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bhouston on April 12, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: $70M in 60 Seconds: How Insider Info Helped Someon...

You are inferring too much from that comment. I think those people just had large stock holdings in general and were he market went up a lot that day.

testing22321 on April 12, 2025 [–]

The market briefly went up 7% that day.

To make 2.5 billion just from holdings they must have had stock holdings of 35 billion. Then the next day they lost a lot more than that. I doubt it very, very much.

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