The $760,000,000 trade

SOMEONE KNEW BEFORE YOU DID.

Dear Reader,

Twenty minutes before the world learned the Strait of Hormuz was reopening, someone sold $760 million in oil futures.

Not twenty days. Not twenty hours. Twenty minutes.

That is not a coincidence. That is not luck. That is not investing.

That is what the system looks like from the inside.

The mainstream headline says: Markets surge on Iran peace deal. Dow hits record 51,775. Nasdaq up 3%. Oil drops. Everyone wins.

Everyone except the people who paid $4.20 at the pump for four months while Washington was working on it.

IN TODAY'S ISSUE

•  The $760 million trade placed 20 minutes before the Hormuz announcement

•  Gold rose on a peace deal. Gold is not supposed to do that.

•  America's emergency oil supply is at its lowest level since 1983

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Let me give you the actual numbers.

On April 18, 2026, at 12:24 GMT, investors sold 7,990 lots of Brent crude futures. Total value: over $760 million. It was a short bet on oil. Twenty minutes later, Iran announced the Strait of Hormuz was reopening.

If you had that trade on, you made a fortune.

If you were filling up at a gas station in Iowa, you made nothing.

“The most likely explanation for Trump's Truth Social lies about Iran on Friday is market manipulation. If so, Trump insiders must have made billions.”

That is not a fringe account. That is a well-known economist.

Senators Mark Warner and Adam Schiff formally wrote to SEC Chair Paul Atkins and Pentagon Inspector General Platte Moring. Their letter used plain language:

“Recent reports of equity trading that occurred shortly before significant government policy announcements suggest that federal officials are disclosing material nonpublic information for financial gain.”

The SEC declined to comment. The Pentagon IG said they were reviewing the letter.

That is Washington for: nobody is going to jail.

REMEMBER THIS NUMBER: $760,000,000.

One position. Placed by someone who knew twenty minutes before you did.

Now look at gold.

On June 15, gold traded at approximately $4,310 an ounce. Markets rallied hard on the Iran deal. Risk assets surged. Oil dropped 4.76% to a three-month low. In a normal world, gold sells off with it. You rotate out of safe havens and into equities.

Gold went up.

That single fact tells you something the deal press release will never say. I want to show you exactly what it means for your money in the next 12 months.

Here is what gold rising on a peace deal actually means.

The smart money is not celebrating. They are not rotating out of gold because they do not believe the dollar problem got fixed. A 60-day interim deal with unresolved terms does not retire a $36 trillion national debt. It does not bring inflation back below 2%. May CPI came in at 4.2%, above consensus, accelerating from April. Energy is up 23.5% year over year. Gasoline: up 40.5%.

And the Strategic Petroleum Reserve now sits at 349.2 million barrels. The lowest level since August 1983.

WHEN REAGAN WAS IN OFFICE, THEY WERE FILLING THE SPR AT THESE LEVELS. TODAY'S ADMINISTRATION IS DRAINING IT.

The petrodollar system was built on oil flowing freely. Close the Strait of Hormuz for four months and trust in that system cracks. You do not repair that crack with a press conference in France.

I have been saying for 30 years: the dollar is backed by nothing but belief. I bought my first gold at $300 an ounce. It hit $5,597 in January 2026. It sits at $4,310 today. Some call that a pullback. I call that a window.

The insiders made their $760 million trade before you knew a deal was happening. That is the system working exactly as designed.

The only way out of a rigged game is to play a different one entirely.

Hard assets are not a trade. They are an exit from a system that was never designed to protect you.

Pigs get fat. Hogs get slaughtered.

To your freedom, Robert Kiyosaki

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