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[Peter Girnus 🦅 @gothburz]

I have three monitors on my desk. The left one shows the order book. The middle one shows Truth Social. The right one shows the investigation queue.

On April 21st, the left screen moved first.

I am a Senior Surveillance Analyst at a commodities exchange. I have held this position for nineteen years. My job is to monitor trading activity for suspicious patterns and generate compliance reports. I am employee of the quarter. I have a mug.

At 19:54 GMT on April 21st, someone placed 4,260 sell orders on Brent crude futures. They did this during post-settlement. The window after the market closes when daily volume is typically in the dozens. Sometimes single digits. Sometimes I watch the screen and nothing happens for forty minutes and I think about whether my daughter is happy.

On April 21st, someone placed $430 million in directional bets in 120 seconds during that window. One hundred and twenty seconds. I timed it on my watch because the system clock rounds to the nearest minute and I have found, in nineteen years, that precision matters to no one but me.

At 20:10 GMT, the President posted on Truth Social that he was extending the Iran ceasefire.

Brent dropped from $100.91 to $96.83.

I flagged the trade. I flag a lot of trades. I want to tell you what happens to my flags.

My flags go into a system called TRACE. Trade Review and Compliance Evaluation. I did not name it. The system generates a report. The report goes to a committee. The committee has a name I am not allowed to share but I can tell you it meets quarterly and the conference room has a credenza with bottled water that is sparkling because someone once put still water in the room and a managing director sent an email about it that was longer than most of my surveillance reports.

The committee reviews my flags. The committee has reviewed all of my flags. Here is the complete record of actions taken on my flags in 2026:

Reviewed.

That's it. "Reviewed" is a status. In compliance, a status is the absence of an action that has been given a name so it looks like one.

Let me show you my flags.

March 9th. Someone bet millions on oil falling at 18:29 GMT. Forty-seven minutes later, a CBS reporter posted that the President said the Iran war was "very complete, pretty much." Oil dropped 25%. Forty-seven minutes. I flagged it.

March 23rd. Someone sold 5,100 lots of Brent and WTI crude futures between 10:49 and 10:50 GMT. Fourteen minutes later, the President posted on Truth Social about a "COMPLETE AND TOTAL RESOLUTION" to hostilities. Oil dropped 11%. Over 13,000 contracts traded in sixty seconds after the post. Fourteen minutes. I flagged it.

April 7th. Someone established a $950 million short position in oil futures at 19:45 GMT. Three hours later, the President declared a two-week ceasefire. Nine hundred and fifty million dollars. I flagged it.

April 17th. Someone placed $760 million in bearish bets twenty minutes before Iran's foreign minister confirmed the Strait of Hormuz would reopen. Seven hundred and sixty million. I flagged it.

April 21st. The $430 million. Fifteen minutes. I flagged it.

That is $2.1 billion in directional oil bets in April alone. Every one of them landed on the correct side of a presidential announcement. Every one of them was placed in a window so narrow you could measure it in bathroom breaks. I flagged every single one.

The CFTC chair told a Congressional committee that his organization has "zero tolerance" for fraud and insider trading. I wrote that quote on a Post-it note and stuck it to my right monitor. The one that shows the investigation queue. The investigation queue has not moved since March.

Zero tolerance. Zero staff. Zero budget. Zero prosecutions under the STOCK Act since it was signed in 2012.

Fourteen years. The law has existed for fourteen years and has been enforced zero times. In compliance, we call that a compliance rate of one hundred percent. No cases filed means no cases lost. You cannot fail an audit you never conduct. We call that excellence.

Last month the White House sent an internal email to staff. I was not on the distribution list but I have read reporting on it and I need you to sit with what I am about to say. The email instructed White House staff not to use insider information to place bets on prediction markets.

The White House had to send a memo telling its own employees not to insider-trade.

I want you to read that sentence again. Not because the instruction was unclear. Because the instruction was necessary. Because someone in the building looked at the same pattern I have been flagging for months on my three monitors and decided the appropriate response was an email.

The President's son sits on the advisory board of Kalshi. He is an investor in Polymarket. Both are prediction markets. Both saw accounts created days before U.S. military action.

One account. I cannot stop thinking about this account. It was called "Burdensome-Mix." It was created in December. On January 2nd, it placed $32,500 on Venezuela's president being removed from power. On January 3rd, Maduro was seized by U.S. special forces. Burdensome-Mix collected $436,000. Then it changed its username. Then it disappeared.

One account is a coincidence. But there were six.

