/biz/ - Business & Finance

>>20109648
>literally hack into various places to get an edge like that institution did a few weeks ago
Are you talking about last year’s BOE audio feed scandal?

>>19975717
>I thought the big secret hedge funds do insider
I don’t think they even need insider.

I think the big secret is that they have access to creative and expensive ways of obtaining information that most of us would never even think of. You know how corporations and governments hire white hat hackers to test their systems? These people have the money to outbid them, and they don’t need to rely only on white hats.

I think they have ways of getting cellphone records, electronic communications, video feeds, gps tracking etc. They probably have cameras and mics set up to read lips from afar, or pick up audio from a great distance. They can monitor movements of key players by tracking their phones or see who’s talking to who before mergers and acquisitions are made public. They hack audio feeds to find out central bank policy, earnings results, trade policy decisions, all sorts of things.

We know there’s all sorts of government and corporate espionage, but no one ever talks about it in the financial world.

See pic for a recent example.

>>19975660
I’m not sure about the headwinds to semis in an isolationist world. Trade is going to be more contentious between the Us and China no matter who wins in November. I need to find out who in China and the rest of the world ISNT going to be harmed by this, and who might even benefit.

US business that supply the chinese with semis and foundry equipment could get really fucked, and vice-versa. I posted some DD about this recently but no one really cared. And I don’t know enough to figure out who’s really going to win or lose, but the indexes (SOXX and SOXL) may not be the way to play it.