Inside Ebomi
I’m an assistant professor of finance at the University of Melbourne. On paper, my research is about corporate governance. That means looking at how the people running companies don’t always act in the best interests of the shareholders they’re supposed to serve. In practice, it means studying the ways insiders bend the rules, cut corners, or quietly enrich themselves while the rest of us look the other way.
During COVID, I became hooked on insider trading. We wrote this article showing how executives’ trades looked different when the world was falling apart. Since then, I’ve been knee-deep in insider trading data, publishing a dataset and paper that opened the hood on the raw filings.
Ebomi is my indie hacker side project. It takes the same raw SEC filings that power academic research and makes them usable for real people. Filtered, fast, and delivered straight to your inbox. No hedge fund subscription. No middlemen. Just the signals that matter.
I like talking about insider trading: when it happens, how to detect it, what it means. I don’t promise to answer every cold email though. Think of Ebomi as a way to share that curiosity without drowning in the noise.
As time allows, I’d like to start bringing more of this academic perspective to Ebomi subscribers. The goal is to help interpret signals rather than just forward filings. For instance, insider selling isn’t always as telling as it looks. Many executives receive stock as compensation and then sell simply to pay taxes, fund consumption, or diversify their wealth. But research (see this JF paper on decoding insiders) shows that when insiders sell outside their usual patterns, that can be more suspicious. That’s the kind of context I want to share. The aim is to make raw filings smarter and more useful without the hedge fund jargon.