TLDR Apple’s new Form 10-K bars employees and contractors from using confidential information on prediction markets. The ban also covers confidential details about suppliers, manufacturers, vendors, carriers, and other partners. Staff cannot tip inside information to others who may trade on these platforms. Apple also forbids staff from shorting its stock or trading put options. The rules arrive about three weeks after the SEC approved Cboe event contracts tied to Apple and 22 other companies.
Apple has added new limits on prediction market trading to its annual report. The rules apply to employees and contractors who come across confidential information through their work.
The policy appears in Apple’s latest Form 10-K filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The filing has a long section on insider trading, with one part focused only on prediction markets.
Apple is the world’s largest company by market value. Its product launches and company events are often the subject of yes or no contracts on these platforms.
If you’re an Apple employee or contractor planning to make money using insider information to gamble in legally-gray “prediction markets,” don’t. Apple has made its stance clear in a new filing.
— AppleInsider (@appleinsider) November 3, 2026
What the New Policy Covers
Apple tells staff not to wager, bet, trade, buy, or sell event contracts when that activity uses Apple confidential information. This includes any information gained in connection with work at Apple.
The rule reaches past Apple itself. It also covers confidential details about other companies, including Apple suppliers, manufacturers, vendors, and customers such as cellular network carriers.
Staff are also banned from passing that information to others who may trade on these markets. Apple said confidential information includes, but is not limited to, material nonpublic information.
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