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**xtrslots** · 05-29-2010, 10:11 AM

One often hears that the insider rules are set up to protect investors from getting ripped off.

This is of course bull since purpose of the market is to aggregate information, wtf subvert this by theoretically excluding informed participants? Just warn individual investors that trying to pick stocks is likley to end up with them getting ripped off, they should know this anyway even with the ban in place.

Also, the argument that more insider trading would produce less net stock investment is overstated.

05-29-2010, 10:11 AM	#11
xtrslots Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 509 Senior Member	One often hears that the insider rules are set up to protect investors from getting ripped off. This is of course bull since purpose of the market is to aggregate information, wtf subvert this by theoretically excluding informed participants? Just warn individual investors that trying to pick stocks is likley to end up with them getting ripped off, they should know this anyway even with the ban in place. Also, the argument that more insider trading would produce less net stock investment is overstated.
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