How do people generally get convicted of insider trading? If you have a friendship with someone in senior management of a business on the stock exchange, does that mean that if you invest in it and end up with a great ROI, you’d be investigated, charged, and potentially convicted?

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I should have rephrased my question. Would knowing an executive and making a huge profit on a couple trades be enough evidence to get convicted of insider trading?

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Answer 1

Maybe.

But if I go ta DM from some random guy on Reddit, there’s no way I could know that it was insider information, so I would be in the clear.

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Answer 2

Maybe.

But if I go ta DM from some random guy on Reddit, there’s no way I could know that it was insider information, so I would be in the clear.

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