The world is a huge rat warehouse, you and I are all prey in the game

Author: Shenchao TechFlow

From Wall Street to blockchain, "Rat Warehouse" is not a new word.

However, in the past, the mice were still a little ashamed, but now they have completely shown up and are not pretending.

In early 2025, Trump issued Meme coins and manipulated the market in the name of "crypto strategic reserves". Now, Trump has wielded the tariff stick and started playing Sichuan opera, changing his face repeatedly, pushing this conspiracy between power and capital to a historic high point.

When the president becomes a trader, supervision becomes a fig leaf, and the world has become an arena for giant rat trading - and you and I are all prey in the game.

White House becomes a casino: Trump 's face-changing technique

“As more than 75 countries have contacted the United States for negotiation and have not retaliated against the United States in any way, form or form under my strong suggestion, I have authorized a 90-day moratorium on it and significantly lowered the reciprocal tariffs on other countries to 10% during this period, effective immediately.”

During the session of the US stock market, Trump's social media speech caused the three major U.S. stock indexes that had previously been anxious reversed and soared across the board.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose by more than 2,900 points, a rise of 7.87%, the largest increase since March 25, 2020; the S&P 500 rose by 9.52%, the largest increase since October 29, 2008; the Nasdaq soared by 12.16%, the second largest single-day increase in history.

The "Seven Technological Bigs" of the US stock market soared across the board, with a total market value increasing by US$1.85 trillion (approximately RMB 13.4 trillion) in just one day, and all this happened within a few hours.

It is interesting that shortly after the opening of the US stock market, Trump himself posted on his social media platform Truth Social, saying: "Now is an excellent time to buy." He also encouraged fans to "calm down" and predicted that "everything will be resolved smoothly."

At that time, these remarks seemed to be an encouragement to the market, but combined with everything that happened later, it made people feel more associations.

According to market data disclosed by Unusual Whales, before Trump issued this "buy" suggestion, traders had already opened a large number of $QQQ, $TQQQ and $SPY call options. What is even more shocking is that at a critical moment before the announcement of the tariff suspension news, someone opened $SPY 509 call options that expired on the same day, and these options soared by an astonishing 2,100% in just one hour!

All trading volumes were newly opened on the same day, which was particularly abnormal when the market volatility index (IVR) was as high as 82 and the implied volatility (IV) was extremely high. Traders seem to be confident about the direction of the market and make directional bets firmly.

Using net premium data tracking, it can be clearly seen that after these opening operations, more investors followed up, loading call options in large quantities, betting on market reversals. All this points to a disturbing conclusion: Someone knew about this major policy shift in advance.

On X, many people expressed dissatisfaction but were helpless.

“Trump uses the presidency to earn millions of dollars for his family and friends.”

“The market is like a casino for relationship users, and we are just fools at the gambling table.”

Even more ironic, CNBC reported a few days ago that Trump was considering suspending 90-day tariffs on some countries. At that time, White House press secretary Caroline Levitt quickly came forward to refute the rumors, calling it "fake news."

A few days later, this "rumor" turned into a "far ahead prophecy."

Trump plays with coin circle

This is not the first time Trump has manipulated the financial market this year. He has previously played around with the currency circle twice.

On March 2, 2025, Trump announced on social media that he would establish a "cryptocurrency strategic reserve" to directly promote the surge in tokens such as XRP, SOL, and ADA.

Just as everyone was curious why not mention BTC and ETH, Trump once again posted in the community media, saying, " It is obvious that BTC and ETH, as well as other valuable cryptocurrencies, will be at the core of the reserves. I also like Bitcoin and Ethereum."

Ethereum rose in response.

However, these moves and actions are more like Trump's son's masterpiece, and his second son Eric Trump applauded on social media:

I like the genius move to announce strategic reserves on Sunday, because traditional markets were closed and Wall Street was sleeping. Retail investors win for the first time. Traditional finance is best to catch up, otherwise it will soon become extinct. The world is no longer Monday to Friday, operating from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Regarding this "shouting order", the crypto industry has booed and questioned that members of the Trump family may have a large number of rat-handling behaviors involved.

