{"id":151347,"date":"2026-03-25T12:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T10:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/?post_type=news&#038;p=151347"},"modified":"2026-03-24T13:44:26","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T11:44:26","slug":"ugody-na-600-mln-trejdery-zbagatylysya-pered-postom-trampa-pro-iran","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/news\/novosti\/ugody-na-600-mln-trejdery-zbagatylysya-pered-postom-trampa-pro-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"$600 million in trades: traders profit ahead of Trump\u2019s post on Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"112\" data-end=\"342\">Traders offloaded nearly $580 million worth of oil futures just 15 minutes before U.S. President Donald Trump posted about \u201cproductive talks\u201d with Iran\u2014ahead of the price drop triggered by the message, the Financial Times reports.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"344\" data-end=\"554\">Approximately 6,200 Brent and WTI contracts were sold around 6:50 a.m. on March 23. At 7:04 a.m., Trump posted on social media about \u201cproductive talks\u201d with Iran, which led to a decline in these futures prices.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"556\" data-end=\"652\">As a result, someone managed to sell oil assets at high prices just minutes before a sharp drop.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"654\" data-end=\"881\">The identities behind these trades remain unknown. One exchange analyst noted that while it is difficult to establish a causal link, it raises the question of who was aggressively selling futures 15 minutes before Trump\u2019s post.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"883\" data-end=\"982\">The White House rejected any allegations of insider trading, calling such speculation \u201cgroundless.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"984\" data-end=\"1127\">Suspicious activity was not limited to the oil market. A similar surge in trading was recorded in futures tied to the U.S. stock index S&#038;P 500.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1129\" data-end=\"1315\">According to Bloomberg, between 6:49 and 6:50 a.m. in New York on March 23, a total of 4,497 contracts worth about $1.46 billion changed hands\u2014making it the largest trade of the morning.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1317\" data-end=\"1656\">Oil futures remain highly volatile, with markets reacting nervously to developments related to the war in the Middle East, which has effectively led to the closure of the Strait of Hormuz. However, the synchronized and unusually large trades that anticipated statements by the U.S. president may prompt investigations by market regulators.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":151348,"menu_order":0,"template":"","newscat":[9],"newstag":[],"issues":[],"class_list":["post-151347","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","newscat-novosti"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/151347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"newscat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newscat?post=151347"},{"taxonomy":"newstag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newstag?post=151347"},{"taxonomy":"issues","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issues?post=151347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}