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$70M in 60 Seconds: How Insider Info Helped Someone 28x Their Money

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Post by XajniN »

NorwegianDude wrote: post #278
irrational wrote: post #31

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Except the military.

If the military says something not in line with Trump they'll quickly be removed. Just look at what happend in Greenland. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/creq99l218do

There is a chain of command in the military, you have to follow orders even if you disagree with them (unless they are unconstitutional). You may express your disagreement to your superiors, but you may not publicly distance yourself. She would be courtmartialed for this in most militaries, and probably in the US as well in a more serious situation.

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Post by permalac »

lm28469 wrote: post #402
notdarkyet wrote: post #326

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Hacker news is made of people usually smart people, and smart people tend to favor one side of the political spectrum more than the other

Is kind funny when you see who is lost. I though even the most trumper had seen the light, but is clear their delusion is strong.

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Post by Frost1x »

hattmall wrote: post #383
sebasv_ wrote: post #8

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What would determine whether the SEC will investigate for insider trading? I would expect them to be shielded from executive pressure.

Questionable if there is anything to investigate, definitionally you can't inside trade an index fund.

If you’re POTUS or closely related to POTUS with access to sweeping information about erratic tariff policies that actual do shift entire markets index funds index against, why couldn’t you?

In general I think you’re correct because the “inside” information is typically not as broad or powerful. But I don’t think we live in general times. If POTUS gave me personally a heads up about such adjustments on tariffs, after watching indexes tumble after announcing them, and knowing the opposite direction, I would dump almost everything I had access to in such stocks largely effected by reevaluation from tariffs.

Knowing major policy shifts before they happen from one of the powerful governments in the world is useful information, especially when the policies are being set by a handful of people who can limit access to knowledge escaping even more than regularly so markets don’t adjust from larger sets of insider information.

Now is it really considered “insider” trading in this case? Probably not, and this administration can get away with anything it seems.

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Post by klipt »

tmcb wrote: post #399
klipt wrote: post #395

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Men are still the vast majority of workplace fatalities: https://injuryfacts.nsc.org/work/industry-incidence-rates/wo... But the left will never prioritize men. The left believes that any metric where women are worse off needs urgent attention, and any intervention must prioritize women. But any metric where men are worse off can either be ignored, or fixed with an intervention that is either gender neutral, or prefe…

Yes, that sounds like the perfect conversation starter. If that doesn't work, which I believe is highly unlikely, maybe try incorporating elements of speech as those found in this right-wing publication, the World Socialist Web Site: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/02/27/hefl-f27.html

Your link just proves my point: 0 mention anywhere that the majority of work fatalities are men.

If the majority of work fatalities were women, we'd be screaming from the rooftops that "workplaces are unsafe for women"

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Post by ZeroTalent »

DeathArrow wrote: post #131

If I am not mistaken, Trump said earlier that it's a great time to buy. Isn't there a chance that someone acted on that, seeing it as a hint?

Not with 0DTE options at this scale at multiple strikes. highly improbable. This wasn't the only trade. It was a sweep of hidden trades across different strikes on SPY and QQQ. Occam's Razor says this is insider trading. This has never happened before to this degree. The cool thing is that all of the historical data is transparent and cannot be removed from the ledger, and we can ask and know who made the trades it will just take a few weeks.

And looking at the options flow, it was billions across all the unusual 0DTE trades.

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Post by otterley »

DoctorOW wrote: post #378
otterley wrote: post #369

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Can you provide a single example of someone getting thrown into a maximum-security prison and subjected to forced labor solely for criticizing the Trump administration?

https://www.npr.org/2025/04/11/nx-s1-5361208/mahmoud-khalil-... > "If Mahmoud can be targeted in this way, simply for speaking out for Palestinians and exercising his constitutionally protected right to free speech, this can happen to anyone over any issue the Trump administration dislikes," said Marc Van Der Hout, one of Khalil's attorneys. He's currently in Louisiana prison it says which means yes, he's subject to…

He’s not been charged with a crime. He’s not being removed from the country for criticizing Donald Trump. He’s in detention pending removal, which is a civil proceeding, not a criminal one. And he’s certainly not doing any labor there. Not every detention facility in Louisiana is a federal prison for criminals.

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Post by multjoy »

Ray20 wrote: post #279
multjoy wrote: post #158

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They’re literally fighting for their lives. Nobody wants elections in wartime, not least because polling stations become targets. You need to lay off the MAGA talking points.

>Nobody wants elections in wartime THE GOVERNMENT doesn't want elections in wartime. Most people want. >not least because polling stations become targets. I think this is pure gaslighting. If we are talking about Ukraine, Putin is one of the main supporters of holding elections there. And almost certainly not because he wants to bomb some polling stations, but because he is confident that people will vote for a candi…

>Putin is one of the main supporters of holding elections there

Because he will interfere, like he has across Europe. He is a tyrant and has only his own interests at heart.

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Post by multjoy »

thatcat wrote: post #264
multjoy wrote: post #158

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They’re literally fighting for their lives. Nobody wants elections in wartime, not least because polling stations become targets. You need to lay off the MAGA talking points.

The conscripted might disagree and desire a leader who will pursue a peaceful solution, this conclusion is supported by the high number of deserters.

Peaceful solution to an invasion? How does that work, exactly?
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