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Why Practice Insider Trading? Just Watch Buffett Instead
- nostromo 16y agoThis analysis is pretty poor. The insider trade made a million dollars in a day. The author is arguing that he could have alternatively made $10mm in two years if he hadn't have sold. But of course $1mm in a day is a much better return than $10mm in 2 years. And of course the trader's money wasn't sitting idly since this trade -- he was probably making other illegal trades based on non-public info -- so in the end his return might have been much higher than if he had bought and held after the private information became public.