Source: Common Dreams
by Claude H Miller
“Military threats move markets before they move armies. Announce a massive strike against Iranian oil, military, and infrastructure sites, and traders will immediately begin pricing in damaged production, regional retaliation, interrupted shipping, higher insurance costs, and possible disruption of the Strait of Hormuz. No missile needs to be launched. The announcement itself can add a substantial geopolitical premium to every barrel of oil. Cancel the attack a few days later, however, and much of that premium may disappear just as quickly. … for someone possessing advance knowledge of both the threat and its prearranged cancellation, the same sequence could provide an extraordinary opportunity to profit from a government-created price movement in both directions.” (08/03/26)
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/how-to-make-money-on-war-with-insider-information