Welcome to the world of commodity trading. There is no SEC here, and this is business as usual. You can look at T&S to see this for yourself, but this is (like it or not) how this typically goes in commodity markets.
Does the SEC even matter anymore with the current administration?
Commodity trading is managed by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission CFTC and a criminal probe into this started last month.
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/us-probes-suspicious...