{"id":1568,"date":"2026-04-22T18:45:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T18:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.janrohlander.info\/?p=1568"},"modified":"2026-04-24T10:45:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T10:45:13","slug":"traders-place-430-million-bet-on-lower-oil-price-before-trump-ceasefire-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.janrohlander.info\/index.php\/2026\/04\/22\/traders-place-430-million-bet-on-lower-oil-price-before-trump-ceasefire-extension\/","title":{"rendered":"Traders place $430 million bet on lower oil price before Trump ceasefire extension"},"content":{"rendered":"

It is the third time this month, and the fourth in total, that large, well-timed directional bets on the oil price have been made shortly before major announcements on the Iran war. One combined wager in March was worth $500 million, while April’s bets have together totalled some $2.1 billion. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It is the third time this month, and the fourth in total, that large, well-timed directional bets on the oil price have been made shortly before major announcements on the Iran war. One combined wager in March was worth $500 million, while April’s bets have together totalled some $2.1 billion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.janrohlander.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1568"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.janrohlander.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.janrohlander.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.janrohlander.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.janrohlander.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1568"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.janrohlander.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1569,"href":"http:\/\/www.janrohlander.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1568\/revisions\/1569"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.janrohlander.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.janrohlander.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.janrohlander.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.janrohlander.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}