I love this set of advisory rules, as laid out in brilliant dry wit by the wonderful Matt Levine:

10 Laws of Insider Trading

1. Don’t do it.
2. Don’t do it by buying short-dated out-of-the-money call options on merger targets.
3. Don’t text or email about it.
4. Don’t do it in your mother’s account.
5. Don’t do it by planting bombs at a company and shorting its stock.
6. Don’t do it while employed at the Securities and Exchange Commission.
7. Don’t Google “how to insider trade without getting caught” before doing it.
8. If you didn’t insider trade, don’t forget and accidentally confess to insider trading.
9. If you are going to insider trade, do it in a company that is far away from a Securities and Exchange Commission office. Like, physically.
10. If you are already under a federal ethics investigation about your ownership or promotion of a stock, don’t insider trade that stock.

Go read the entire column here . . .

Source:
The 10 Laws of Insider Trading
By Matt Levine
Bloomberg August 12, 2018
https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-08-12/the-10-laws-of-insider-trading