The margin for error keeps shrinking on your end.
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On April 9 last year, in the minutes before Trump posted that it was a great time to buy and then paused his tariffs, somebody bought thousands of call options on the S&P. |
Not after the post. Before it. |
When the post hit and the market ripped 9.5% in an afternoon, one batch of those contracts went from about $2 million to roughly $21 million. |
Ten times the money in a few hours, by being positioned before the rest of us could even read the thing. It was timed well enough that senators started calling for an insider-trading investigation. |
Now Trump Media is turning that kind of head start into a product. |
Starting August 1, they're selling a feed called Truth API. For a reported six figures a month, the big algo and high-frequency firms get his posts piped to them in milliseconds, faster than you or I could open the app. |
The people who already have every advantage just bought another one, and it's one you and I are never going to be able to afford. |
This is how it always goes. The rich get another edge, the odds stack a little higher against the rest of us, and the margin for error keeps shrinking on your end. |
Which is exactly why you can't afford to hand them the one edge you do control. |
Nobody's handing you a post before the market sees it. That edge isn't for sale to people like us. |
But the way you run your own trades is yours, and it's the one thing they can't take. Most retail accounts don't get wrecked by the people out front. |
They get wrecked from the inside, by a position sized too big, by a trade nobody stopped to question, by a cost quietly bleeding out of an options position day after day. |
That's the stuff you can actually fix, and it's the stuff that decides whether you're still standing. |
The firms have their edge. This is yours. |
Five quick checks I run before I risk a dollar on any options trade. Today it's free. |
GET THE 60-SECOND CHECKLIST FREE |
To your success, |
Don Kaufman |
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