While insider trading is always a possibility, what often happen is trades are made in anticipation of an announcement without knowing what the announcement actually is, and Trump really is fairly predictable. You know hes going to TACO, question is when.
I would be more interested to know if the traders had insider knowledge of timing of the announcement or if it was leaked.
> It found a consistent pattern of spikes just hours, or sometimes minutes, before a social media post or media interview was made public.