SEC Charges Golfing Buddies With Insider Trading

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Mark Melin
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In what is likely the more expensive rounds of golf, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) today charged a group of friends, most of them golfing buddies at a country club, typically a tight knit circle, who made more than $554,000 of illegal profits from trading on inside information gleaned within the sanctuary of the golf course. SEC tracking down those who seek an unfair advantage trading stocks “Whether the tips are passed on the golf course, in a bar, or elsewhere, the SEC will continue to track down those who seek an unfair advantage trading stocks,” said Paul G….

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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.