Einhorn, Seeking Alpha Go To Court Today

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Mark Melin
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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…

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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.