make profitable
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That can create tempting opportunities for people with nonpublic knowledge to make profitable bets at the expense of less-informed traders.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 28, 2026
He’s also aware that members of Congress often have special access to insider information that they can use to make profitable stock trades.
From Slate • Aug. 8, 2024
Prosecutors claimed that Mr. Huber and Mr. Olan used the information to make profitable decisions worth over $3 million from 2012 to 2014, the Associated Press reported.
From Washington Times • Dec. 28, 2022
One former Susquehanna executive recalled Yass acknowledging using a trading strategy in which a main goal was not to make profitable trades, but to avoid taxes.
From Salon • Jun. 21, 2022
The German was so put out by the sudden giving up of a room, which he hoped to make profitable, that he asked an extra day's rent, and to his surprise, got it.
From Wild Bill's Last Trail by Buntline, Ned
