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Insider Trading Lessons For Executives

By Mark H. Astarita, Esq.

I am constantly amazed at the amount of insider trading cases brought by the Commission. While the SEC often goes overboard in their cases, and sues individuals who did nothing wrong, (see, Mark Cuban), the simple fact is there are far too many occasions where an individual, and in particular a corporate executive, is charged with insider trading.I suppose that there is the thought that the trader will not get caught, and the allure of big profits is simply too much to ignore. However, in this day and age, it is extremely easy to track down insider trading.  The Commission has extensive tools at its disposal to do so. The simple fact is that the Commission will look at every account that purchased a stock prior to the disclosure of the material information...continue to full post

Full post as published by SECLaw.com on March 18, 2011 (boomark / email).