[AmericaUnited]

A lot of these trades have been found to have no basis. Take the American Airlines puts for example. I believe on the Friday before 9-11, American annouced poor earnings or an expectation of such, so of course people would be heavy buyers of puts on the following Monday, 9-10.

[ex-Texan]

The Feds know who profited with secret knowldge of 9/11 .... those brokerage accounts should have been frozen immediately. But the Feds are silent .... not one word.

Osama bin Laden was bragging he would make a huge killing in the market. Rumors have been floating about Russkies pocketing billions in put profits. Wanna bet our 'Middle Eastern friends' the Saudis made hundreds of billions in illegal profits? How about big money Clintonite cronies? How about accounts held by wealthy Chinese, and front corporations owned by the Peoples Liberation Army?

[NativeNewYorker]

The big rumored play was a multi-billion dollar purchase of US treasuries right before the attack.

In the subsequent flight-to-safety, those securities soared.

[Tasha]

I remember the days before September 11th. You see, it was very unusual for anybody with any understanding of trading to buy puts on the bottom of the trading range. The United States Treasury bond (TYX.X) was already reversing. There was no news, or events which could stop the bond from buying over sold stocks, which in that case would make them go up.
The bond people do not care, they just buy, as long as they reach their desired effect. The amount of money which can come out of a reversing bond is incredible. That way, I do not believe that anybody who is normal, and knows anything about trading, would be buying puts (with short expiration dates) on the bottom of the trading range. They would buy them on the top; they might not sell it, but for anybody who trades, it would be suicidal to buy puts on the bottom of a trading range.
I really do have big doubts that that kind of buying in Boeing and other airline stocks was just coincidental. Since those jerks killed our own people, I hope that the Federal government will take a good look at what was the motivation, and the connection. I am not asking for revenge, I'm asking for justice. Those jerks killed lots of decent and innocent people. Some of them were traders. No one should make profit out of the blood of innocent traders and people.

[1Old Pro]

The SEC is still trying to unravel the Hitlery futures scheme....aren't they?

For possibly the most regulated industry with the most paper trails they sure have a difficult time investigating crimes involving securities trading.

[michaelje]

Ive been following this for months. Notice how the media has remained silent on any follow up stories ? Any thoughts as to why ?

[KC Burke]

I would appreciate your insight on this one.