On April 9, 2025, someone risked $2.5 million on SPY call options—and walked away with $70+ million in under an hour. The trade was placed at 1:01 pm. At 1:30 pm, Trump announced tariff pauses. The market exploded upward. These options that cost 85 cents were suddenly worth more than $25.
Scott Galloway talked on his podcast this week about unusual trade activity around Apple stock, just an absurd amount of trades that he noticed within a ten-minute window last week, and you can’t tell me Trump and his golf buddies didn’t send out a message on a Signal group chat that now was the time to buy and sell.