Insider Trading Inside a Wrecked Plane

Is it insider trading if I bought Boeing puts while I am inside the wrecked airplane? Purely hypothetical of cause: Imagine sitting in an airplane when suddenly the fucking door blows out. Now, while everyone is screaming and grasping for air, you instead turn on your noise-cancelling head-phones to ignore that crying baby next to you, calmly open your robin-hood app (or whatever broker you prefer, idc), and load up on Boeing puts. There is no way the market couldve already priced that in, it is literally just happening. Would that be considered insider trading? I mean you are literally inside that wreck of an airplane... On the other hand, one could argue that you are also outside the airplane, given that the door just blew off...

A Reddit-style joke imagines someone buying Boeing put options through the Robinhood app while trapped inside a wrecked airplane. The punchline plays on the double meaning of “insider trading”: the person has immediate inside knowledge of the crash, while also being literally inside the airplane. It is used as an absurd reaction to jokes about finance, Boeing, or exploiting disasters for profit.

• @ithueti / 11486 2024-01-10