Insider information

[VoZangre]

Pin the Tail on the troll….

[VoZangre]

Pin the Tail on the troll….

[sandiego]

I don’t know your financial status but I can’t imagine that your purchase of a few thousand shares would catch anyone’s attention.

Also, the stock won’t go up more than a few percent.

Lets say it is trading at $25 per share. The buyout offer MIGHT be for 10-20% above the market (in order to intice enough people to tender their shares). It won’t double or triple. A profit of $4 per share on 2000 shares isn’t going to let you retire.

On the other hand, Martha Stewart went to jail for lying to the grand jury about trying to save a $49,000 loss (after acting on insider information).

[sandiego]

I don’t know your financial status but I can’t imagine that your purchase of a few thousand shares would catch anyone’s attention.

Also, the stock won’t go up more than a few percent.

Lets say it is trading at $25 per share. The buyout offer MIGHT be for 10-20% above the market (in order to intice enough people to tender their shares). It won’t double or triple. A profit of $4 per share on 2000 shares isn’t going to let you retire.

On the other hand, Martha Stewart went to jail for lying to the grand jury about trying to save a $49,000 loss (after acting on insider information).

[sandiego]

I don’t know your financial status but I can’t imagine that your purchase of a few thousand shares would catch anyone’s attention.

Also, the stock won’t go up more than a few percent.

Lets say it is trading at $25 per share. The buyout offer MIGHT be for 10-20% above the market (in order to intice enough people to tender their shares). It won’t double or triple. A profit of $4 per share on 2000 shares isn’t going to let you retire.

On the other hand, Martha Stewart went to jail for lying to the grand jury about trying to save a $49,000 loss (after acting on insider information).

[sandiego]

I don’t know your financial status but I can’t imagine that your purchase of a few thousand shares would catch anyone’s attention.

Also, the stock won’t go up more than a few percent.

Lets say it is trading at $25 per share. The buyout offer MIGHT be for 10-20% above the market (in order to intice enough people to tender their shares). It won’t double or triple. A profit of $4 per share on 2000 shares isn’t going to let you retire.

On the other hand, Martha Stewart went to jail for lying to the grand jury about trying to save a $49,000 loss (after acting on insider information).

[Fearful]

The SEC investigates unusual activity in a stock. Its investigation diligence is independent of the sizes of transactions. So if there is unusual activity, and the SEC investigates, you could get in trouble for trading a single share. To be safe, you would have to route trades through an unrelated party – which would involve you transferring cash to that party, which would then be detected by the IRS, assuming you routed significant amounts of cash. And, as “sandiego” pointed out, if you do not do this with significant amounts of cash, it will not return enough to be worthwhile.

[Fearful]

The SEC investigates unusual activity in a stock. Its investigation diligence is independent of the sizes of transactions. So if there is unusual activity, and the SEC investigates, you could get in trouble for trading a single share. To be safe, you would have to route trades through an unrelated party – which would involve you transferring cash to that party, which would then be detected by the IRS, assuming you routed significant amounts of cash. And, as “sandiego” pointed out, if you do not do this with significant amounts of cash, it will not return enough to be worthwhile.

[Fearful]

The SEC investigates unusual activity in a stock. Its investigation diligence is independent of the sizes of transactions. So if there is unusual activity, and the SEC investigates, you could get in trouble for trading a single share. To be safe, you would have to route trades through an unrelated party – which would involve you transferring cash to that party, which would then be detected by the IRS, assuming you routed significant amounts of cash. And, as “sandiego” pointed out, if you do not do this with significant amounts of cash, it will not return enough to be worthwhile.

[Fearful]

The SEC investigates unusual activity in a stock. Its investigation diligence is independent of the sizes of transactions. So if there is unusual activity, and the SEC investigates, you could get in trouble for trading a single share. To be safe, you would have to route trades through an unrelated party – which would involve you transferring cash to that party, which would then be detected by the IRS, assuming you routed significant amounts of cash. And, as “sandiego” pointed out, if you do not do this with significant amounts of cash, it will not return enough to be worthwhile.

[one_muggle]

…that is, unless you are Merrill Lynch.
Then it’s just company policy.

Maybe we should be buying stock in porcine lipstick.

[one_muggle]

…that is, unless you are Merrill Lynch.
Then it’s just company policy.

Maybe we should be buying stock in porcine lipstick.

[one_muggle]

…that is, unless you are Merrill Lynch.
Then it’s just company policy.

Maybe we should be buying stock in porcine lipstick.

[one_muggle]

…that is, unless you are Merrill Lynch.
Then it’s just company policy.

Maybe we should be buying stock in porcine lipstick.

[simonbart]

There is just a lot of water-cooler talk at my job about a potential buy out coming down the pipeline.
Is it really insider information???
I’m sure the big analyists are already prepared for this type of thing…..and know how to profit from such a transaction. I’m just not sure how the normal joe blow can make a few bucks.

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