"a long time ago I owned a broker dealer and we had a trading desk and maybe once a week or so I would sit behind the trading desk and I would trade the stocks we made a market in or I would get a phone call from one of my friends from a wire house saying look go in and buy this stock right now because we've got a big buyer coming in and you're going to be able to retail it back out to them at a higher price it's called front running it's illegal but welcome to the world of investing everybody d...