Valuetainment - March 26, 2026


“Oil Bets Worth $580M” - MASSIVE Trades Hit BIG Minutes Before Trump's Iran Announcement

Hosted by
Patrick Bet-David
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Rosengren Kaplan Chair Richard Clarita Trump
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5 minutes

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191.03

Word count

1,127

Sentence count

89

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1

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3

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$580M oil bet just before Trump's announcement. Within seconds before Trump s ceasefire post, traders placed extraordinary large oil future bets, roughly 5,100 contracts on Brent WTI crude oil, worth well over $500 million. Some reports cite 6,200 contracts at 580 in that minute, immediately after Trump announced that.

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00:00:00.000 $580 million oil bet just before Trump's announcement.
00:00:04.520 Within seconds before Trump's ceasefire post,
00:00:08.100 traders placed extraordinary large oil future bets,
00:00:11.380 roughly 5,100 contracts on Brent WTI crude oil.
00:00:15.560 13 million barrels were traded between 1049 to 1050 GMT,
00:00:20.160 worth well over $500 million.
00:00:22.220 Some reports cite 6,200 contracts at 580.
00:00:25.600 In that minute, immediately after Trump announced that 1105 GMT,
00:00:29.000 which is like 15 minutes later, 13,000 plus contracts, 13 million barrels, exchange hands in one minute.
00:00:35.860 Oil prices plunged on the news. Brent crude oil fell 15 percent from 112 to 99 and WTI fell from 99 to 86.
00:00:45.680 By comparison, before the war, Brent traded at 300,000 contracts a day.
00:00:50.740 Recently, daily volume have jumped to a thousand contracts a day.
00:00:56.320 Tom, thoughts on this story?
00:00:57.720 I hate it. I absolutely hate this. Because the average American, the average investor has no access to this. Who knew what the president was going to say? A circle of people in Washington, D.C., they know what the president's going to say. And these contracts are going out and basically after hour tradings that some people don't even have access to. And they put this out here. You know, this is why we need the insider trading rules that they won't pass.
00:01:21.740 You know, I look at this and I come to this. I've said it before. It's like we don't need term limits. We need jail.
00:01:27.960 It's like it's like if you're there's the old joke, if a senator is elected, what should he get?
00:01:34.800 And then the answer is 24 to 36. Right. If you were elected, this this this disgusts me, Pat.
00:01:42.860 Somebody made a bundle of money knowing what the president was going to say.
00:01:47.760 and they went out and jumped on the contracts,
00:01:50.200 a person or a group of people, this is horrible.
00:01:53.260 I couldn't agree more with you. 0.99
00:01:54.440 It is disgusting. 0.68
00:01:55.660 And, you know, the increase in the amount of contracts 0.84
00:01:58.020 in a situation where it's volatile, okay,
00:02:00.280 but the timing of this certainly stinks.
00:02:02.700 And I don't think it's somebody.
00:02:03.700 It's the timing.
00:02:04.240 Yeah, I think it's a lot of people, Tom, that made money on it.
00:02:07.940 But this is just, it's not fair.
00:02:09.500 It's not fair to folks like us who want to try and make investments
00:02:12.100 based upon the information that's available.
00:02:14.400 And this is clearly cheating.
00:02:16.420 Yeah, I mean, even 9-11, the same thing happened.
00:02:19.380 COVID, the same thing happened.
00:02:21.480 Constantly when government contracts are getting given out from Google or Amazon,
00:02:25.040 they're front-running that stuff too.
00:02:26.840 So, I mean, there's just layers and layers and layers of unfair advantage
00:02:29.440 for the bigger investors or people in Congress.
00:02:32.740 They do the payment for order flow thing where they could see a big line of retail investors
00:02:37.260 come in trying to invest in something, and then they could cut the line
00:02:39.880 and go in front of them before that comes in. 0.86
00:02:41.720 So, yeah, there's a whole lot of nasty stuff with the way that stocks are investing as a structure against the average person.
00:02:48.540 Let's remember, it kind of got swept under the rug, but you had three Fed members resign.
00:02:53.580 The bonds.
00:02:54.340 Exactly.
00:02:55.000 You had Rosengren, Kaplan, and it may have been clouded.
00:03:00.720 I don't want to speak incorrectly, but I know Rosengren and Kaplan both resigned because there was questionable trading that they had.
00:03:11.940 Which is crazy.
00:03:12.600 Yeah, and these are Fed members at the time.
00:03:14.400 Yeah, they were the ones deploying those bonds.
00:03:15.820 Yeah, yeah, Boston Fed President Rosengren and Dallas Fed President Kaplan,
00:03:19.640 who now works at an investment bank.
00:03:24.380 Yeah, so it was—
00:03:25.560 Rosengren admitted it.
00:03:26.640 Vice Chair Richard Clarita.
00:03:28.580 That's what it was.
00:03:29.000 It was Clarita, so I was right.
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