[bobaloo]

Surprised I haven't seen this here, so here's a link:

Ticker Board

Basically, today someone just be $2 BILLION that the markets are going to go down by 30 percent in the next 3 weeks. People don't accumulate $2 billion by being wrong too often.

Put that together with the terror "drill" coming up in the PNW, the "suspicious passengers" being spread all over the papers here and the short selling of airlines just before 9/11 and I'm officially concerned.

Off to the feed store first thing in the morning, I still have a couple of empty barrels...

[jdumars]

After years of seemingly endless fretting and prognosticating, I realized the following...

You won't see it coming. And if you do, it won't be anything like you imagined.

[NEOPO]

Yes, it is not if but when and yes the elite have their finger on the button as it has always been.

[Plantagenet]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('bobaloo', 'S')urprised I haven't seen this here, so here's a link:

Ticker Board

Basically, today someone just be $2 BILLION that the markets are going to go down by 30 percent in the next 3 weeks. .

[AirlinePilot]

All its going to take is a big bank, mortgage house, or a huge hedge fund imploding to blast folks out into the clear instead of where they are right now. If that happens, and it appears it may shortly, than that is all its going to take for a rush to the door.

Right now I doubt you need any event other than that to cause this poorly propped up market to really go south.

I think it's just another tidbit of info showing how ugly things are getting in the banking world.

[Roccland]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Plantagenet', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('bobaloo', 'S')urprised I haven't seen this here, so here's a link:

Ticker Board

Basically, today someone just be $2 BILLION that the markets are going to go down by 30 percent in the next 3 weeks. .

[Roccland]

And here is what the owner of that site just posted this AM ...

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'Y')ep - they stuck.

Now - why?

Either they were coded wrong OR someone thinks the market is going to crash in the next month.

[seahorse2]

I'm not familiar with puts etc. Can someone please explain what exactly is going on?

Further, on the board linked, there was speculation there the initial trade was a mistaken short which the "shorter" tried to quickly resolve. Is this the case?

[Opies]

no, these look like they are sticking. This doesn't seem like a glitch as it has increased, and stuck. Everybody sees this so if it was a glitch it would have been fixed. Somebody is counting on something big

[TWilliam]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('seahorse2', 'I')'m not familiar with puts etc. Can someone please explain what exactly is going on?

[seldom_seen]

Did anyone read deep enough into the thread to figure out if someone sold 120,000 calls or bought up 120,000 calls?

If you click here, and look in the Volume column you can see what they are taking about:

http://finance.yahoo.com/q/op?s=SPY

[NEOPO]

Boy isnt that an interesting yet cryptic (to the untrained eye) thread?

Does anyone here have an educated opinion of exactly wtf is going on?

Me thinks the US=CHINA is simply BS and that if the Chin's wanted to they could indeed fall back behind their massive wall and do without wally world and all the rest and laugh, oh they would laugh and laugh and laugh and laugh

Seems there would be many other ways to crash the market if need be, many other way less obvious ways.

remember remember the 11th of september...

[phaeryen]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('NEOPO', 'B')oy isnt that an interesting yet cryptic (to the untrained eye) thread?

Does anyone here have an educated opinion of exactly wtf is going on?

Me thinks the US=CHINA is simply BS and that if the Chin's wanted to they could indeed fall back behind their massive wall and do without wally world and all the rest and laugh, oh they would laugh and laugh and laugh and laugh

Seems there would be many other ways to crash the market if need be, many other way less obvious ways.

remember remember the 11th of september...

[NEOPO]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('phaeryen', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('NEOPO', 'B')oy isnt that an interesting yet cryptic (to the untrained eye) thread?

Does anyone here have an educated opinion of exactly wtf is going on?

Me thinks the US=CHINA is simply BS and that if the Chin's wanted to they could indeed fall back behind their massive wall and do without wally world and all the rest and laugh, oh they would laugh and laugh and laugh and laugh

Seems there would be many other ways to crash the market if need be, many other way less obvious ways.

remember remember the 11th of september...

[Fredrik]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('NEOPO', 'M')e thinks the US=CHINA is simply BS and that if the Chin's wanted to they could indeed fall back behind their massive wall and do without wally world and all the rest and laugh, oh they would laugh and laugh and laugh and laugh

[Plantagenet]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Roccland', '.')..there are at least 6 pages of discussion behind that link.

[seldom_seen]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Plantagenet', 'I')s there any firm evidence of this purported trade other then these internet rumors posted on bulletin boards?

[Plantagenet]

Of course.

Thats my point. Where is the huge short that this topic is about?

Show me the 2 billion in short sales placed by one individual betting that the market will go down 30% in three weeks?

[seldom_seen]

You're right, in that there is no way do decipher the motive behind this trade by just looking at the numbers.

It was a significantly large option trade, involving over 700 million dollars.

[Roccland]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Plantagenet', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Roccland', '.')..there are at least 6 pages of discussion behind that link.