unusual_whales

Over the last few weeks it has become apparent that Wallstreet and US politicians were getting tariff news before the rest of the market.

FOX news confirmed this today.

These people are making millions off the chaos.

Here's a breakdown of some of the unusual trades: 

On April 9th, you can see before Trump posted "buy" on Truth Social, traders opened $QQQ $TQQQ and $SPY calls

RIGHT BEFORE THE NEWS, someone opened $SPY 509 calls, expiring that day!

Those calls were up 2100% in one hour.

You can see all volume was literally opened that day. You can see all volume was new opening volume (not only on the Zero days, but also on the weekly $QQQ and $TQQQ calls).

Take another example.

Before Trump announced a pause on 04/09, there was HUGE $QQQ volume on a 460C expiring 04/17.

They were bought for $0.85 and ran to as high as $31 per contract!!!

This was before any news.

Later in the day, it rallied 2000% in ten minutes.

The trader made millions.

Why was this unusual? For a few reasons:

- Firstly new opening volume on chain, minutes after market open
- IVR of +80 on $QQQ, with iv percentile of medium. So vol wasn’t anticipating a move this big
- all execution happened at once, at ask
- this was wildly out of the money at the time
- market was bearish, across the board

Take another example.

So at a PRIVATE JPMorgan, $JPM conference with US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Bessent talked about US and China, calling situation "unsustainable."

The market rallied huge on the comments.

But did someone at the conference know?

Before the comments that were leaked to Bloomberg, a huge $SPXW 5800C expiring 5/16/2025 was placed unusually. It was 11% out of the money. Truly unusual.

The trader then made $2 million in 30 minutes after the comments.

Or another.

On 04/07, politician Marjorie Taylor Greene said that people panicking over tariffs are "losers and failures."

On 04/08 she disclosed over a dozen stock purchases, purchasing hundred of thousands of numerous stocks.

She bought when the market was deeply red.

Then the tariff paused was announced and her positions made millions.

Unusual Whales was made to catch these moves.

I'll keep finding the directions that people make and try to fight for transparency.

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