How long before people figure out ways to take short positions on stocks and then provoke Trump into saying something nasty about the corp?
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would that be legal? I know zero about security laws but think it might be...
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I thought (maybe mistakenly) that shorting a stock and then trying to hurt the company was legal as an outsider
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as a true outsider, yes... so long as you disclose positions under certain conditions. As insider it would be outright illegal.
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so I'm guessing, for example, a news producer could legally short a stock and then run a story intended to provoke Trump into tweeting.
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(would obviously break ethics code of any reputable news outlet, obvs)
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