Today in a Manhattan courtroom, David Einhorn and Greenlight Capital’s legal team will explain to a court why the finance website Seeking Alpha should reveal the identity of a heretofore anonymous blogger who revealed information on Greenlight’s stock holdings. Readers will recall that ValueWalk was the first to reveal the court documents, and in a later article that day, we questioned the real issue in the lawsuit – freedom of the press. Today The New York Times’ Andrew Ross Sorkin writes, “The case could be a watershed for both the reporting of financial news using anonymous sources, and perhaps more important, the…
Einhorn, Seeking Alpha Go To Court Today
Mark Melin
Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.