Someone got tipped off on Donald Trumps 90 day pause on tariffs.

[Baitball Blogger]

We were watching CNBC and the stock market was down at noon, and an hour later it shot up 1200(?) points. Then, fifteen minutes later, he posted on Truth Social.

This is so corrupt. Find those people who got tipped off!

[dalton99a]

1. Clear manipulation.

[homegirl]

47. It was the

Billionaire Boys Club and the stock market leadership, Trump was taken tot he back room and beaten into submission! Next step, the politicians will impeach and remove him!

[azureblue]

73. Trump used the office of the presidency

to manipulate the stock market. Isn't that kind of illegal?

[unblock]

2. A responsible president would make such an announcement after the market closed.

But this is the president we have, sadly

[pat_k]

21. No, he only puts tariffs on after the market closes.

[mobeau69]

23. Not everyone can trade after hours.

[Celerity]

72. just use an ECN

Electronic Communication Network

https://lightspeed.com/active-trading-blog/what-is-an-electronic-communication-network-ecn

snip

An ECN is a computerized trading system that matches buy and sell orders for securities. ECNs allow traders to trade directly with each other, without the need for a middleman such as a broker or market maker. ECNs operate in a decentralized manner, meaning that there is no central exchange or trading floor.

Key features of ECNs include anonymity, transparency, and automatic order matching. Traders can enter orders into the ECN, which are matched with orders from other participants based on price and quantity. Once a trade is executed, the ECN automatically updates the order book and reports the trade to the relevant regulatory authorities.


Participants in the ECN:

ECNs have a wide range of participants, including retail investors, institutional investors, brokers, and market makers. Retail investors use ECNs to access a wider range of securities and to trade at lower costs than traditional brokers. Institutional investors use ECNs for their speed and efficiency, as well as their ability to execute large trades.

Brokers and market makers also use ECNs to execute trades on behalf of their clients. Market makers provide liquidity to the ECN by posting buy and sell orders for securities. In return, they receive a small fee for each trade they execute.

snip

[Girard442]

3. At this point, the stock market is totally corrupt.

Only knaves and fools in it now.

[Prof. Toru Tanaka]

50. Which is why I am glad my retirement account

has 0% in stocks. Fucking bunch of crooks playing Russian roulette with people’s retirement funds.

[surfered]

4. Oh I'm sure Pam Bondi will get right on it.

[durablend]

32. And have OP disappeared for suggesting it

[Bengus81]

44. Anyone else in this position and the SEC would launch and investigation

for out and out stock manipulation and insider trading. Proving once again it's over,Democracy died the day that POS took office.

[mdbl]

75. Thanks to the SCROTUS

The highest crooked court in the land.

[muriel_volestrangler]

5. Are you sure on that timing?

The Orange Rapist's pseudo-tweet is timestamped at 1:18pm; the chart for the S&P 500 I see shows the rise starting between 1:15 (5040.86) and 1:20 (5143.92).

on edit: more precisely, 1:18: 5011.62, 1:19: 5142.75.

[Baitball Blogger]

6. I was watching CNBC. And the stock hike came first. They looked around social media and a considerable

amount of minutes later came up the truth social quote. That's what I observed.

[muriel_volestrangler]

8. That's different. CNBC hadn't been monitoring Trump's blurtings, clearly.

But the timings I can find are as above.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

14. The initial jump was due to the robust Treasury 10 year note auction. The big jump was after the social post. . nt

[justsomeguy01]

37. some ticker feeds are on a 15 minute delay.

[Bengus81]

46. LOL...they didn't buy today,they bought yesterday.

[muriel_volestrangler]

58. I was looking at a graph of the day, not a ticker feed

https://www.marketwatch.com/investing/index/spx

[Bengus81]

45. Doesn't matter,his "buds" were told to buy big time yesterday at bargain prices

Doesn't matter when he announced today,they just knew he was going to announce. Look at Tesla,up almost $50 over this blatant manipulation.

