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I don’t know if your are just ignorant or if your are intentionally misleading people but this system is widely abused. A stock sale can be schedule in your plan at the end of every month and you can elect to cancel a planned sale at any time. The CEO used exactly this type of sham plan to unload his shares. Look at the plan he filed this year and the plan he filed every year for the last three years.

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> A stock sale can be schedule in your plan at the end of every month and you can elect to cancel a planned sale at any time.

Canceling a 10b5-1 is not in and of itself a violation, correct, but it can kill your affirmative defense as it jeopardizes the good faith element.

However, they would have had to have entered into the 10b5-1 prior to them coming into material nonpublic information in the first place for it to have been valid at all. My point is they made the decision to sell before they knew what was happening and filed a compliant trading plan.

Sounds fair, but lucky.

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