Technically, and the technical is important because it is a legal thing, Insider Trading is buying or selling based on knowledge that you have from within an organisation which is not yet public. OK, for the letter of the law, there is always a search-engine.
Passing on the same inside information to others is a different thing. It is Insider Tipping. Both are very serious things, and are taken very seriously :-) Oh, and if you receive a Tip and you act on it you are doing Insider Trading. The TWS thing is most likely rumour. If you trade on rumour, you are probably safe from Insider Trading. And yes, they do check. They check very closely. On Sunday, 10 July 2016 18:47:02 UTC+2, Lizette Koehler wrote: > If this were public knowledge, I would think there would be news items on IBM > website or the Financial companies would be sending out notices of the sale > or potential sale. > > Since I am not seeing anything at this time, possibly false rumor. Or the > deal is not completed to the point where it can be commented on in the public. > > There are strict rules governing Stocks and Sales here in the USA. Nothing > can be shared (that would be insider trading) until the deal is done. > > Lizette ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
