As Kevin Barrett noted, these suspected insider trades took place on March 23, April 7, April 16, April 21, and then again last Wednesday, May 6.

Although the Iranians soon explained that they weren’t actively negotiating with the Americans and they ridiculed the media reports that a peace agreement might be imminent, oil prices still sharply fell and stayed down, which seemed totally irrational.

After so many false reports of a peace agreement being almost at hand and the strait about to be reopened, I found it difficult to believe that even the most gullibly optimistic trader would accept these statements at face value, let alone that there were enough of those traders to move the markets in such dramatic fashion.

But perhaps the solution to this mystery was that these major market movements were actually due to trading by AI systems, which made their decisions mostly based upon how they expected all the other AI trading systems would react to Trump’s statements. A shrewd observer had suggested this possibility last month:

An offhand comment the other night by an MSNow commentator gives us the first insight. He mentioned that a lot of trading isn’t being done by humans but by algorithms that search the news and what’s trending on the web for clues about how the market will move the next day.

So when Trump Truths that the war with Iran is over — they’re opening the strait and have agreed to all his terms and are becoming the 51st state — the algorithm doesn’t need to believe him. It just needs to see that true or not, this statement will move stocks up and oil down. With so much trading done by algorithms, each algorithm knows stocks will rise because the other algorithms will move them.

With 70% of daily trading done by algorithms, humans have become largely irrelevant to the stock market. So it isn’t people at all moving the market.

From: Will America Be Expelled from the Middle East?

Why would silver and gold spot prices drop when the geopolitical conditions are as they are now? Why would oil futures behave as they are with such uncertainty? Why does the stock market keep rising in the face of obvious economic difficulty? I’m no financial expert, but it has seemed to me that there’s a great deal of manipulation in all the markets, Corruption and insider trading. But … perhaps it’s the algorithms after all?