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If you pay to have the info a few seconds before everyone else, does this make it insider trading?
This creates an incentive to post things that cause high volatility (even in the downward direction) as that creates a "subscribe if you want early warning of market dips" pressure factor.
Insider trading as a service. They're not even pretending not to do it, utterly shameless.
New low..
Seriously, there are no limits to his graft. This is commercialisation of insider trading. He is shameless.
Crazy times we live in that a president can do this.
that a politician tries to be corrupt isn't new.

the crazy times part is that the gun-totin freedom lovin americans refuse to do jack shit about it.

i believe the term is "chickenhawks"

I still remember when Obama wearing a tan suit was controversial.
Every country gets the government it deserves.

-- Joseph de Maistre, 1811

How do some third graders in Alabama deserve this? How do my 22-year-old waiter friends in rural Texas deserve this?

What exactly did they do to deserve this?

The epstein-guest-pedo-leader of the "claim-to-be-leader-nation" monetize billion in crypto, poorly chineese manufactured phone and sells access to own market-manipulation-intended-texts. It's so much bad stuff that poor people don't even know how to start battling with it...

The music on this sinking ship will keep playing till the very end. It's a decline. There is no observable way up from this point.

How could US now be even worse than the spoils system era?
Yet if the average corporate person does insider trading it comes with a prison sentence not pricing.

It’s wild how banana republic level corrupt the US is all of a sudden. Really went from 0 to 100 in months

Generally the SCOTUS majority seems to feel "It's ok if our president does it." when it it comes to most things.

The few times they disagree they let it stand (like tariffs) and allows the government to collect illegal taxes from the people, and then just shrug at the end with "well guess that was wrong"... and the citizens get nothing back.

> if the average corporate person does insider trading it comes with a prison sentence not pricing

More like it went from 60 to 100. Laws not applying to very wealthy and connected people is definitely not a new development in the USA. But yes, the trend has been accelerating and become very blatant and in-your-face.

you're about 3 administrations late to the party. The only difference now is that you're paying attention.
Insider Trading as a Service.
> The new commercial data feed, named Truth API, promises to deliver posts to paying institutional clients in "milliseconds".

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> The company, which launched its social media app in 2022, said some firms have been copying its data for months without permission.

> McGurn warned that Trump Media will soon block these methods, forcing firms to buy the official feed instead.

This looks like it is monetizing and organizing scrapers. Isn't basically everyone doing this with data feeds these days?

At best this just gives a few milliseconds head start to subscribers and cracks down on automation. I would be shocked if NYSE, etc. don't already have premium tiers with faster market data and those feeds are certainly paid APIs. It's known that HFT shops will co-locate, for example, to have low latency.

This looks really bad, but if it were X and not Truth Social, there wouldn't be anything to see. It goes to the underlying issue of Trump owning and trying to profit from Truth Social generally.

Waiting for the Polymarket joint venture...
Wake up America, they're laughing into your face
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Kleptocracy in all its forms.

As this president likes to say,”A disgrace”. And every accusation is a confession.

Elections have consequences.

This merely "encourages" Trump and team to move the markets even more, to sell more subscriptions ?

He and his staff can plan out specific utterances that are substantial for moving the markets - endless feedback loop ?

The grift that keeps on grifting. To put it poetically, everyday discovering something brand new.
The government is one giant taxpayer-funded scam after another. Not that I like Trump in any way, but I’m somewhat thankful that he’s so brazen with the corruption and shedding light on everything.

There’s not a single respectable politician. Obama was worth $1-2M before he became president, and is now worth $70M+.

Insider trading as a service. The corruption knows no bounds.