[in2herbs]

7. Even knowing its corrupt hard working Americans still invest when there are other alternatives. nt

[MayReasonRule]

9. Pumpjack Economics

[BComplex]

10. Martha Stewart should be on EVERY NEWS CHANNEL with this information. She went to jail for this

very same thing. Trump is a fucking criminal, and the republicans DON'T CARE!!!! They're profiting off of it.

[Mme. Defarge]

36. She was made an example of, in place of

far worse offenders.

[markodochartaigh]

52. Not to be dismissive of your point, but,

these are very complicated situations in which prosecutors and judges must take into account many subtle and complicated details far too obscure and convoluted for persons uneducated in the finer complexities of the law. Oh, and she is a Democrat.

[GoodRaisin]

11. That 1200 points was the criminal president's buy.

Him and his cronies.

Then they come out with their baloney about 75 phantom countries.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

13. No. . . . nt

[Bernardo de La Paz]

12. 1) No. That's not what happened. 2) The Dow is not the market

What happened was that there was a good Treasury 10 year Note auction. That was the initial bump.

[SleeplessinSoCal]

15. Cons are either corrupted or cowardly.

It's a sad picture of what we've become.

[kimbutgar]

16. I wrote that he would do this a couple of days ago

Why am I not shocked?



https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220214585

[littlemissmartypants]

40. Anyone..

That is, hasn't been paying attention.

❤️

[maspaha]

17. Will Bondi prosecute?

Law and Order!

[mobeau69]

22. The SEC would investigate if they haven't been corrupted yet.

[Diraven]

51. Musk and DOGE is trying to shut them down

https://www.barrons.com/articles/doge-sec-cuts-1cbe7443

[mobeau69]

65. Of course.

[Bev54]

18. I think more than one person got a tip off.

The markets should have opened way down again today, especially with world sell off of US bonds but it didn’t which says to me somebodies were buying big knowing this was coming.

[Hornedfrog2000]

19. I just dropped my contribution

To 0% from my checks. I am seriously considering other avenues to save for retirement. I cant have some idiot having so much control over my finances.

[NoRethugFriends]

34. Very likely your plan has a safe option

[Hornedfrog2000]

56. I think i can do better on my own.

Tired of propping up rich people

[NoRethugFriends]

61. And you lose the tax advantage you know, right?

[Hornedfrog2000]

63. Yes, very well aware.

I need things more liquid at this point. He is making people lose faith in the market. I doubt i am the only one who is pulling out their money. I will leave what i have in, but I also make $200k a year and why would i invest into a market that is clearly rigged?

[stollen]

62. Do you have a TSP?

The politicians do. They either put the pressure on Trump re: tariffs or prepared themselves, with insider knowledge, to benefit.

I stayed in during the W market tank and stayed in during Trump's CIVID debacle. Despite losing $111,000 in a month, I felt comfortable hanging in with one fund but did cash out at a near high with the other, fearful Trump would take it all.

[WSHazel]

20. Blatant market manipulation

A week ago he announces catastrophically damaging tariffs, and the market goes into a tailspin. Then, with no new information, and Trump reiterating that he would keep the tariffs on, suddenly reverses course, sending the market shooting up.

This is not the first time he has done a bad news/good news about face. It looks sketchy and it will chase off investors if they think the market is rigged. This isn’t one of those things where they need to prove anything. It just looks sketchy, and that is all it takes.

[Tanuki]

24. He posted it on social media

Link to tweet

[splano]

25. It leaked yesterday

It leaked yesterday on X but was pretty much dismissed as fake news.

The post made its way through several investing groups I’m a member of and it wasn’t until trumps message this morning about “buying” and seeing that the market was moving slightly up amongst the turmoil that I had a strong feeling it was true.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

39. Nope. I bet you can't find and post a credible tweet (i.e. not thin air speculation or direct statements fr principals)

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This tweet

Link to tweet

is not the tweet you are talking about:

1) It was today, not yesterday
2) It was tRump, publicly. That's not a leak. That was not somebody leaking about hidden info.

[birdographer]

26. I read somewhere that that "announcement"

was totally made up by someone, has no basis in reality.

