at amazon virtually everyone is considered an insider because almost everyone has access to the sales graphs that are used to track the health of the website an

at amazon virtually everyone is considered an insider because almost everyone has access to the sales graphs that are used to track the health of the website and you can see detailed graphs of the revenue which only become public during the quarterly announcements. Basically anyone who had a company computer had access to this info so you were only allowed to trade amazon stock for like 15 days after each quarterly announcement. HR would send out emails saying when the allowed trading periods began and ended