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Kurt's avatar

There is a paper trail for each trade. Sort by profitability and interrogate from the top down.

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PK Shrivastava's avatar

What an eye-opener! Jack, your analysis exposes an undeniable breach of market integrity, where precisely timed trades ahead of the President's policy shift strongly points to insider trading. You are absolutely correct that we need to demand answers. The SEC, CFTC, and FINRA must act swiftly. Failing to investigate and hold the responsible parties accountable sets a dangerous precedentβ€”one that signals to market manipulators that these abuses are permissible.

I was genuinely surprised to read about this; I had believed that, in this new era of transparency and heightened focus on justice, such blatant manipulations might be behind us. Clearly, that was wishful thinking on my part.

You are right: we are getting screwed, or should I say that we continue to get screwed?

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Hub's avatar

It would not surprise me. Government insider trading has been going on for decades.

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Hub's avatar
Apr 12Edited

It’s a game as old as time, private profits and public losses. It happened under the Bush administration, Clinton, Biden and now Trump. You probably don’t remember all the times insider trading has been occurring. In fact, it’s not even illegal. Politicians trade on insider information all the time.

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Rev. π‰πšπœπ€ 𝐑𝐨𝐬𝐑𝐒's avatar

I remember them, and I was born in the '70s, brother. I looked into them today since I have all historical data since the beginning of the stock market, and nothing was as big and blatant as this. Millions, not billions.

In my opinion, politicians shouldn't be allowed to own stocks or trade derivatives. Additionally, if individuals who are not politicians engage in trading these assets, it is essential to thoroughly investigate how they obtained this information.

Hold both Democrats and Republicans accountable.

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Hub's avatar

There's a saying on Wall Street: "Someone always knows." Some entity had to have been the counterparty to these trades and accept the risk. Perhaps word got out and it was a group of people, not a single person. In my opinion, the first step in fixing the problem is transparency. With the system we have in place, it makes identification difficult.

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Rev. π‰πšπœπ€ 𝐑𝐨𝐬𝐑𝐒's avatar

That's true, but, again, there are degrees to this. A smaller corporate owner might know a merger is coming and will give the heads up to a family member and make a few million. That is another thing than a guy, allegedly, next to the POTUS making $950M in 7 minutes.

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Hub's avatar
Apr 12Edited

It could be allegedly anyone.

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mboul's avatar

Who is going to report this to SEC and FINRA?

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Rev. π‰πšπœπ€ 𝐑𝐨𝐬𝐑𝐒's avatar

Thousands of people. I have submitted requests of the entities writing these 0DTEs and we will get answers, unless this thing goes deeper, but I doubt it.

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mboul's avatar

I lost ton of money during Apr 3 and 4 because of those idiotic tariffs and someone is making money screwing me? I need names so I can sue them to get my money back

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PK Shrivastava's avatar

I just submitted a complaint to the SEC using the link in your postβ€”it was a straightforward 7-step process with mostly drop-down selections. Hopefully, others will take the time to do the same. If we’re being taken advantage of, the least we can do is make some noise and demand accountability. Market integrity is worth fighting for.

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Rev. π‰πšπœπ€ 𝐑𝐨𝐬𝐑𝐒's avatar

Thank you, PK!!! Lots of people are doing this.

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