Not To Ruin Your Day… But

Hi Shoppers,

So who knows what exactly is going on?

Anyone? Bueller?

Well, someone knew exactly what was going to happen to both the S&P 500 (ES) E-mini Futures and the Light Crude Oil (CL) Futures the moment Trump made his announcement Monday morning. He was going to wait five days before bombing Iran's power plants.

And that someone made a s&%t ton of money.

Check it out.

Here are the S&P 500 E-mini Futures on the one-minute chart Monday morning:

On the volume bar you can see anywhere from 400 to 1,000 contracts trading every minute, with a couple of 1,500 bars.

Then a huge buyer came in and grabbed 4,500 contracts, causing the futures to pop $15.

They traded sideways for 15 minutes after that.

Trump sends out his post and off they went: the futures rallied $138.75 in one minute.

In five minutes they were up $214.75.

At the same exact time, a Light Crude Oil Futures seller came in:

Before the big seller showed up, futures were trading 100 to 400 contracts.

That someone in the know had 2,100 contracts to unload.

And down they went: $4.41 in the first minute, down $14.26 in five minutes.

There are no coincidences in trading. Someone knew and made a boatload.

Oh, and a little icing on the cake: Citadel Securities just reported a record $12.2 billion in trading revenue for 2025.

Those wide markets you always hear me b*&%h about? That's Citadel being a "market maker."

GGGRRRRRR!

Thank You For Reading. See You Next Tuesday,

Licia Leslie

P.S. Andrew and Hannah are revealing Sybil’s first trade today at 1:15 ET.

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Licia Leslie

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Former CBOE floor trader and CIO at Karman Line Capital. Author of ‘The Option Traders Hedge Fund’ with over 30 years of options trading experience.

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