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According to the fund's disclosed voting intentions, the fund abstained/withheld its vote on Elkann's reappointment, citing concerns that he does not have sufficient time and energy to devote to Meta's affairs. Elkann simultaneously serves as Chairman of European automotive giant Stellantis NV and as CEO of investment giant Exor NV. The fund unusually voted in favor of five out of ten shareholder proposals, including one requesting Meta to conduct and publish a data protection impact assessment report regarding its collection of user data from interactions with generative artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots for personalized advertising purposes.

Overall, these exchanges represent an unprecedented round of stock market operations carried out by a sitting U.S. president, attracting strong interest from short-term traders and prompting critics to raise suspicions of insider trading. However, assessments of these transactions and interviews with investment experts show that the trading methods are highly complex and diverse, making it difficult to reach any definitive conclusions. The operations involve multiple overlapping portfolio management strategies, are often based on indexes, and a significant portion may be automatically executed—making them hard to fully dissect. To a large extent, this aligns with the Trump Group's public explanation: the group states that Trump's holdings are independently managed by third-party financial institutions, which have full authority over all investment decisions, including asset allocation, trading, rebalancing, and portfolio management. The transactions are executed through "automated, model-driven portfolios and direct indexing strategies," with neither Trump, his family, nor his company involved.

Data shows that over the past 24 hours, a total of $811 million was liquidated across the entire network, with $683 million in long positions and $127 million in short positions, primarily affecting long positions. Among these, $229 million in ETH and $326 million in BTC were liquidated.