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Also if you have the raw feeds you can try to detect suspicious activity and then use that activity as a signal for your own trades. If you trade based upon pub
by apaprocki 12y ago
Also if you have the raw feeds you can try to detect suspicious activity and then use that activity as a signal for your own trades. If you trade based upon public data (what winds up being insider trading) without knowing the inside information is it insider trading?
- foobarqux 12y agoBut where would that activity come from in cases other than the relatively few activist and hostile takeovers?
- apaprocki 12y agoWhy there is a sudden surge in options activity with no underlying stock movement or news could be very, very specific to the stock and requires understanding of why that might happen. I'm not sure computers have all the info they need (at this point in time) to make that determination with precise accuracy. But, you can simply ask the computer to notify you when it occurs so that you can use your brain to try to make sense of it.
- foobarqux 12y agoThe question is how could that movement be a result of impending M&A activity without insider information?
- Bootvis 12y agoWell observations of public information that are not widely disseminated or are hard to interpret. For example 1) Change in behavior of insiders because of regulations which leaks information, e.g. sudden silence on a certain subject 2) Observed activity of key persons, e.g. the CEO of a company being spotted with other CEO's Mosaic theory[1] allows such things under the right circumstances and this would influence price. [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosaic_theory_%28investments%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosaic_theory_%28investments%29
- apaprocki 12y agoe.g. just from a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7866930 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7866930