SEC charges Netflix insider trading ring
&quot;This case reflects our continued use of sophisticated analytical tools to detect, unravel and halt pernicious insider trading schemes that involve multiple tippers, traders, and market events.&quot;<p>Lol, I don&#x27;t think there&#x27;s a lot of sophistication in this. They want to make it sound like some sort of powerful magic box they have that can find anyone doing something dubious when in reality this is probably a very simple interesection between two datasets:<p>The one that contains all the people who yielded profits over X amount when trading the stock of a Y company during a timeframe, and another dataset that contains all the current and former employees of that Y company.<p>That&#x27;s the thing about insider trading. People who do it are just complete idiots. They think that they can leverage some assymetry of information when in reality there&#x27;s no such thing. If you trade the stock of your current or former employer (especially before earnings calls) and yield unrealistic gains you&#x27;re going to get flagged and someone is going to manually review your shit.