Fishy futures trading? Author of bombshell Vanity Fair report dives in

Vanity Fair reporter William Cohan on whether something fishy is behind trades made ahead of Trump's market-moving comments. With CNBC's Melissa Lee and the Fast Money traders, Tim Seymour, Chris Verrone, Dan Nathan and Guy Adami.

[rahulchahal]

I have seen that without looking at options. Anytime S&P moves huge without any news my first thought is if a tweet is coming

[rafaelmariscal]

Well, it looks like someone WILL be a billionaire when he leaves the office.

[kilgoringtroutless]

Melissa, he said his information came from the traders on the floor who trade this everyday saying this is unusual activity, how hard is that to understand.

[WorldReserveCurrency]

My friend was hypothesizing the same thing.... this guy just solidified this scenario in my mind.

[D_Trade]

I've been saying this for a while!

[kieronmckay]

The probability that these sorts of trades were random walk guesses in the night is next to zero. Although the chance that these are all the same person or entity is unlikely, but absolutely SHOULD be investigated by all the financial regulators ASAP. If it is insider trading it needs to be enforced, particularly if it's someone in this administration without question. And given the quality of the officials in this administration, to do anything but look into these rigorously would be a total failure of lawful society.

[tinmanslickgreasy]

Jesus!! Everybody knows there is a mass amount of inside trading happening right now. It's right in front us and those guys sitting at the table know this as well! Finally the one guy said I dont why there is soo much push back on the idea that there is insider trading!!!

[geraldg]

investigating traders for insider trading is like investigating fish for swimming.

[Hopeful-passenger]

So as long as the market goes up, everything is fine.

[august]

Are the cnbc hosts dumb or are they just pretending to be dumb? He's simply sharing information about unusual activity that he thinks to SEC should look into.

[reydmondreddington]

He is right! I got the same conclusion! And I was wondering why nobody is talking about this?
I want point out that’s everything stared with (USA & México trade war).

[jeffgreen]

This is BS. This guy doesn't know if/when the trades were closed, yet he claims to know how much money was made by the "insider". lol

[fredocorleone]

Trump should never ever disclose/release his IRS tax forms.

[samanthasanchez]

some one knows something we don't

[youcanthandlethetruth]

How else do you think the banks are making record profits and pensions are going bust?

[krops]

That's called gambling. Now report on the losses.

[cheya]

Trump tweets to calm the market after a big loss. It's not a coincidence on these bad days the plunge protection team also intervene just before the market closes. Every time the Dow is down 300 points, it recovers the most at market close.

[mitch]

finally, some real questions and debate on this show! so tired of listening to the prompter. this guy made a wonderful report of his sources but over-reported by adding too many assumptions.

[chrls]

Yeah but how many traders made these option trades. If it's thousands upon thousands then it's probably just speculation. But if it's a small group of traders then he may be onto something. Saying thousands of traders are either putting calls or calls against the s&p is hardly even a story.

[SICKFREDO]

something tells me these anchors know more hence why they are giving so much pushback to this guy.