SPY, QQQ Call Volumes Spiked Minutes Before Tariff Pause Announcement: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Demands Disclosure From Congress Members

Yahoo finance ^ | April 12 26 | Rishabh Mishra

[aquila48]

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) has called for a disclosure by Congress members after observing that the Nasdaq call volume spiked minutes before President Donald Trump‘s announcement on a tariff pause.

What Happened: Trump announced a pause in the tariffs in a Truth Social post around 1:18 p.m. ET on Wednesday.

However, the data shared by Spencer Hakimian, the founder of Tolou Capital Management and Unusual Whales, a popular social media commentator and online suite for data feeds and tools on options flows, showed that call volumes for various contracts started spiking around 1:00 p.m. ET.

AOC, in an X post, said that “Any member of Congress who purchased stocks in the last 48 hours should probably disclose that now.”

of the tariff pause and traded it beforehand.

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 TODAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Those calls are… pic.twitter.com/8hG2i5Oijt

— unusual_whales (@unusual_whales) April 9, 2025

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KEYWORDS: qqq; tariffs; tipjar; tipjarthief; tips

[aquila48]

"It's time to ban insider trading in Congress."

For once I agree with Occasional Cortex.

[Brian Griffin]

“spiking around 1:00 p.m. ET”

Can you believe it?

Financial industry workers resuming work after the lunch hour!

[Gay State Conservative]

Were these calls from below the equator?

[VanShuyten]

Good luck with that, Sandy. Why don’t you throw in the Congressional Hush Money payouts while you’re at it?

[FlingWingFlyer]

Sandy Cortez can shove it. She should be home playing with her Barbies.

[Glennb51]

She is pissed she wasn’t in on it.

[fso301]

AOC, in an X post, said that “Any member of Congress who purchased stocks in the last 48 hours should probably disclose that now.” AOC likely had her boyfriend buy on her behalf.

[FrankRizzo890]

I agree as well, which is shocking. But I also think this might be a rock that she should be careful turning over.

[Parmy]

Considering that coming from someone who became extremely wealthy in her short time in Congress.

[AppyPappy]

She means for everyone else.

[The Sons of Liberty]

SPY, QQQ Call Volumes Spiked Minutes Before Tariff Pause Announcement: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Demands Disclosure From Congress Members

Maybe at the same time AOC can disclose how she went from an ex-waitress that couldn't afford to rent an apartment in DC to several million dollars.

[Libloather]

The socialist bartender is probably still on the ketamine. Sees things. And isn’t Pelosi the expert on this anyways?

[lula]

What happened, did she miss the boat?

[Mr. Blond]

The Nancy Pelosi Stock Tracker is quite successful.

[SunkenCiv]

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