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“Oil Bets Worth $580M” - MASSIVE Trades Hit BIG Minutes Before Trump's Iran Announcement

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4.81.7K Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2026

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Patrick Bet-David and the panel react to a massive $580 million oil trade placed just minutes before a market-moving Trump announcement. The timing raises serious questions about who had access to information and whether everyday investors are competing on an uneven playing field.

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0:00.0

$580 million oil bet just before Trump's announcement.

0:04.5

Within seconds before Trump's ceasefire post, traders placed extraordinary large oil future bets, roughly 1,500 contracts on Brent, WTI crude oil.

0:15.5

13 million barrels were traded between 1049 to 1050 GMT worth well over $500 million.

0:22.2

Some report cite 6200 contracts at 580 in that minute immediately after Trump announced

0:27.6

that 1105 GMT, which is like 15 minutes later, 13,000 plus contracts, 13 million barrels,

0:34.0

exchange hands in one minute oil prices plunged on the news.

0:38.0

Brent crude oil fell 15% from 112 to 99.

0:42.1

And WTI fell from 99 to 86 by comparison.

0:46.9

Before the war, Brent traded at 300,000 contracts a day.

0:50.7

Recently, daily volume have jumped to 1,000 contracts a day. Tom, thoughts volume have jumped to a thousand contracts a day. Tom,

0:56.9

thoughts on this story. I hate it. I absolutely hate this because the average American, the average

1:01.8

investor has no access to this. Who knew what the president was going to say? A circle of people

1:07.3

in Washington, D.C. They know what the president's going to say. And these contracts

1:10.9

are going out and basically after our trainings that some people don't even have access to,

1:15.5

and they put this out here. You know, this is why we need the insider trading rules that they won't

1:21.2

pass. You know, I look at this and I come to this, I've said it before. It's like, we don't

1:26.1

need term limits. We need jail.

1:27.9

You know, it's like, it's like if you're, there's the old joke.

1:31.9

If a senator is elected, what should he get?

1:34.8

And then the answer is 24 to 36, right?

1:38.5

If you were elected.

1:40.0

This disgust me, Pat.

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