That would be a smoking gun and add credibility to this. However, with hindsight—and especially if you had inside or advanced knowledge of something groundbreak

That would be a smoking gun and add credibility to this. However, with hindsight—and especially if you had inside or advanced knowledge of something groundbreaking—it would be obvious to capitalize on it in some way, as long as it didn't violate stock market trading standards. For example, if a company developed a revolutionary drug that would disrupt an entire market and weaken competitors, purchasing options against those competitors wouldn’t constitute insider trading or breach stock market regulations, as I understand it. However, buying shares in the company itself based on that inside knowledge would.