To make the trade? Not actually that long. Planning and evaluating take longer, but he’s inevitably not the one pushing the buttons or making the plan, which is also not something that needs to be done for each one.
It takes me longer to move money between my checking and savings accounts.
The concerning thing isn’t the time investment, it’s the active nature of financial involvement in a situation where there’s a major conflict of interest.
Stock trading isn’t automatically problematic for an elected official, but it’s very easy to produce the appearance or actuality of improper conduct.
The safest route is to turn control over to a third party who doesn’t know who they’re managing.
That would be about a day traders worth of time… probably 4-5+ hours/day depending on variable factors. It’s definitely an aggressive trading strategy and not something I can see a “super busy president who looks out for his people” able to accomplish normally.
So, serious question.
How much time would it take to do about 60 trades a day?
To make the trade? Not actually that long. Planning and evaluating take longer, but he’s inevitably not the one pushing the buttons or making the plan, which is also not something that needs to be done for each one.
It takes me longer to move money between my checking and savings accounts.
The concerning thing isn’t the time investment, it’s the active nature of financial involvement in a situation where there’s a major conflict of interest.
Stock trading isn’t automatically problematic for an elected official, but it’s very easy to produce the appearance or actuality of improper conduct.
The safest route is to turn control over to a third party who doesn’t know who they’re managing.
Trump himself isn’t doing the trading.
That would be about a day traders worth of time… probably 4-5+ hours/day depending on variable factors. It’s definitely an aggressive trading strategy and not something I can see a “super busy president who looks out for his people” able to accomplish normally.