RE: RRR Australia, DRC, Kenya, FASO, Cote d'Ivoire etc: Poster Reputations27 May 2024 21:56
News you posted this "An insider, as long as they only communicate public information and only trade on publicly available information, and not during a period of restriction is not insider trading, same with anyone else e.g. less than 10% holding but...can only be on publicly available information."
Your statement is simply wrong Any profit gain while in possession of 'insider information' is criminal. Any defense that you only made a trade on publicly available information will fail under the USA and Canadian Securities law.
Most if not major public companies in the USA/CDN prohibit certain employees from trading ANY of their shares, options, warrants etc during certain periods of time (dealing with earnings, news releases etc)
It is comical to suggest that anyone could defeat a charge of insider trading simply by stating I did not make that trade on the insider information that I had. Dangerous if anyone actually believed what you wrote