It's pretty easy to cover your tracks if you're not an idiot and know what you're doing, and I assume a lot of the people that make big insider trading plays ar

It's pretty easy to cover your tracks if you're not an idiot and know what you're doing, and I assume a lot of the people that make big insider trading plays are neither. So hamstringing the SEC with an arbitrarily high standard just facilitates continued insider trading. Agreed on the full burden of proof for penalties. But having your gains clawed back is a different fish entirely.