How to Trade on Insider Information and Get Away with It

Genius.
From Long or Short Capital:

We previously published a brief for investors on How to Hold Based on Insider Information that resulted in a lot of our readership profitting substantially. But correspondence we have received from some readers in jail indicates that some investors are unclear on a second important part about insider trading, the often neglected “getting away with it” part of the buy, sell or hold.

1. Have a position in a company which issues tradeable public securities (stocks, options, bonds, etc).
2. Obtain material non-public information from insiders of this same company.
3. Buy, sell, do not buy or do not sell any of this company’s tradeable public securities.
4. Send a letter to the SEC detailing at length the ways in which you are using material non-public inforomation to profit. The at length part is crucial so pretend like you are writing a doctortal thesis that you have to defend against people who will never read it because it was too long and too boring.
5. Profit.

Note: You might recognize Step 4 from How to Commit Financial Fraud and Get Away With It

How many commentators read the story of Bernie Madoff and Harry Markopolos' dogged attempts to get the SEC to shut the fraud down without understanding the strategy that could be developed from the fact set?

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...See "Gaming the System: Are Hedge Fund Managers Talented, or Just Good at Fooling Investors? " from Knowledge@Wharton.

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