Comment by cowpig

1 day ago

Well, there are laws against insider trading.

Prediction markets advertise insider trading as a feature, and enforcement of financial crimes is a racket anyway. If you know the right people, make the right campaign contributions, laws just don't apply to you.

Is shorting a company and then murdering its CEO considered insider trading in your jurisdiction?

  • That wouldn't be insider trading; in fact unless the CEO's death was known to insiders, it almost by definition couldn't be insider trading.

    It could be other types of fraud, however.