Buying "a few milliseconds" for $100,000: When presidential posts become paid insider information, what are we still playing at?
Over the past year, how many times have you only realized the market was about to move after scrolling through a Trump post?
Tariffs, the Iran war, monetary policy—one of his posts can cause the S&P 500 to surge 9% in a single day.
By the time you see it, the price has already soared or crashed.
You think, "The news was too fast; I couldn't keep up."
The truth is—you’re not even on the same starting line.
On August 12, two U.S. media organizations—The Intercept and the Freedom of the Press Foundation—filed a lawsuit against Trump in the New York Federal Court.
What’s the lawsuit about?
It’s about his paid data service called "Truth API."
This service charges $60,000 to $100,000 per month, prioritizing the delivery of posts from Trump and other White House officials to paying Wall Street firms at "millisecond-level" speed.
$100,000 to buy a few milliseconds.
A few milliseconds in quantitative trading means tens of millions of dollars in profit difference.
More than 10 high-frequency trading firms have already signed up, with expected annual revenue of $7 million to $12 million—2 to 3 times the company’s total revenue last year.
There’s a passage in the complaint I read three times—
"The president gains economic benefits by providing government information that 'impacts the market' to those willing and able to pay his personal company."
To translate:
Trump posts something that might affect the market—Wall Street pays to see it a few milliseconds earlier and completes their trades—then you see it—the price has already changed—you chase the highs or cut losses—Trump’s company profits.
And you are the only one in this chain who pays but is always a step behind.
The advocacy director of the Freedom of the Press Foundation said:
"The president sells priority access to the information he releases to profit his private company under his control—this behavior is so blatantly corrupt and unconstitutional that it was unimaginable just a few years ago."
Unimaginable a few years ago. Today, it’s live and operating.
You might ask: Isn’t this just an "information gap"? Wall Street has Bloomberg terminals and professional data services—what’s different?
The difference is—the "source" of this information is the creator of the information and the largest shareholder of this information service.
Trump holds over 40% of Trump Media & Technology Group.
He posts—his company profits. He sells the posts early to Wall Street—his company profits again.
One piece of information, profiting twice.
And when you see it, the soup is already cold.
What’s more ironic?
Trump Media & Technology Group lost $238 million in Q2 this year.
Bitcoin holdings are underwater by hundreds of millions. Daily active users are only 260,000, down 40% year-over-year.
Traffic is poor, advertising is poor, cryptocurrency is poor.
Then they found a new business model—selling the president’s "time difference."
During his second term, Trump posted and reposted about 10,000 posts on Truth Social, many without accompanying official White House statements.
In other words—if you want to know what the president is saying first, the only channel is his own paid platform.
Democratic Senators Warren and Schiff have already written to the SEC demanding an investigation.
But investigations take time.
And the market trades every millisecond.
Back to us.
In this market, what are we facing?
Algorithms that are a few milliseconds faster than you. Institutions paying $100,000 a month for "priority." A president who profits from posting.
Are you still looking at candlesticks, counting waves, analyzing MACD golden and death crosses?
They’re playing the game of information production, distribution, and pricing.
You analyze the "past." They trade the "future"—the future a few milliseconds ahead.
I’m not telling you to despair.
I’m telling you to wake up.
In this market, "fairness" is never the default setting.
If you don’t have a $100,000 monthly fee, millisecond-level fiber optics, or AI algorithms to automatically interpret posts—
don’t consider yourself an "information trader."
You can only be a "price follower."
And the only survival rule for price followers is not chasing news—it’s waiting for the news to be fully digested before watching the direction.
Trump posts, institutions complete trades within milliseconds, the market digests it within minutes.
When you rush in then, whose position are you taking?
Think about it yourself.
When information itself becomes a commodity, and the creator of the information is also the seller—this market is no longer trading assets.
It’s trading "who sees it first."
And you are never the one who sees it first.
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