O/T:- Trump Presidency 2.0 [hic sunt dracones]

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Ok but her trades don't even *seem* to be timed perfectly. On the Pelosi tracker it's easy to find big losses she made on 6 and 7 figure trades.

Hedge funds generally don't make big % profits because they hedge (they will have short and long positions), but the S & P is up 164% since 2014 according to the tracker. Pelosi is up 550% in that time. That means she 5x'd her money in 11 years, great - better than me for sure, but in a massive bull market certainly not exceptional.

Somebody on here once posted they made 400% in a few years on a China ETF. Prolific Reddit traders have done much better than Pelosi over the same period of time. If she's accomplished that by trading on privileged information she's doing an absolutely terrible job.

To use a footballing analogy, Pelosi made some big bets on top 4 teams to win handsomely, and she won more than she lost. What happened yesterday was like betting on Wealdstone to beat Man City with the score 5-0 to City.

I agree, it's entirely possible to make massive gains by picking winners, but Pelosi has made several high-profile trades directly before news broke that pushed certain stocks higher. Sure, it could just be a coincidence, or it could be that she's using privileged information to time the market. I know which seems more likely.

On this subject, there was another clear example of insider trading a month or so ago. Trump made a bizarre tweet about forming a "strategic crypto reserve" containing several high-profile digital assets and then walked it all back a week or so later in a second tweet. Someone opened a massive multi-million-dollar leveraged long literally minutes before the first tweet and then a similarly large short trade minutes before the second tweet. It's easy when you know how!