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President Trump’s Stock Broker Was the Busiest Person in America in Q1
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President Trump’s Stock Broker Was the Busiest Person in America in Q1

Yahoo Finance · May 15, 2026, 2:45 PM · Also reported by 1 other source

Key takeaways

  • Sales were predominantly small lots ($1K-$100K range) across hundreds of positions for a total portfolio turnover estimated at $220M-$730M across 3,642 transactions in 63 trading days.
  • The analyst who called NVIDIA in 2010 just named his top 10 AI stocks.
  • Markets don t move in a straight line -- and neither do the people running the country.

President Trump’s Stock Broker Was the Busiest Person in America in Q1 Rich Duprey Fri, May 15, 2026 at 9:45 PM GMT+7 5 min read NVDA MSFT AAPL AMZN AVGO Quick Read Nvidia (NVDA), Microsoft (MSFT), Apple (AAPL), Amazon (AMZN), and Broadcom (AVGO) each received $1M+ conviction purchases during Q1’s market selloff, with Microsoft and Amazon buys reaching $2.4M-$8.1M and $2.5M-$8.3M respectively. Sales were predominantly small lots ($1K-$100K range) across hundreds of positions for a total portfolio turnover estimated at $220M-$730M across 3,642 transactions in 63 trading days.

President Trump executed 3,642 securities trades (58 per trading day) in Q1 2026 while retaining direct portfolio control rather than using a blind trust, an arrangement unprecedented in modern presidential history that creates potential conflicts between policy decisions and personal investment gains.

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