My thoughts/questions on the Allan Thompson issue: 1. How could he be trading on his own account, but not have personal gain? (was he that bad at trading?) My uneducated understanding of the market is that, the market is a zero sums game? So if these "corporates" where making money and Allan stopped them from doing so who made the money, or was Allan putting money into the market to help the rest of us? 2. If Allan is the "Hero" here and inncoent, why does he not name and shame those Evil corporates and explain the loopholes so that the entire market can understand it? Could there be some sort of non-disclosure agreement between Allan and the JSE where he got to keep the money? It's interesting that South African are opposing the "Secrecy Act" but the JSE (Supposedly good Corporate Citizen) does not follow the rules on transparency and the Prevention of Organised Crime Act ... Makes one thing?
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