I remember insider trading being roughly defined as "trading on non-public information which can be considered to be relevant to the share price" during our company training. At least in our company, most of the non-public information that the engineers have isn't really going to rock the stock price, since it's usually just feature additions to existing products. I imagine it'd be quite a lot different if you were working at for example Apple and knew that they were going to release a whole new product (and not just the iPhone X+1).
My biggest giveaway from the company training was to just avoid the company stock. Life is much easier that way.
>My biggest giveaway from the company training was to just avoid the company stock. Life is much easier that way.
That has always been my approach, but I also have never worked for a company that routinely gives stock to employees. Having a tilt in your investment portfolio towards your employer is a big risk concentrator (company goes downhill, you might get laid off at the same time), not to mention the potential issues with insider trading or the appearance of insider trading.
My biggest giveaway from the company training was to just avoid the company stock. Life is much easier that way.