In January 2025, during the issuance of Trump Meme coins, there were also a large number of rat trading hidden.

Data analysis platform Bubblemaps pointed out that a 6QSc2 starting address had obtained funds 4 hours before the release of the TRUMP token, and in the first minute of the release of the token, it spent US$1 million to purchase 5.9 million TRUMPs.

The address then transferred all TRUMP to the ff.sol address, and then distributed to 10 addresses, sold in batches, cashing out tens of millions of dollars.

This is just the tip of the iceberg of the rat trading. The Trump family has publicly cashed out hundreds of millions of dollars through Meme coins such as $TRUMP. In the crypto market that lacks supervision, Trump is even more unscrupulous.

Perhaps it is not surprising to those who are familiar with Trump, because he was also questioned during his last term using the inside information he created to participate in profit.

In 2019, the American magazine Vanity Fair published an exclusive report saying that in Trump 's series of seemingly chaotic tariff statements on China and the United States, there is a secret of extremely profitable rat trading.

Taking June 28 as an example, during the last 30 minutes of trading that day, someone made a big deal to long S&P futures contracts.

Subsequently, Trump announced the resumption of negotiations between China and the United States in Osaka, Japan. Stimulated by good news, US stocks rose sharply. This mysterious fund that was heavily long made a profit of nearly US$1.8 billion in a week.

The world is as dark as a crow. Not only Trump, but most other White House officials are also masters who are powerful in the financial market.

For example, former Democratic Speaker Pelosi has the reputation of "Capital Hill Stock God" and has many impressive results:

In January 2021, Pelosi’s husband Paul bought $1 million worth of Tesla stock before the Biden administration announced subsidies to electric vehicles;

In March 2021, Microsoft received a USD 22 billion order for AR combat helmets. Before the stock price soared, Paul bought Microsoft stock at a low price;

In July 2021, Paul was longing for Google while conducting an antitrust investigation into large American technology companies, but Google was not affected in the end. The stock price rose sharply, and Paul made a lot of money;

In July 2022, the U.S. Congress voted on a chip manufacturing subsidy bill that aims to provide $52 billion in subsidies to the U.S. chip industry, while Paul had purchased $1 million to $5 million in Nvidia's stock a few weeks ago.

According to OpenSecrets statistics, in 2021, the Pelosi and his wife's return on investment was as high as 56.15%. In 2024, Pelosi's investment portfolio made a profit of 70.9%, which far exceeded the 25% increase of the S&P 500 Index, and also exceeded the "stock god" Buffett (return 26%), Wall Street's "actuary king" David Shaw, and "father of quantitative investment" Jim Simons and other famous investment players.

The Arrogance of Power: The Ultimate Bully of Financial Markets

Why do we hate rat steward so much?

Because this is the bullying of the privileged class against ordinary people who abide by the rules.

In the financial market, ordinary investors work hard to research and take risks, and they pursue nothing more than: fairness, fairness or fairness.

When a head of state can manipulate the market through policy announcements as he wishes and let his confidants make profits in advance, this is no longer just a matter of insider trading, but a complete distortion of power on the market mechanism.

In the traditional sense, most of the rat warehouse relies on insider information to make profits, act concealed, and at least know that their behavior is not glorious.

Now, Trump not only directly creates insider information, but also publicly promotes it without any concealment, showing a "what can you do to me?"

In this era of deep kidnap by power and capital, if even the most basic market fairness cannot be guaranteed, then the so-called globalization and free market economy are just a one-man show for the power elites.

Perhaps, this is the ultimate form of contemporary capitalism— power directly manipulates the market, the elites openly harvest global wealth, and most people can only act as ignorant pieces in this huge rat-handling game.