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In financial markets, the improper connection between power and capital has given rise to many forms of manipulation. Taking the beginning of 2025 as an example, Trump issued Meme Coin and proposed the concept of "crypto strategic reserve", which caused significant disturbances to the market. Recently, the uncertainty of its tariff policy has also affected the trend of US stocks.

On a certain trading day, Trump posted on social media about suspending tariffs for 90 days and reducing the equivalent tariff to 10%, and the three major U.S. stock indexes rebounded sharply:

The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 7.87% on the day, rising more than 2,900 points, its biggest one-day gain since March 25, 2020.

The S&P 500 rose as much as 9.52%, the most since October 29, 2008.

The Nasdaq Composite surged 12.16%, its second-biggest one-day gain in history.

The market capitalization of the "Big Seven Tech Companies" has increased significantly in a short period of time, to approximately US$1.85 trillion (equivalent to approximately RMB 13.4 trillion). After the U.S. stock market opened, Trump wrote that "now is a great time to buy", and then the SPY 509 call option rose by 2100% within an hour. Net premium data showed that a large number of investors followed up by buying call options, and all signs indicate the possibility of knowing major policy changes in advance. Earlier, CNBC reported that Trump was considering suspending tariffs for 90 days, which was denied by the White House press secretary. However, the policy was implemented a few days later, which further raised market questions about information disclosure and policy-making process.

Trump’s similar behavior in financial markets is not an isolated incident:

On March 2, 2025, he announced the establishment of a "strategic reserve of cryptocurrencies", which led to a sharp rise in the prices of cryptocurrencies such as XRP, SOL, and ADA. He then added that Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) would also serve as the core of the reserve, and the price of Ethereum rose accordingly. Some people believe that there may be a conflict of interest behind this series of measures. Trump's son Eric Trump once expressed his support for relevant policies on social media, and some people in the crypto industry questioned whether the Trump family used their information advantage to conduct insider trading.

As early as January when Trump Meme Coin was issued, the data analysis platform Bubblemaps pointed out that a certain address received funds 4 hours before the release of the TRUMP token, and invested US$1 million to purchase 5.9 million TRUMP within the first minute after the release. It then made tens of millions of dollars in profit by transferring it. The Trump family was accused of publicly cashing out hundreds of millions of dollars.

Back in 2019, Vanity Fair reported that during Trump's remarks on China-U.S. tariffs, the market was suspected of profiting from insider information. For example, in the last 30 minutes of the trading session on June 28, there was a large-scale long position in S&P futures contracts. Subsequently, Trump announced the resumption of negotiations between China and the United States, and U.S. stocks rose sharply. The relevant funds made a profit of nearly $1.8 billion in a week.

In addition, the financial market trading behavior of other White House officials has also attracted attention. Former Democratic Speaker Pelosi is known as the "Capitol Hill Stock God" because of her family's outstanding investment performance:

In January 2021, before the Biden administration announced its electric vehicle subsidy policy, Pelosi's husband Paul bought millions of dollars worth of Tesla stock.

In March of the same year, before Microsoft's stock price rose after it received an order from the Department of Defense, Paul bought Microsoft stock at a low price.

Paul profited by going long on Google stock during the antitrust investigation in July.

Paul purchased Nvidia shares before the chip manufacturing subsidy bill was voted on in July 2022.

According to OpenSecrets statistics, the Pelosi couple's return on investment reached 56.15% in 2021, and their investment portfolio return rate was 70.9% in 2024, which was much higher than the 25% increase in the S&P 500 index during the same period, and also exceeded the performance of well-known investors such as Buffett.

From the U.S. stock market to the cryptocurrency sector, these financial market manipulation behaviors have seriously damaged the fairness of the market and had a negative impact on the interests of ordinary investors, highlighting the urgency of improving market supervision mechanisms and ensuring information transparency and fair trading.

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