看来巴伦周末做空了石油

[牛大春]

太牛了。

[shepherd17]

太牛了。

上周末大批人重仓做空原油。所以我昨天晚上也毫不犹豫做多指数期货。

[牛大春]

Insider trading concerns as traders bet $580m ahead of Trump’s Iran talks comments: Report

The Financial Times reports that traders bet more than half a billion dollars on oil futures in the 15 minutes before US President Donald Trump announced yesterday that the US had held two days of “very good and productive conversations” with Iran.

Oil futures are contracts that buy and sell oil at a pre-determined price. They are used as a hedge against price volatility because they lock in oil at a certain price, but contracts are also traded on the market.

Analysis of Bloomberg data shows that 6,200 Brent and West Texas Intermediate oil contracts were traded between 6.49 am and 6.50 am New York time (10:49 and 10:50 GMT) – just 15 minutes before Trump’s announcement, the FT said.

Traders likely made a fortune from the trading, although the exact number is unknown.

Trump’s TruthSocial post – shared on Monday morning local time and immediately denied by Tehran – sent the price of oil tumbling, triggering a global sell-off in oil.

The FT said the high volume of trade so close to Trump’s announcement has raised eyebrows in the financial world. It also follows a slew of recent high-profile betting on sites such as Polymarket that have been timed extraordinarily close to major White House decisions – raising questions of insider trading.

“My gut from watching markets for the last 25 years is this is really abnormal,” a portfolio manager told the UK newspaper.

“It’s an unusually large trade for a day with no event risk… Somebody just got a lot richer,” the manager said.