Donald Trump releases the $1.2 million data feed that lets Wall Street front-run his market-moving policy announcements

On April 9, 2025, Donald Trump told his Truth Social followers that it was “a great time to buy,” then announced a 90-day pause on many of his new tariffs a few hours later. The S&P 500 finished the day 9.5% higher, Bitcoin gained more than 5%, and crypto traders holding short positions lost $374 million as markets repriced a policy change delivered through the president’s social-media account.The chain of events drew calls for an investigation into whether anyone had traded with advance knowledge, but it also revealed a deceptively simple but potentially very lucrative commercial opportunity. When one account can change the expected prices of imports, oil, government bonds, public-company shares, and Bitcoin, financial companies have a reason to place their software as close to that account as possible.Trump Media & Technology Group plans to sell that proximity through Truth API, a licensed data feed that the company expects to make available to institutional customers this weekend, Aug. 1. The company says the product will deliver posts from high-ranking Truth Social accounts around the clock, use standard financial-data systems to send the material in milliseconds, and p...