How the SEC Hunts You at Every Level of Insider Trading

You are twenty six and you sell things over the phone for a brokerage that will not remember your name. Your friend Owen, who has been your friend since you were nineteen, is doing well now, and one night at the bar he tells you a thing he should not have told you, and then laughs it off as if it were nothing. You laugh too. And then you go home and sit at your kitchen table with the laptop open and the phone face down beside it, and you do not know yet what you are. This is what happens across the next four years, level by level, as one trade becomes a pattern, the pattern becomes a referral, and a woman at the SEC who has never met you opens a file with your name on it. The subpoena. The wire on your friend's collar. The knock at six in the morning. The proffer room, where the only thing you have left to sell is the person who sold you. The sentence, and the camp, and the day you come out and find the pale band on your wrist where the watch used to be. Every episode takes a lot of research and writing. Drop your next video idea in the comments, I read them all. Subscribe so you don't miss the next one! 🔔 0:00 The Drink 2:08 The Trade 3:59 The Pattern 6:10 The Referral 8:02 The Subpoena 10:06 The Wire 12:03 The Knock 14:12 The Proffer 16:14 The Sentence 18:13 The Tan Line