champagne papaya

All stache, some game. Chaotic Neutral

[Ammanichanda @Arkasiraee]

Let me explain educate you all what just happened,

5 minutes before the President announced a halt to attacks on Iran…

Someone placed a $1.5 BILLION bet on stocks going up and dumped $192 million in oil.5 minutes.

These trades were 4 to 6 times larger than anything else in the market at that time.

Whoever did this wasn’t guessing.

You don’t risk $1.5 billion on a hunch.

There was zero public indication this announcement was coming.

No leaks.

No press.

Nothing.

The only people who knew were in the room when the decision was made.

Someone in that room picked up a phone.

And within minutes, they made more money than most Americans will earn in a thousand lifetimes.

In a single trade.

On a war that cost you $4+ gas and $16 billion in tax dollars.

American citizens funded this war. Politicians are positioned to profit from it.

This is not the first time.

Major announcements have repeatedly been preceded by suspicious market moves tariff reversals, policy shifts, war decisions.

This may be one of the most blatant examples of potential insider advantage in modern American politics.

You would go to prison for trading on a tip from your cousin.

Yet billion-dollar trades happen minutes before decisions like this and no one asks questions.Nobody gets investigated.

Nobody gets charged.

By tomorrow, this will be buried under the next headline.

Just like last time.

And the time before that.

The game is rigged. The insiders pull the strings and win over and over.

And they’re not even trying to hide it anymore.

[champagne papaya @TriForceBeers]

@YouTube the thumbnails on the desktop version are horrendous fix your shit

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

BREAKING: House Democrats like AOC and Mike Levin just sent a letter to Speaker Mike Johnson, asking that politicians be required to immediately disclose stock trades made around the tariff announcements.

[champagne papaya @TriForceBeers]

@td_williamss @jimcramer @JDShuttlesworth Puts

[Bobby Small Beers @Natty_Brooks]

Philadelphia Phillies.

[Carter Starocci @carterstarocci]

This game is a cut throat business. So that’s why I came into this game a boss. Bouta get my fourth natty daddy like one too. I will remain ruthless and piss on this kids graveyard tonight. Remember this is chess, not checkers ;)

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

On Nov 22nd, Nancy Pelosi and her husband bought Nvidia, $NVDA call options, a leveraged bet Nvidia would go up.

Since then, her Nvidia calls are up 85%. Her calls have made her $1.8 million, over EIGHT times her salary in 93 days.

I want to give you the history of Pelosi’s trading, $NVDA, and show the conflicts within Congress:

Let’s start in December 2021. After a history of unusual trading, from Visa, trading during the GFC, and buying before stimulus bills, Nancy Pelosi was asked if she thinks US Congress members should trade despite legislative conflicts by Bryan Metzger.

She said, "We are a free market economy. Congress should be able to participate in that". Insane.

In Jan 2022 Unusual Whales releases their most famous trading report, showing Congress beat the market. Nancy Pelosi is listed as the fifth best trader in Congress.

That report creates a flurry of media and outrage. Within seven days of publishing, five new bills banning members of Congress from trading are proposed for the first time ever. Unusual Whales changes history.

But in the summer of 2022, it is revealed that Nancy Pelosi was trading millions of dollars of $NVDA, Nvidia before voting on a US semiconductor bill by the Biden administration.

We reported on her trading to outrage by the public. Interestingly, for the first time in history, a few days later Nancy Pelosi disclosed trades made on the same day they were made. This is likely the fastest disclosure in history of US Congress. She reported that she sold out of her Nvidia position, the first time she divested from conflicts in her portfolio. Despite taking 45 days for every other disclosure, she made this one instantly. Hilarious.

One month later Nancy Pelosi proposed alongside Representative Lofgren her own Congressional trading ban, a bill which was incredibly weak and filled with loopholes.

And then, Pelosi stopped trading. Well, until her $NVDA leveraged bet.

You should be reminded that in August of 2022, Pelosi met with TSMC Chairman Mark Liu, showing how critically important semiconductors were to U.S. national security and the integral role that the company plays in making the most advanced chips.

One week after Chinese President Xi visits her home state of California in 2023, and before Biden announced new US semiconductor focuses over this year in 2024, her husband decided to buy two million dollars of deep in-the-money Nvidia calls, the same company she divested from due to conflicts a year earlier. This is her largest trade in years.

What’s worse on Dec 11th, before she bought in November, U.S. Commerce Secretary Raimondo said that Nvidia could sell slower AI chips to China to comply with US export controls. And then, on Dec 28th, NVDA launched a modified version of an advanced chip precisely to get around US restrictions.

Nvidia now has released new US chips, and has hit all time highs. Of course, none of this is insider trading, but it does seem unusual, especially given scrutiny of Nvida by the government.

Why does she trade ITM tech calls, you may ask? It allows for one to be bullish with less capital upfront due to capital efficiency in options, and the contracts move 1 delta to the stock. We wrote more about it on our research site, which you can find in our bio.

One terrible thing about this trade is that it was done when Congress was in session!!!!!! You can use Unusual Whales to find the exact price she paid for her options and leveraged bets, which was done twenty minutes before the close of the market.

If you think that one of the most powerful politicians in the US can, or even should, have leveraged bets over an incredibly important company to US infrastructure, that is okay. But there might be something worthwhile in understanding how members of Congress trade, and the data suggests as such. Especially if that member is outperforming generally. Pelosi herself has lost a ton on trades, including when she divested from $NVDA last year, and yet despite that she decided to enter into it again. Her re-entry becomes interesting because of her timing, exiting the trade publically and quickly before (for a loss), but now making triple the loss amount in 92 days now.

And so we will keep reporting on Pelosi, and Congress, and the history of unusual trading. Pelosi's portfolio itself is up around 88% over twelve months. If you want to find and follow her portfolio, you can do so on Unusual Whales in our Portfolio tab.

Pelosi has made more than ten million this year alone off her tech portfolio, with a networth close to likely a quarter of billion. No matter what trade or conflict though, I will report on it. If you believe this is an important issue, I ask you share this tweet with your friends, and family.

Congress cannot hide from me, I will continue to report on the data, and I will not stop until Congress is banned from trading.

[mike @cheapie24]

I SUMMON POT OF GREED TO DRAW 3 ADDITIONAL LEGS TO MY PARLAY

[Michael Reeves @michaelreeves]

If you're in Santa Barbara and stole my custom built electric pink Barbie scooter last night. I am not mad, I just hope you have fun with it

And then I hope the front axel snaps and all your teeth get smashed out you fucking rat bitch. I will never stop looking for you until th

[Scorigami @NFL_Scorigami]

CLE 12 - 29 DEN
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That's Scorigami!! It's the 1081st unique final score in NFL history.

[champagne papaya @TriForceBeers]

Who’s the IT intern that blew up the servers over at @SpiritAirlines and destroyed everyone’s flight plans this morning

[champagne papaya @TriForceBeers]

Jim Harden on the court today

[champagne papaya @TriForceBeers]

Step1: win the lottery
Step2: spend money on rocket
Step3: blast myself into the sun

[Tanzoo & Virtoso @TanzooVirtoso]

Chat up a girl behind the crafting guild, call that Rizzington

[champagne papaya @TriForceBeers]

@bverrastro_10 Aged like milk

[champagne papaya @TriForceBeers]

@PhilaParking 1:30ish today. If you enforce the rules you should follow them too

[champagne papaya @TriForceBeers]

@PhilaParking can I ticket your employee for parking in a no parking