Trader Beats the System and Gets to Dinner with Trump by Spending Only $1,200
Date: 2025-05-15 Author: Gabriel Deangelo Categories: BUSINESS
Trader Morten Christensen and four friends managed to get to a closed gala dinner with the current US President Donald Trump by spending only about $1,200. Although initially, to get into the top 220 TRUMP token holders, it was necessary to have assets in the portfolio worth about $54,500, the team found a way to minimize expenses. This was reported by Bloomberg.
To bypass the rule, the participants of the strategy bought TRUMP, and then opened short positions for an equivalent amount. In this way, they only paid commissions for transactions, holding the required volume of tokens until the final guest list was announced. As soon as the participants were on the list, the assets were sold and the positions were closed.
Christensen said that the idea of participation arose spontaneously. At first, he did not take the contest seriously, believing that the competition was too high. However, eight days before the end of the campaign, he looked at the rating and realized that it was quite possible to become one of the winners.
The trader first invested in TRUMP back in January, just an hour after its launch. Then he quickly resold the tokens with a profit of 30 times. Later, when the dinner program was announced, he decided to try his hand.
The team developed its own software that analyzes the portfolios of other participants and calculates how much TRUMP is needed to get to the top. Thanks to this, they could quickly adjust their positions.
When larger investors entered the game, traders decided to increase the share of tokens to maintain a place in the list. In the final, Christensen had about $250,000 in TRUMP, which ensured him 188th place in the rating under the nickname Aird.
After the results were published, the winner received confirmation of participation, passed all the checks and has already purchased airline tickets.
Meanwhile, amid increased scrutiny of Donald Trump's crypto connections, Senator Richard Blumenthal has launched an investigation demanding disclosure of the ownership structure and financial flows associated with the president's crypto projects.
