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This has been done in the past but by digging through CEOs' history. For example a good number of them put fake school credentials on their resume.

Someone would go to the university and search their records and sometimes find CEOs lied. He then would take a short position in company's stock (if publicly traded) and release the info. Sure enough, the stock would drop, and he would gain. SEC didn't like but I think the was nothing they could do as it was technically public information.



It's still being done - see e.g. http://www.muddywatersresearch.com - and there's no reason an outfit like that couldn't publish a report as Anonymous...


There is nothing wrong with this either. It's trading based on research of publicly available information - exactly what you should be doing.




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