Probably he was getting stock tips from Hillary.
Hillary!(tm) never would have dreamed of investing in gold stocks, taking profit and rolling it over into oil stock. Her only "investing" success was taking the $100,000 brib...errr...$99,000 "profit" in beef futures, "earned" through "thoughtful" interpetation of trending the daily futures quotes from the Wall Street Journal, an exercise she could neither explain coherently or duplicate. Plus, she used some Tyson Chicken executive's investment account because she couldn't figure out how to open her own.