The strict £2,500 boundary for what counts as a 'longshot bet' seems like a convenient, rather than effective, filter for finding market manipulation.
Who exactly benefits from such a rigid definition, especially when someone trying to hide insider trading could easily just split their buy into two £1,500 transactions?
This kind of incentive to simply workaround the rule means it’s less about catching actual bad actors and more about having a simple box to tick for analysis.