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Or another.

On 04/07, politician Marjorie Taylor Greene said that people panicking over tariffs are "losers and failures."

On 04/08 she disclosed over a dozen stock purchases, purchasing hundred of thousands of numerous stocks.

She bought when the market was deeply red.

Then

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Take another example.

So at a PRIVATE JPMorgan, $JPM conference with US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Bessent talked about US and China, calling situation "unsustainable."

The market rallied huge on the comments.

But did someone at the conference know?

Before the comments

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Take another example.

Before Trump announced a pause on 04/09, there was HUGE $QQQ volume on a 460C expiring 04/17.

They were bought for $0.85 and ran to as high as $31 per contract!!!

This was before any news.

Later in the day, it rallied 2000% in ten minutes.

The trader

On April 9th, you can see before Trump posted "buy" on Truth Social, traders opened $QQQ $TQQQ and $SPY calls

RIGHT BEFORE THE NEWS, someone opened $SPY 509 calls, expiring that day!

Those calls were up 2100% in one hour.

You can see all volume was literally opened that day.