This is truly egregious.
On May 13th, someone put $25 million in premium, 10,000x volume, in United Health, $UNH, $300 puts expiring 09/19/2025.
Then news of DOJ investigating for fraud came out.
$UNH dropped, and is down 50% in last month.
This trader is up $80 million.
This is so blatant.
Footlocker, $FL, is up 85% today after news of Dick's, $DKS, acquisition.
Someone knew before hand.
$FL options are very thinly traded, zero volume.
Yesterday, coincidentally, $FL had its MOST options volume over last 60 days, as well as highest net
BREAKING: Congress member Julie Johnson literally sold stock right before Trump's tariff news.
She sold hundreds of positions, right before the market dropped. She sold on March 31, April 1, and continued to sell on April 6th.
She literally SOLD BEFORE liberation day.
Insane.
This is wild.
This trader sold for up to $120 million in 20 days.
On April 22nd, while markets were deep red, he bought $5.7 million worth of $SPXW calls, 11% OTM & expiring May 16th.
This was before news of China & US trade deal.
They took a profit of 800%.
Unusual.
SEC investigating whether Coinbase, $COIN, mistated its user numbers, per NYT
This is interesting.
Representative Josh Gottheimer disclosed purchasing Raytheon stock, $RTX, a weapons stock, on April 23, 2025.
Afterwards, India and Pakistan attacked one another, with $RTX soaring 18% since.
Gottheimer sits on the House Intelligence Committee.
UAE says it will invest $1.4 trillion in the United States over the next 10 years.
Holy.
Unusual Whales was mentioned in the Congressional hearing to ban politicians from trading stock.
Representative Seth Magaziner directly mentioned the Unusual Whales reports, saying, "Over the last 4 years, members of Congress consistently beat the market."
We started
A great economic study would be about how much profit and CEO pay factors into the viability of a business. Has that changed over time because of what's considered a worthwhile stock investment?
We're constantly told lower level workers can't be paid more because then the business wouldn't survive, without ever really considering how other top level workers could be paid less. Maybe that's crazy cause they'd work somewhere else, but not if they were all paid less.
US led economic sanctions on Russia & Yemen aren't even this effective.
BREAKING: This is unusual trading by a politican.
Representative Greg Landsman sold up to $50,000 of United Health, $UNH, on 03/26/2025.
Since, $UNH is down 53%, and it was disclosed that the DOJ was investigating $UNH for possible Medicare fraud.
He sits on the House
Qatar Wealth Fund plans to invest $500 billion in the US over ten years, per Reuters
Buffett's performance since 1965 beat every investing popular strategy, per Bloomberg.
The FAA has resorted to buying parts on eBay, $EBAY, because its equipment is so old, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy has said.
Only 25% of AI initiatives have delivered expected return on investment (ROI), over the past three years, per IBM
"For the first time, women and non-White men hold just over half of the boardroom seats at S&P 500 companies, according to ISS-Corporate," per Bloomberg:
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Barry Sternlicht has said that the US economy will likely weaken even though the stock market has bounced back from President Donald Trump’s major tariff announcement in early April
Coinbase, $COIN, says hackers bribed staff to steal customer data and are demanding $20 million ransom
Walmart, $WMT, says price hikes from tariffs could start later this month