Six accounts were created on Polymarket in February. All bet on U.S. strikes on Iran by the 28th. When the President confirmed the strikes, the six accounts collected $1.2 million between them. Five of the six never placed another bet. The sixth went on to correctly predict the ceasefire date and made another $163,000.

My surveillance system logged all of this. My system logs everything. My system does not have opinions and neither do I. I generate reports. The reports go to committees. The committees meet quarterly. Between meetings, the windows get shorter and the bets get larger.

March 9th: 47 minutes. March 23rd: 14 minutes. April 17th: 20 minutes. April 21st: 15 minutes.

The window is compressing. In March, you had time to make coffee between the trade and the announcement. By April, you had time to send a text. By summer, at this rate, the trade and the announcement will be the same event.

The spokesman said any implication that administration officials are engaged in insider trading is "baseless and irresponsible reporting."

Then the White House sent the email again.

I have been in compliance for nineteen years. I have seen insider trading run out of strip mall offices by men who could not spell "derivative." I have seen pump-and-dump schemes coordinated over WhatsApp by people who used their real names. I have seen a man try to manipulate soybean futures from a Panera Bread.

I have never seen $2.1 billion in perfectly timed trades across five presidential announcements in a single month go uninvestigated.

But I have also never seen a compliance system work this beautifully. Every trade flagged. Every report filed. Every committee briefed. Every quarterly meeting attended. Bottled water: sparkling. Minutes: distributed.

Zero prosecutions.

As long as the flags go up and the cases don't, my performance review says I am meeting expectations.

I am meeting expectations. The system is meeting expectations. The $2.1 billion is meeting expectations. The fourteen-year-old law with zero prosecutions is meeting expectations.

The left screen moves. The middle screen moves. The right screen stays perfectly, immaculately still.

In my field, we call this price discovery.

[S. Ashton-Cirillo @AshtonCirillo]

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Lots have already been written about them and their actions in and against russia.

[Dmitry MacKenzie 🇺🇦 @dmitryshchipkov]

Please stay active.

If we lose the advantage we’ve gained at such a high cost, the terms will be imposed on us — and we will be forced to accept them, one way or another.

This is exactly why your support matters right now.
Every contribution helps us hold the line.
Every action strengthens those who are fighting.

Don’t let this effort be in vain.
Stand with Ukraine. Support those defending it.

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[Petra Blankwaard @indigonl]

Just sent 20 fivers to @Dmitro622248 to help buy two life-saving evacuation pickups for Ukraine’s 33rd Airborne Assault Regiment defenders.🛻🛻

Every pickup saves lives - getting wounded heroes to safety in minutes instead of days on foot. Too many have already fallen because help didn’t arrive fast enough. 😔

These vehicles are urgent. More support is needed now to get them to the front.

🎯 Goal 22,000
✅ Raised $13,400
🆘 $8,600 remains to fund the 2nd pickup.

PayPal: [email protected]
Every dollar counts. Please share 🙏

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[April Huggett @AprilHuggett]

We urgently need shotguns to counter fiber optic drones on the front line. These are increasingly used against our positions, and in #Kramatorsk making them especially dangerous.

A shotgun provides a critical last line of defense at close range when no other option works.

Cost per unit is $560 USD. Each one directly helps protect our soldiers and civilians.

Please share 🙏

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Help us protect the skies in Donetsk Oblast.

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[Концентроване зло 💜 @Koncentrovane]

Friends, it's time to wrap up the fundraiser for 3D production. It's already been two months since it started, and the printing material is quickly running out before our eyes! Please join in. 🙏🏻

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[Yuri Chornomorets @Y_Chornomorets]

⬇️ Friends, there is another mega important and constant need - shotguns and cartridges for them!!!
Your attention and support for the incredible efforts of #TeamYuri and the Dutch Lion in this direction are very much needed!!!

Let's help the Warriors of Light!!!
There will be a lot of wonderful gunpowder as the matching, which the best snipers are also waiting for!!!

Follow @MapleSyrupF for the TeamYuri Raffle updates!

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All ways to help (including Swift)
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[Veteran Aid Ukraine @Veteransforukr1]

Gas prices is only a problem if you have a car. Without a car you risk bleeding out. Support our ongoing medevac-deliveries at https://t.co/YeQC1qNPco

[NAFO_trinzu🇪🇪❤️🇺🇦🔱🦉 @trinzu]

⚡️ WAVE RAID

This is for my people on the Black Sea.
That alone is enough reason for me to keep pushing.

