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Grubhub CEO sells stock before making damaging statements

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Re: Grubhub CEO sells stock before making damaging statements

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It was the day before. Your point about it being an email is exactly my point this could be taken as him knowing something that nobody else did and thus selling his shares. Just looks odd

In this the "something else" would be knowing that the CEO is about to send a stupid email the next day? If he anticipated it would leak and tank the stock wouldn't he have more likely just run it by some folks and sent something less poorly worded?

Right, yea, the something else would have been knowing that in the event of a Trump victory he'd send out this email which could likely hurt the company (it'd naturally get leaked). Obviously it's a bit of a stretch, because why would he intentionally hurt his own company? I just thought it was a bit odd-looking.

Another user in this thread pointed out that this seems to be a monthly thing the CEO does, so this no longer appears as strange.

Re: Grubhub CEO sells stock before making damaging statements

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Let him sell the damn stock... He thinks he's selling off of a 52 week high. What you can do is go to your bank and get an online trading account. Make sure the bank will allow you to short NYSE:GRUB before you sign on. Then, buy PUT OPTIONS thru Jan 2018... nearer term puts are safer, but Matt Maloney deserves a whole years worth of headaches for this... Got any really rich republican friends? Tell them all about this strategy!

Re: Grubhub CEO sells stock before making damaging statements

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Let him sell the damn stock... He thinks he's selling off of a 52 week high. What you can do is go to your bank and get an online trading account. Make sure the bank will allow you to short NYSE:GRUB before you sign on. Then, buy PUT OPTIONS thru Jan 2018... nearer term puts are safer, but Matt Maloney deserves a whole years worth of headaches for this... Got any really rich republican friends? Tell them all about this strategy!

Re: Grubhub CEO sells stock before making damaging statements

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The transaction was before the elections. Looks perfectly normal to me.

Are you living in a world where people are incapable of preplanning their actions in order to intentionally cause a downward correction in the stock, so that they can later sell it for a higher price and make money this way? Talk to the SEC and see if they agree with you :P
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