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- From: c6y092@rick.cs.ubc.ca (Julien Rene Sellgren)
- Newsgroups: misc.invest
- Subject: _Inside_Out_: a tale of insider trading
- Date: 21 Jan 1993 17:03:44 -0800
- Organization: Computer Science, University of B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada
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- I am currently reading _Inside Out_, by Dennis Levine, and I my
- jaw is hanging.
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- It is a true story about Wall Street during the roaring eighties,
- when the markets and the Merger and Aquisition Business were
- booming. Levine tells a factual tale about his carreer both as a
- corporate deal-maker, and as a private inside trader. He was
- the first of many big players to get busted for his illegal trades.
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- What amazes me is how much money these guys were pulling in, and
- how easy it was for them to do it. Before he got caught and
- arrested in 1986, his insider deals were netting one million
- dollars +. Incredible. Throughout the whole book, he constantly
- re-iterates how easy it was: He simply went to work, and when
- he found out through the normal course of daily business that
- a company was beeing 'aquired' he would take up a position in
- that company via his secret account in the Carabean. When the
- takeover announcement was made public, he would sell out for an
- incredible profit...
-
- The cool thing about this book is that he goes into great detail
- about the deals and the players he was involed with. I am finding
- it fascinating to learn how all these companies (whos names
- I recongnize) were traded around like hockey cards by these billion
- dollar tycoons.
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- I am not advocating insider trading, but this is a fascinating story.
-
- -Julien
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