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mahatmakanejeeves

(68,271 posts)
Wed Mar 5, 2025, 04:37 PM Mar 2025

Trading Volume In This Nasdaq-Listed Firm Soared Before Don Jr. And Eric Trump Were Announced As Board Members

Source: Forbes

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Trading Volume In This Nasdaq-Listed Firm Soared Before Don Jr. And Eric Trump Were Announced As Board Members—‘Suspicious,’ Experts Say

Zach Everson
Forbes Staff
Zach Everson is a staff writer at Forbes covering money in politics.
Mar 5, 2025, 03:13pm EST

Topline Trading in Dominari Holdings Inc. soared ahead of the February announcement that Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump had taken stakes in the company and joined its advisory board—an increase some securities law experts called “suspicious.”


President Donald Trump's sons Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump attended the first day of the 2024 Republican National Convention in Milwaukee in July. (Photo by BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)AFP via Getty Images

Key Facts
• Between Feb. 12 and Dec. 29, 2024, trading in Dominari Holdings—a Nasdaq-listed firm that specializes in wealth management, investment banking, sales and trading, asset management and capital investment—averaged 11,500 shares a day, never exceeding 71,000 shares, with a price range of $1.10 to $3.20.

• On Dec. 30, trading shot up to 358,000 shares, kicking off a surge that saw daily volume average 1.2 million shares a day through Feb. 10, 2025—when it skyrocketed to 23.7 million shares—as the stock price climbed from $0.83 to $6.50.

• On Feb. 11, an hour before markets opened, Dominari Holdings announced that Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump had joined its advisory board and acquired an undisclosed amount of shares in the company, sending the stock to a 52-week high of $11.33.

• The price peaked at $13.58 two days later but has since fallen, closing at $6.74 on Tuesday.

• Donald Trump Jr., Eric Trump and spokespeople for Dominari Holdings did not respond to inquiries.

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Read more: https://www.forbes.com/sites/zacheverson/2025/03/05/donald-trump-jr-eric-dominari-holdings-stock-nasdaq-trading-volume/



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Trading Volume In This Nasdaq-Listed Firm Soared Before Don Jr. And Eric Trump Were Announced As Board Members (Original Post) mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2025 OP
They'll fire the regulators IronLionZion Mar 2025 #1
Suspicious is a euphemism genxlib Mar 2025 #2
So many crazy coinkydinks flow around the Trump family. tanyev Mar 2025 #3
I'm starting to wonder if Trump's on again, off again tariffs are market manipulation. Every time they're Vinca Mar 2025 #4
Never gambled on the Stock Market MissouriDem47 Mar 2025 #5
Yes... littlemissmartypants Mar 2025 #8
Members of the royal imperial majestic holy family are immune from law and suspicion. AmericaUnderSiege Mar 2025 #6
Stock EPK1109 Mar 2025 #7
Welcome to DU LetMyPeopleVote Mar 2025 #9

IronLionZion

(50,830 posts)
1. They'll fire the regulators
Wed Mar 5, 2025, 04:43 PM
Mar 2025

anyone who finds it suspicious is "bad performance", "DEI", or "fraud, waste, and abuse". Trump wants to get rid of regulations. His speech stated for every new regulation, get rid of 10 regulations.

genxlib

(6,086 posts)
2. Suspicious is a euphemism
Wed Mar 5, 2025, 04:48 PM
Mar 2025

The word they are looking for is "evidence".

Clear evidence of insider trading.

I am sure the SEC will get right on that.

tanyev

(48,673 posts)
3. So many crazy coinkydinks flow around the Trump family.
Wed Mar 5, 2025, 04:51 PM
Mar 2025

Like the Trump Org-Alfa Bank-Spectrum Health computer server three-way. And Spectrum Health’s connection to major Trump donors, one of whom got appointed to his cabinet in his first term.

What are the odds of that being a completely innocent coincidence???

😒

Vinca

(53,364 posts)
4. I'm starting to wonder if Trump's on again, off again tariffs are market manipulation. Every time they're
Wed Mar 5, 2025, 05:08 PM
Mar 2025

announced the market tanks, then he decides to "wait a month" and they go back up.

littlemissmartypants

(31,678 posts)
8. Yes...
Wed Mar 5, 2025, 11:05 PM
Mar 2025

I believe that it's referred to as "pump and dump."
From a search...


One can pump and dump with tariffs. Tariffs are taxes imposed on imported goods, and countries have long relied on them to support local industries by making foreign products more expensive. However, tariffs can be lower for countries with which the United States has trade agreements. For example, before the U.S. began imposing 25% tariffs on goods from Canada and Mexico, most goods moved between the United States and those countries were tariff-free due to the U.S.-Mexico-Canada trade agreement.


The market can be manipulated by company/sector. Energy companies were up this morning. They could be down by tomorrow. So, you are correct, there's no doubt that the market is being manipulated.

 

AmericaUnderSiege

(777 posts)
6. Members of the royal imperial majestic holy family are immune from law and suspicion.
Wed Mar 5, 2025, 06:52 PM
Mar 2025

Have you not heard the proclamation from the Almighty Kangaroo Court?

EPK1109

(1 post)
7. Stock
Wed Mar 5, 2025, 09:46 PM
Mar 2025

Sounds like classic insider trading to me. Guess they'll have to check who did the purchasing? Wait didn't he fire most of the Security and Echange Commission.

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