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As a former stock trader, this occurred to me a few days ago. Very logical, if you think it through. You endeavor to crush our country and the market at the same time.

While I have not participated in the markets for a while, over the past week or two they seemed 'heavy', like someone was 'leaning' on then. [Kind of like the Hunts and the silver market in reverse.] I had even printed charts on Monday, to look at later. It was eerie when I found them again on Wed morning.

Good post. Glad someone is looking at this. Could well be a smoking gun.

Yes, the markets have been trading poorly for quite a while.

I'm sure all the S&P futures sell tickets are going to made to stand up and speak!

i've said from the start (not on FR, but to friends) that round 2 is an attack on our financial markets. there is no telling how long conspirators have been accumulating short positions, i would like to see all short sales prior to september 11th frozen at market close pps on the 10th. i think we need to give investigators enough time to sort out the details. those short-sellers who are cleared after investigation, could reap their rewards at a later date and consider themselves lucky.

in addition, declare a temporary moratorium on future short-selling... it can be done:

"regulatory authorities could prohibit short selling, says Barry Hyman, chief investment strategist at Ehrenkrantz King Nussbaum, who remembers when the American Stock Exchange banned shorting shares of the formerly public Home Shopping Network."