Oil Markets Showed 15 Unusual Trades Before Trump’s 1,341 Truth Social Posts
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Updated · The Conversation · Jun 9
Oil Markets Showed 15 Unusual Trades Before Trump’s 1,341 Truth Social Posts
2 articles · Updated · The Conversation · Jun 9
Summary
A 73-day analysis found 15 distinct episodes of unusual oil-market trading around Donald Trump’s Truth Social posts, with several of the sharpest price moves occurring minutes before he posted.
The pattern suggests some traders may have placed unusually well-timed bets before market-moving comments became public, raising questions about whether they had advance knowledge.
Millions of dollars changed hands in those episodes between Jan. 25 and April 8, a period covering 1,341 posts from Trump’s account.
The findings challenge the usual sequence in which presidential statements move markets after publication, pointing instead to repeated pre-post positioning in oil trading.