How to catch an insider trader
To Catch a Trader. FRONTLINE correspondent Martin Smith goes inside the government’s ongoing, seven-year crackdown on insider trading, drawing on exclusively obtained video of hedge fund titan Steven A. Cohen, incriminating FBI wiretaps of other traders, and interviews with both Wall … On Tuesday evening, “Frontline” took a comprehensive look at the investigation of insider trading on Wall Street in “To Catch a Trader.” This is a report about how hedge funds, including Steven A. Cohen’s SAC Capital Advisors, sought an “edge” by gathering information about companies to trade ahead of other investors, reaping outsize gains.