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July 6

Automated screens for insider trading

As regards insider trading on the stock market, are there automated systems that look through the whole market's data and try to identify red flags (e.g. trading heavily slightly before market moving news becomes available)? I know the data is available to review individual trading histories if you know who and what you are looking for, but I was wondering if any organization tries to find evidence of such trades without knowing in advance who to target? For a legal case you'd need to build more evidence than just trading patterns, but it could be a way to suggest who to investigate. Dragons flight (talk) 22:38, 6 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

For the United States, it falls under the purview of the Securities and Exchange Commission. Other countries probably have something similiar. They do catch people, so I imagine that they must have a way to monitor activity without knowing who they are looking for in advance. RudolfRed (talk) 23:15, 6 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, they almost certainly monitor the markets for suspicious trading patterns. I'm not familiar with the details of how and what they look for though, but around major announcement there's more scrutiny than usual. Shadowjams (talk) 18:56, 7 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I live in Canada Where can I buy a pager online and which company would I be paying for the device monthly for?

Where can I buy a pager online and which company would I be paying for the device monthly for? Venustar84 (talk) 23:45, 6 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

You can order a pager on line from any almost retailer that sells them. (Google "pager".) If you have a smart phone, you can also get an app that allows it to act as a pager. As to who you would pay for the service, you can get a contract with any provider. Bell and Rogers are the two biggest nationally. Bielle (talk) 00:41, 7 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

As our Pager article points out, given the cheapness and prevalence of text messaging, pagers are fast dying out as a means of alerting someone. But they are still available - and just like cellphones, you can pick one up for almost nothing with a service plan. But unless you are working with an existing organization that demands them (who you'd hope would provide you with a pager to use) - I'd stick with text messaging on a cellphone. SteveBaker (talk) 13:25, 7 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]