Posted on 07/18/2024 7:17:37 PM PDT by grundle
After an assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump, which sent shockwaves through the U.S. political landscape, Trump Media (NASDAQ: DJT) shares surged more than 60% in the early trading hour on Monday before retracing by 20% to the valuation of $36.89 at the latest close on July 16.
However, a fact bound to raise a few questions is that short positions against Truth Social stock doubled between July 1 and July 12, going from 7 to 15 million shares, in what was a record of shares shorted for DJT stock since its trading debut.
This surge indicates that individuals or large organizations anticipated a significant drop in the stock’s value by July 15, a scenario that would likely have materialized had President Trump died in Pennsylvania.
The potential need to cover the losses from short positions leading up to July 12 could have provided an additional boost in the price of DJT stock.
A pattern raises concerns that some individuals may have had foreknowledge of a plot against former President Trump’s life and sought to profit from the expected turmoil.
Short interest in DJT stock
Looking at the current level of DJT stock short-interest, it has subsided substantially. It fell to 11.27%, with 5,219,586 shares being shorted at an average coverage of less than one day.
This means that the stock is no longer experiencing high short interest, as it did last week. Previous occurrences of short interest before major events
A similar occurrence was observed on September 11, 2001, when substantial bets were placed against the stocks of major airlines, American Airlines (NASDAQ: AAL) and United Airlines (NASDAQ: UAL), the day before the attacks.
Subsequent investigations revealed that a single entity and an insider newsletter had tipped off investors, leading them to place fortuitous bets against the top two U.S. airlines, which suffered significant losses following the hijackings.
Eric Trump spoke highly of that SS group on the stage which I assume includes the 5 foot woman way too short to protect Trump.
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This action is very telling! Not a random action, but planned! The evil ones figured why not get greedy on the ultimate insider information!
Be nice to go to ‘Vegas and get the same deal...
...make a bet on the Roulette wheel and cancel the bet if you lose.
Follow the money!!
Something was going on, they knew
Can’t they find out who shorted the stock?.
A mistake? Really?
George Soros comes to mind.
Above is a link that John Robinson found and posted on another thread.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/4252265/posts?page=47#47
Since April 18 there have been maybe 30 trades / shorts(?) on DJT Media. (I’m not sure exactly how to read that chart, but I’m presuming those are “shorts”. Most are in the tens of thousands. Two trades of about 1.7 million. One trade the day before the assassination attempt of 12 million. (1,700,000 vs 12,000,000).
I would think if it was a mistake they would have caught it that day - or when they typed it in.
Just transferring money from my checking to savings account they confirm my amount and say ALL TRANSACTIONS ARE FINAL, and I’m always VERY careful in double checking it.
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I find it curious that the shooter fired off (supposedly) 5 or 6 more shots and NOT ONE of the SS agents got hit.
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Interesting.
Ping
Someone knew something apparently.
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It was an inside job and there were bastards engaged in a Judas Iscariat move for their thirty pieces of silver.
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