A huge and very strange trade happened in the futures market just five minutes before Donald Trump shared that he was stopping strikes on Iranian power plants.
In one big move, someone bought $1.5 billion worth of S&P 500 futures contracts at the same time they sold $192 million in oil futures.
A futures bet is basically a big bet on where the market is going.
These orders were four to six times bigger than any other trades happening at that moment. The trader probably made a lot of money when the markets went up after Trump’s announcement.
Senator Chris Murphy pointed this out right away: “$1.5 BILLION.
Let me say it again — a $1.5 BILLION BET. Bigger than any futures trades at that time. Five minutes before Trump’s post. Who was it? Trump? A family member? A White House aide? This is corruption. Mind-blowing corruption.”
This comes as Trump has often used his Truth Social posts to influence the markets, and his administration has been accused of helping people inside the system while regular Americans deal with rising gas prices, wild stock market changes, and the Strait of Hormuz being full of mines and drones.
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