[BipolarBob]

the thing to do is to sell gold (presumably futures, but ETFs might do as well) looking for a $7-10 drop within an hour.

I would think the opposite might be true for an extended stock market outage or war or any other economic bad news. But I could be wrong.

[SAJ]

Bob -- The **market** wasn't quoteless; only the options. BIG difference from, for example, when NASDAQ went quoteless briefly a couple-three weeks ago.

Apples and oranges, m'FRiend. As noted in the original post, I think this sort of event-timing (putative) trade is an horrible idea, just awful, no matter whether stocks, options, or kumquat quotes go down.