Questions tagged [securities]

Let's say you hear two executives of a publicly-traded company discussing, in a public space, an upcoming earnings report, impending product release, bankruptcy, or some other material information that is non-public. Is it illegal to trade that…

Person A establish a brokerage account with an online brokerage XYZ. He then gives person B authority to trade the account. The XYZ brokerage account gives person A and person B to different user names. Each user name access the account. Person B…

I am a bit new to trading and hope that I am making this post in the appropriate place to ask. I saw a few questions on wash trading but I am still a bit confused on the specifics (I describe a specific use case below) I have been mostly…