Research or Insider Trading? A Guide

What constitutes legitimate research?  When is the insider trading line crossed?

Many of the financial blogosphere’s luminaries, like Felix Salmon, John Carney and Roger Ehrenberg, are carrying on this debate right now.

And since I’m in the solutions business, I’ve created the below guide that may help a bit…

Just my 2 cents.

Some of my other guides:

Venture, Angel or Private Placement?  (TRB)

Decoding Mutual Fund Brochures (TRB)

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