[John W]

“Yes, there was some abnormal activity in airline shares’ puts prior to 11 September 2001. Curiously, afaik, SEC have never nailed anyone for it. (shrug).

This particular bit of scaremongering is nonsense on its face. See post #40.”

I took the post for what its worth. Howvever, if what you say is true about the last time, it deserves more than a shrug. Or, would we rather not know?

[SAJ]

This article, especially, is a very lame attempt at scaremongering. Trying to extrapolate the occurrence of a disaster from unusual activity in ONE strike in an otherwise huge market is simply asinine.

Nothing on McMillan's options volume watch list suggests a replay of 9/11 just now. More likely, I think, that there'll be a little foofaraw by the diaperheads in front of General Petraeus' upcoming report on the 15th.