Profited from knowing this was about to happen? Did Putin using others to buy for him also?

Trump was bragging about a big deal coming in a few days while he was goofing off at Mar-A-Loco.

The DJIA was up 1.16% for the day with many of the 30 up over 2%.

https://money.cnn.com/data/markets/dow/

Fuck “fair”! This ain’t anything close to fair!

First, the market as a whole was up over 1.4 percent.
Second, this was the first trading day after the year-end announcement that L-M had won over $2 billion in defense contracts.

And, for what its worth, the chart in the OP shows the closing price on Friday, not Thursday.

Your Reps and the SEC!

Trumpers I have the misfortune of talking to only care about their money in the stock market rising.

They knew.

A LOT of people knew.

And volume was huge.

The increases on Friday came after the killing of Soleimani was public knowledge.

The increase on Thursday (the first trading day of the year) were not out of line with the overall market increase along with the fact that it was the first trading day after Lockheed had announced it had been awarded over $2 billion in contracts.

General Atomics makes the Predator and Reaper drones. NG makes the world's only stealth heavy bomber, the B-2 Spirit.

Lockheed is the primary maker of Hellfire missiles but Boeing and Northrop Grumman also make some of them.

Trump's campaign has always promised death and destruction raining down from above while minimizing use of American ground troops. That means drones and aircraft and ships launching missiles. There won't be any unpopular draft for infantry soldiers. Just billions of our tax dollars raining down on defense contractors.

of course we must cut social programs to compensate. you know, to keep America safe.

The Dow Jones on Thursday was up 1.4 percent overall. Individual companies going up more than that obviously is to be expected. And in this instance, Thursday was the first trading day after its year end announcement that it had been awarded over $2 billion in contracts.

rose almost exactly the same amount.

People here are too quick to attribute some kind of manipulation in the stock market.

It wouldn't move that stock a single penny. It's just too massive.

The kind of buying this took, means that it was leaked to people with a MASSIVE amount of money. And quite a few of them.

There were numerous days when the LM stock increased by around the much or more during 2020 (a year in which the DOW increased by more than 22%). Indeed, there was a day during the year (in April) when the stock increased by over 5 percent and another (in July) when it increased by more than 3 percent. And the volume for the day, around 1.2 million shares was pretty much average for the year -- a year in which LM stock volume topped 2 million shares on multiple occasions, with a peak trading day with over 4 million shares of volume. (To put these numbers in perspective, LM ended the year with around 284 million shares outstanding. So less than one half of one percent of all LM shares were traded on Tuesday.

It requires ONE owner willing to sell and ONE buyer willing to buy any number of shares at the higher price.

It's not reality.

Yes go an buy a pink sheet stock with zero volume and you can move the price with next to nothing.


But a stock with a market cap on with 100+ billion and millions of trades per hour? A mom pop order isn't gonna budge it