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Especially since everyone else is doing exactly the same. The entire point of social media is that it's not a secret.

But the whole point is that it's "passive" and trading is closed off-hours.

What if instead of that we use intel from insiders and buy stocks using that!

Oh wait, that's illegal when you're not a billionaire.

Don't forget you can do it when you're an elected representative too!

Except in very rare cases, congress people have no non-public material information.

Nancy Pelosi has as much clue as you about NVDAs prospects. Nancy makes more money than an average HN reader because she isn't too smart to worry about small risks that HN reader gets tripped up.

Every one knew about Covid coming. Worse, people who sold off during covid are worse off than the ones who just held it.

Indeed, everyone believes congresspeople have some special exception to insider trading rules. In fact, they are subject to the same insider trading rules as everyone else, and the conduct they engage in simply doesn’t meet the (unintuitive) legal definition of insider trading.

Some efforts to impose a different, more expansive definition on congresspeople have failed, which might be the source of that misconception.