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Insider Trading - Introduction - What is?
Introduction
  1. Who are "Insiders"
    Corporate officers, directors, and 10% owners

  2. What is "Insider Trading"
    Corporate insiders buy and sell stock in their own companies

  3. Insider Trading Law
  • Short-swing profits (profits realized in any period less than six months) by corporate insiders in their own corporation's stock are prohibited
  • Insider transactions must be reported to the SEC by filing a FORM 4 within two business days of the date the transaction occurred (2002 Sarbanes-Oxley Act)