UPDATED! What is insider trading? Do you have to be an "insider" or executive to commit it?

Insider trading, which is illegal, occurs when someone possesses inside information about an important but secret development at a company and then trades that company's securities to gain an advantage from the movement of the stock price that will occur when the information is made public...

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