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Agreed, it wouldn't be insider trading - just fraud - with potential horrible unintended but predictable consequences; of which the person(s) buying the stock a
by loceng 3y ago
Agreed, it wouldn't be insider trading - just fraud - with potential horrible unintended but predictable consequences; of which the person(s) buying the stock around that orchestrated event happens would be complicit in.
There's probably far easier and more lucrative ways for clever criminals to execute on though.
- tim333 3y agoI'm not sure it would even be fraud although obviously blowing up airplanes breaks some laws. But on the finance side if you buy calls on a company and then help it be successful in some way I don't think you have broken any laws.