the alpha launch?
on Sunday August 03, 2008 @08:34PM (#265838)
If you do announce something, don't call it a 'launch' call it an 'alpha.' When you do a beta, call it a beta. Don't use the word launch until you're ready, b/c any news is going to say "But you launched in August! What's new?" and all you can say is "We're out of beta" or something like that.
Re:I'll give you $50 for a worse brand name than Knol
on Thursday July 31, 2008 @02:25PM (#263285)
Re:Ask HN: Would you really use this on a girl?
on Friday July 25, 2008 @05:24PM (#257115)
It's running on TextMarks probably until they can spring for a shortcode.