Insider Trading And Following Trade / Investment Advice
Insider trading or stock manipulation (artificially raising price of a security by a sudden and planned rush of demand or by Influencing a large group of people to raise demand and thus also the price) are unfair, unethical and illegal ways of earning profits. Moreover, these practices cheat the genuine investors in the capital market and create instability in the market. There is no justification or excuse for such unethical and fraudulent practices from any standpoint, no matter how lucrative they seem. They should not just be avoided but reported to the authorities as a responsible citizen of society in the interest of justice. Securities & Exchange commission has usually a hotline for whistleblowers and complainants. Please also see verse 2:188: [2:188] AND DEVOUR NOT one another’s possessions wrongfully, and neither employ legal artifices163 with a view to devouring sinfully, and knowingly, anything that by right belongs to others.