Is it insider trading if I bought Boeing puts while inside the wrecked airplane?
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Is it insider trading if I bought Boeing puts while inside the wrecked airplane?
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#2lol no, but also ssshhhhhhhh
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#3My man you deserve every dollar you make from that trade
Re: Is it insider trading if I bought Boeing puts while inside the wrecked airplane?
#4IANAL, but I don't see how. If you're just an ordinary person, you're trading based on an event you witnessed in the course of going about your life. No different I would think than if you witnessed a plane crash. You might be investigated though if the amounts were large enough.
It gets much more complicated I would think if you were an air traffic controller or otherwise learned about it in a professional capacity.
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#5Original post from 16 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38948827
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#6Isn't the practical answer: "it depends on which way the wind is blowing when the regulators or courts make their decisions"? If they want to get you for something, they will find a way.
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#7It's not if you don't have a fiduciary duty to Boeing.
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#8of course not - you are not an 'insider' if all you are as a customer with a bad experience - no different than you buying puts on restaurant where you think the food is terrible or even made you sick.
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#9No, it is not. If you do not have a fiduciary relationship with Boeing and you have no confidentiality obligations with respect to the information, you are not trading on inside information. If you're in the plane when the door blows up, you're just the first person with material public information. You're not trading on material non-public information.
See, e.g.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/misappropriation_theory_of_i...
Re: Is it insider trading if I bought Boeing puts while inside the wrecked airplane?
#10of course not - you are not an 'insider' if all you are as a customer with a bad experience - no different than you buying puts on restaurant where you think the food is terrible or even made you sick.
You’re “insider” the airplane!