Please help me not leave this unfinished.

€5,200 left
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[Vladimir @Vladimir590482]

🚨 TURBO MODE ACTIVATED! PLUS $116.49 RECEIVED! 🚀🚙💨 🇺🇦

Fellas, you are incredible! While we were celebrating the match closure, a powerful "nitrous boost" of $116.49 just hit the "Zombie Truck's" tank! This rusted gentleman—officially more undead than diesel—is no longer just crawling; he’s racing toward the finish line! 🛠️🥀 🇺🇦

Thanks to this donation, we aren’t just holding at 75%; we’re carving deep into the final stage of the fundraiser. The 55th Brigade sappers are thrilled by this momentum—they see the home front standing firmly behind them.

📊 CURRENT STATUS:
• Total Raised (including Match): $7,376.42
• New Donation: +$116.49 ⚡️
• TOTAL IN THE BANK: $7,492.91 (76.5% LOADED! 🎯) 🇺🇦

📊 REMAINING TO RAISE: $2,307.09 ⏳
Final Goal: $9,800

We are at the point where the "Zombie Truck" begins its transformation into a real armored tool for the frontline. Every dollar now goes toward armor, parts, and lives saved. Let’s keep moving! 🔩🧱

Fuel the mission here:
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[DoggoCat95 @DoggoCat95]

Fellas, please support Mykola's university friend, Ivan. His unit needs their vehicle repaired, lost position recovered and FPVs upgraded. 🙏

[Yaness 🇺🇦 @yaness_____]

We are at the final stretch…
4th Operational Brigade needs this pickup to keep working on the front 🇺🇦
6,239$ raised — 2,261$ left
So little осталось — but we can’t finish without you.Please don’t scroll past.
Donate if you can. Repost if you can’t.
It truly matters.

🅿️🅿️: [email protected]
🙏🇺🇦

[Mr. Sausage @MrSausageGet]

Wow...LMAO.

[Oksii ✚ 🇺🇦 @Oksii33]

Let’s get the second drone👀

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[D.Radka, #NAFO 🇨🇿🤝🇺🇦 @DakdaR22]

Friends, please support defenders from Zaporizhzhia Oblast 🇺🇦
Fighters need terrain car for transport of supplies and evacuation.
Please consider your donating.

Thank you so much for keeping defenders mobile ❤️🫂

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[MR. SERGEANT🇬🇪🇺🇦🇪🇺🫡 @DekanadzeM55627]

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Please listen this video we need your support 🙏

dear #NAFOFella

It’s very important fundraiser in this moment ❗️❗️❗️

Chuika is saving the lives !!!

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2 pcs chuika(drone detector)1️⃣4️⃣6️⃣0️⃣💲

Goal 4️⃣1️⃣1️⃣5️⃣

Collected 1️⃣0️⃣1️⃣7️⃣💲

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[Petra Blankwaard @indigonl]

Friends, we have an emergency.🆘

Pls share and send help!!

@Dmitro622248 needs help to evacuate his wounded fighters. He's doing everything he can, but there's still about $1300 short for needed gear.

His guys are wailing for evac for three days now.

PayPal [email protected]

There's also an active raffle running, see below.

We need maximum visibility, let’s go!

[1 Team 1 Fight @1team1fight_org]

⚡ No power = no communication.

Power stations are vital for drones, radios, and battlefield coordination!

Please help the Separate Presidential Brigade keep critical equipment running in combat. 🙏

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#SupportTheFrontline #StandWithUkraine #OneTeamOneFight @Harri_Est @Dmitro7607 @DmytroKovalchu5

[Harri_EST🇪🇪🇺🇦 @Harri_Est]

These heroes need help and support‼️🙏

[Vladimir @Vladimir590482]

Sunday morning in Pokrovsk is not about brunch. It’s about praying the "Zombie Truck" starts one more time. 🧟‍♂️💨☕️

We’re starting the day with $0.00. The silence is heavy, and the mud is getting deeper. While the world rests, the 55th Brigade sappers are preparing to clear paths through minefields. They don't have a "day off" from danger. 🛠️🛡️

We are stuck at 23%. I’m ready to get my hands dirty and build them a beast (like the one I showed you before), but I need your fuel to buy the parts. 🚙⚡️

📊 Mission Intel:
• Raised: $2,256.22
• Still needed: $7,543.78
• Goal: $9,800

Don't let the weekend end on a zero. Every $5 is a middle finger to the mud! 🦴

Fuel the SUV here:
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#NAFO #Ukraine