[Maru Kitteh]

27. Yeah, like "his" justice department is going to worry their beautiful minds about that! nt

[twodogsbarking]

28. Trump's just fuckin' with everybody. Threatens to hit you ten times with a belt and then expects you to like only

getting hit twice. China has never bowed to him so he has to make an example of them. Typical MF Trump.

[Doodley]

29. If Biden had tweeted 10% tariffs on 90 nations and 104% on China, the markets would have collapsed and the media would

be calling for him to resign. But with Trump, this is seen as great news.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

41. 10 % blanket tariffs are estimated to cause something like 0.2 or 0.3 hit on GDP. That's not considering China. . . nt

[Arazi]

30. Yup, great thread on Bluesky with allllll the evidence

Alright, I think people knew of the tariff pause and traded it beforehand.

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 TODAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Those calls are up 2100% in one hour.

— Unusual Whales (@unusualwhales.bsky.social) 2025-04-09T18:20:58.509Z

[SayItLoud]

31. Find those people? Then what?

There are no enforcement methods or devices under this DICKtator's rule.

[Renew Deal]

33. The entire "it's a great time to buy. DJT" bit is blatantly corrupt.

[brush]

35. Come on, people. All this means is trump blinked because his tariff moves were...

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creating not just a national economic crisis but an international one as China, Europe and the rest of the world signaled they will institute retaliatory tariffs. trump blinked and had to put a 90-day pause on the still tariffs.

That's why the market shot up, but a coming recession is already baked in, maybe even a depression.

Tariffs wars don't work. trump is an idiot for thinking other countries won't retaliate.

[Bengus81]

49. Doesn't mean committing a crime in the process should not be looked at.

Yeah...the tariffs are off,then ON,then OFF. Hot button crap that moves the markets. He manipulated them and no doubt committed insider trading. That POS is a career criminal.

[brush]

54. Agreed he's a career criminal. He maybe getting a cut from some close to him...

who are selling short on his manipulations and volatility of the markets. I think the fool just enjoys creating chaos and thinking other countries have to come kiss his ring and ask for personal favors for their economies.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

64. I strongly suspect that Pissolini does nothing

that he doesn't have good reason to expect will result in him gaining power and/or money. Or both. Selling pardons, kickbacks of all sorts...I don't know enough to know all the ways he's gifting, but I know that if there's one thing he's good at, it's gifting.

[Emile]

38. Well we do have a convicted felon running the country.

[FakeNoose]

43. And thanks to SCOTUS he has "presidential immunity"

[Deuxcents]

42. Thom Hartmann noticed MTG was a big spender, too.

[Warpy]

48. those old boys always get tipped off

They might get suckered this time along with the rest of us, they might not.

Nobody knows what is going to happen long term as long as That Fat Grifter is swinging his bludgeon around and pulling unrealistic numbers out of his bum.

[Turbineguy]

53. It feels like Trump was sidelined before he destroyed everything.

[D_Master81]

55. Jail time

Martha Stewart went to jail for the same thing. But that was back when we were a nation of laws

[doc03]

57. I have come to the conclusion the tariff bs is just to manipulte the markets. The

billionaires are making money on every rise or dip.

[patphil]

59. It happened faster than I thought it would.

I thought he would let the market go down a few thousand points more before announcing a "pause".
Maybe he wanted to preempt any Congressional action to take away his tariff power so he can do it again in a few months.
It's all blatant manipulation and insider trading. The rich get richer, and everyone else gets screwed.
If he had done nothing, the results would have been catastrophic. The securities market was already under attack, and if Trump waited another week, it would have been brutal.
He's getting good advice from people who know how to manipulate markets, and he's listening to it.
I didn't think he would.

The takeaway here is that the whole tariff thing was just a smoke screen for market manipulation.
As usual, it's all about the money.
Silly me, I thought he actually believed the hype he was putting our about Making America Great Again.
All he really wanted was to make the rich richer, including himself.

[poozwah]

60. transition

from manican to panican. guess he will now have to play golf with the opposite, and much fairer, sex.

