(NewsNation) — An internet personality who runs Pelosi Tracker says it’s “suspicious” how oil trades and bets were made around significant points in the war against Iran.

“I don’t know if it’s buying the bottom perfectly, selling the top perfectly,” Autopilot founder Chris Josephs told “Katie Pavlich Tonight” on Monday. “I think if you do it four times in a row, it becomes a little bit suspicious, where it’s like, ‘OK, fool me once, shame on me. Fool me twice, shame on you.’ I think every single time it also kind of goes with the flow of it.”

The Justice Department has ramped up its investigation into the oil trades and bets that were possibly made with insider information since the conflict began in March.

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The trades and bets that were spotted included:-In late March, just minutes before President Trump announced he would be delaying attacks on Iranian power infrastructure-Before Trump announced the initial ceasefire with Iran-Before it came out that Trump and Iranian officials were discussing reopening the Strait of Hormuz-When Trump extended the ceasefire with Iran

Each of those moves had a major impact on oil prices, but Josephs feels whoever is behind the trades will be harder to track down.

“So these sorts of trades, they aren’t as public as the stuff that we see from the politicians,” he said.

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“These might be people, private institutions, hedge funds, people in that nature that I think would be making these trades, but I don’t know where they would get the information. I don’t know how they necessarily would do it.”

Josephs applauds the direction of the DOJ’s investigation; but still thinks other challenges are coming.

“I don’t know necessarily how these sorts of large block trades, and specifically around oil, can be investigated by the DOJ because it’s all just done on kind of like a private black market, for lack of a better way to describe it,” Josephs said. “It’s not like they’re going and buying Exxon stock, which they have. But buying the individual stocks is an easier way to track it.”

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