President Trump traded stocks over 3,700 times in Q1 2026 - averaging 59 trades per day, 9 per hour, or one trade every 7 minutes
u/uncle-ice493 ·
Reddit — r/stocks
· May 19, 2026 at 00:38
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The post reports that President Trump executed over 3,700 personal stock trades in Q1 2026, totaling $750 million, based on OGE filings.
The author’s thesis is that this trading volume is evidence of profiting from policy influence and insider information, labeling it corruption.
Quality assessment: This is noise mixed with news aggregation — the post links to credible sources but offers no original analysis or data-driven investment thesis.
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Based off real public filings with the U.S. Office of Government Ethics (OGE)
\- More than 3700 Transactions
Transactions totaled $750 million
Wall Street analysts called the volume “insane” for a personal portfolio… To me, the president is clearly profiting from policy influence. It’s literally corruption in broad daylight. Even if it’s a third party trading for him, they are obviously getting insider information from him &/or his administration so that argument is irrelevant.
CNBC https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/15/trump-stock-trade-tech-oge.html
Yahoo https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/trump-traded-nvidia-boeing-intel-030913697.html
Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-14/trump-bought-nvidia-boeing-microsoft-in-flurry-of-transactions
Reuters https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/trump-ethics-filing-reveals-thousands-trades-tied-us-corporate-securities-2026-05-14/