CNBC today reported the spike in Equity options and sells for Oil futures, 15 mins before Trump rotated markets with a single social media post. Will there ever be an SEC investigation?
Volume in stock and oil futures surged minutes before Trump’s Iran post https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/23/volume-in-stock-and-oil-futures-surged-minutes-before-trumps-market-turning-post.html?\_\_source=iosappshare%7Ccom.apple.UIKit.activity.CopyToPasteboard.
Algorithmic or Insider Trading? … Again!
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Sec? Non functional org under teump regime?
It was a coincidence. The previous time as well. The time before that too. And before that. And so on.
IMO it looks more like insider trading or information leak. Market expectation before Trump’s postponement tweet was to short stocks overall and long on oil gas and the USD, so liquidity was better in that direction, a very convenient setup for contrarian orders to minimize slippage. Nonetheless, the spike in trade volume still managed to swing the price in the opposite direction. To trade in such a way would have been a risky strategy to implement automatically by algorithms.
It’s so blatant at this point, but trump will never face any repercussions. He never does. It’s almost sickening how flawed and unfair the world is when a guy like this can seemingly do whatever he wants and never face any real consequences for his actions.
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> Will there ever be an SEC investigation?
Lol