Marginal Revolution: Very Fast Insider Trading

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Very Fast Insider Trading Feb 2nd 2013, 14:49 On January 31, 2013, approximately 400 milliseconds before the official release of the EIA Natural Gas Report, trading activity exploded in Natural Gas Futures and ETFs such as UGZ, UNG and BOIL. Now that the Feds have stated (as claimed by a recent WSJ article) that they don’t think there is merit in prosecuting people who get news information earlier than others by milliseconds, is it any wonder? More here. Previous MR posts on high frequency trading.

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