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4 February 2013updated 22 Oct 2020 3:55pm

400ms of insider information

High frequency (insider) trading.

By Alex Hern

Nanex Research has found what looks like insider trading in the natural gas market prior to the release of the US Energy Information Administration’s natural gas report. The quirk is that that insider trading happened just 400 milliseconds before the report was released:

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