"Their algorithms are designed to pick up on stock prices fluctuating before major corporate announcements, indicating that those buying or selling have insider knowledge..."<p>As someone who has coded high frequency algos that tracked orders and fill rate velocity, I love this little tidbit of knowledge that FINRA utilizes it's own types of analysis. It intrigues me to imagine the accuracy and dismissal of false positives. <i>sorry nerding out on the tech</i>
My favorite part is when the Ukrainian officials start their own version of the plot instead of prosecuting. Something to be said about intellectual honesty.
The SEC complaint from 2015 is also a fun read: <a href="http://www.sec.gov/litigation/complaints/2015/comp-pr2015-163.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://www.sec.gov/litigation/complaints/2015/comp-pr2015-16...</a>
I knew Igor a few months before his arrest. He worked as a general contractor for renovating houses. I was told he was on the cheaper end for contractors, but I was surprised to see him driving an Audi/ sports car when my previous contractor had a beat up ford.
... in your newswire database.<p>"GE To Declare Bankruptcy", "Lockheed Sold to Chinese", etc. Sit back and watch idiots buy fake info and lose billions.
So did anyone studied SEC insider trading convictions and then went back to trading records to train AI/DL networks to learn to detect insider trading patterns in close-to-real time?
"The logic being that the early trades were made on the basis of someone else’s insider information"<p>This was one guy's defense. I love this - partly because so much of trading and investing is what I call "self fulfilling". There's only a trade to be done because other people are doing a trade.
Why do we keep a newswire database that stores these things before being published? Why don't companies and officials not hold on to these documents themselves?<p>You could say newswire are better at protecting, but the companies who write the press releases will likely have a copy stores both before and after it enters newswire
> profits made public by the SEC stands at over $100 million, but that represents only a fraction of the money authorities believe was made<p>I wonder, if they gained this much, who lost this much? Or nobody lost?
Anyone else find this bit kinda creepy?<p>> The Dubovoys used the same brokerage accounts repeatedly, and they owned some of them directly or through immediate family members with shared surnames. Their association could also be easily confirmed through the fact that they were part of the same church community.<p>Is there a database out there where you can search "SELECT * FROM PEOPLE WHERE communities INCLUDES (SELECT communities WHERE lastName = "Dubovoys");" If you know what I mean.
Funny they should have caught them on Dendreon trading. Main takeaway ... if you’re going to do insider trading make sure you are really on the inside. (ie. Wall St and US govt)