> If I knew something about the stock market that was valuable and I told people for free i would destroy the value of that knowledge. Not if you've taken your

> If I knew something about the stock market that was valuable and I told people for free i would destroy the value of that knowledge. Not if you've taken your position and then encourage people to realise the same. E.g. A more extreme example, but sometimes you see people up dirt on a company showing how they are fiddling numbers/debt etc, take a position and then publish. Also realistically (more extreme examples aside) you telling the world what you know about a company wont change diddly, but just acts as a sounding board or because you like to announce/discuss it.