DON'T BE GUILTY OF TRADING INSIDE INFORMATION TO MAKE A QUICK BUCK
Over the years there have been some securities professionals whom the SEC has accused of illegally using inside information to make gains on trading stocks. Don't allow yourself to fall into this trap. It could ruin your career in the securities business, as well as subject you to fines, civil penalties, and even criminal convictions.
FINRA specifies in its Content Outline for the Securities Industry Essentials exam that you should expect questions about Insider Trading on the exam. See SIE Content Outline, Section 3.3.2.
Bob Eder discusses insider trading in detail in his Study for the Securities Industry Essentials Exam. Here is a sample of Bob Eder's treatment of using inside information:
EXAMPLE
Jason, a hedge fund manager, is managing several billions of
client monies. He asks for and receives confidential information about XYZ
Corp.’s forthcoming earnings from Bill, a friend, who happens to be on XYZ’s
board. Bill tells Jason that XYZ will unexpectedly report very good earnings.
Five minutes after his conversation with Bill, Jason instructs his traders to
purchase 100,000 shares of XYZ. Later, investigations show that many of the
investors who sold XYZ shares to Jason’s firm were small mom-and-pop investors.
Would they have sold their XYZ shares to Jason if they had known of the
forthcoming earnings bonanza?
Here is the link to FINRA's Content Outline for the SIE exam. See the references to Inside Information in FINRA's Content Outline, section 3.3.2.
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