[Dave Id]

66. Someone got 'lucky'

Surly it was a coincidence, /s

[Marcuse]

67. They have gone back to the robber baron ethics of the 19th century.

https://dept.math.lsa.umich.edu/~bennet/graft.html

[Frasier Balzov]

80. Trump seen his opportunities all right!

[bucolic_frolic]

68. Tell me about it.

I didn't watch the market today. Went food shopping. Saw lots of price increases, but also some declines and bagged some real bargains. Also saw a woman digging in a public trash barrel. She carried out a large paper bag. She had a car, but I do wonder if she was rummaging for food. Or perhaps aluminum cans.

Anyway .... Micron shot up 12 points, Uber 3 and change, right on down the line. Missed them all. This is much like the day Musk went public about acquiring Twitter. I was short and lost more than a bit. So my guess is Musk.

[kentuck]

69. They could start with the execs of the tech companies...

At what price did they buy back their stock?

That would be just like a "taxcut".

[Buttoneer]

70. I'm sure the SEC will conduct an investigation...

[Baitball Blogger]

74. Are they still around?

[DENVERPOPS]

84. Trump and his CABAL

neutered the SEC in the first administration, along with all other regulatory agencies with initials...

[Eddie Haskell 60]

71. They need to start with Trump's friends and family

No doubt they got a heads-up! All their stock holdings should be reviewed.

[Blue Full Moon]

76. Very good video on trade and tariffs in committee.

?si=1w0Z3o11jurdpGwJ

I like his videos. He left the country to get his wife a green card and he is in Korea because they won't let him come back to the USA.

[Baitball Blogger]

78. That's a great video!

It does make me sick the way the Republicans do everything to protect each other from accountability.

[evilhime]

77. market manipulation

I want to know how many and which proxies bought for chump when it was bottomed out only to be able to sell now as it goes up again. AT the very least it smacks of insider trading, and likely manipulation as well.

[Baitball Blogger]

79. What an easy way to reward a donor.

Trump wouldn't be able to resist.

[iemanja]

89. A donor isn't the entire market

That involves thousands of fund managers. Institutional investors, not individuals, do most of the trading on Wall Street.

[Jit423]

81. This is only the fourth time they, the Trump cabal, have cashed in the tariff-stock market.

Why most people don't see or understand what they are doing is beyond me. The stock market money is leaving the country and we don't even know it. Anyone with a 401K should be worried and ready to cash in and make other plans for their investment.

[ecstatic]

82. they don't even try to hide it. I mean, why make it so obvious?

Because they're so confident that nothing will happen to them. I'm so sick of this shit!

[DENVERPOPS]

83. Trump and Repubs

have rendered the SEC neutered............

[AdamGG]

85. Keep good records of this

because no federal entity is going to prosecute this for at least 4 years. And, there will be so much more crazy shit between now and then that it will probably not be at the top of their list.

[Baitball Blogger]

86. It looks like both Schiff and Warren are going to do an investigation.

[Marcuse]

87. They won't get the votes for subpoenas.

Hear no evil, see no evil………………..EVIL

[iemanja]

88. Someone may have

But not the entire market. That’s nonsensical. It would involve tipping off all the major mutual funds and retirement funds. Does anyone actually think Trump world tip off thousands of fund managers?

This supposed timing story also ignores the impact of the t-bill sales.

People love conspiracy theories. It leaves me sad about the state of our country.

[AdamGG]

90. It would be shocking if Trump and people around him

didn't benefit from this. It's the biggest insider tip of all time and they're the least ethical people in the country.

They're also very unprofessional and sloppy and the tip could have spread like wildfire. Trump was posting, "now is the time to buy" on social media beforehand because he is congenitally incapable of being ethical.

[iemanja]

92. That's a separate point

I agree that it is likely they did benefit, but that’s insider trading. The OP’s claim is that the entire bounce back yesterday was rigged. Naturally no one can explain how that could even happen

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

91. We need congressional hearings &anyone who used inside information should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law

[Happy Hoosier]

93. Someone?

Ah man, I think they have a whole call list to hit when he does this shit. I mean, why not? He can do whatever he wants.... no consequences.

[Scalded Nun]

94. He'll rig anything, enrich anyone. No consequences for anyone. Who would investigate or prosecute?