cristian

Insider Trading on UUP Options?

Nah... that is the beauty of working with somebody else's money ;-) Why do morons do the things they do ? The possibilities are infinite !


On Nov 06 07:42 AM Mark Anthony wrote:

> Karl:
>
> So exactly what "insider" information they traded on? Do these guys
> have some "insider" knowledge about the US dollar that the rest of
> us do not know?
>
> If it was a company stock, some one may have known some insider knowledge
> of the company that is not publicly known.
>
> But this UUP is merely a US dollar bullish ETF fund. There can not
> be any insider information you can leverage. You bet a US dollar
> bull you buy it, you bet a US dollar bear you sell it.
>
> The only plausible "insider" information I could even think of, and
> as you suggested, is that some one know they will need regulatory
> filing to issue new shares. But isn't it public knowledge that they
> are approaching the allowed number of shares as per the prospectus,
> and hence they will have to register more shares? Any one who cares
> to do a little bit due diligence would have known it before hand.
> There is nothing secret here.
>
> It does seem a bit weird that UUP and UDN was not trading against
> each other yesterday, as they usuaully SHOULD.

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