[9/11] Let's focus on two things

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Op zondag 24 april 2005 03:50 schreef Knarf het volgende:
"Pull it" is toch een term van: laat maar branden, doe maar niets meer.
Niet van: blaas het op.

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Op zondag 24 april 2005 03:00
[B]1. Wie heeft de put opties op American Airlines en United Airlines gekocht vlak voor het 9/11 WTC incident?

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Op zondag 24 april 2005 05:39 schreef COLAIUTA het volgende:
Volgens mij heeft Mike Ruppert de eerste vraag al beantwoord: de directeur van IBCC zat in het web der insiders. Hij heeft 2 dagen na 9/11 ontslag genomen.
De winst van de put-opties is nimmer geclaimd.

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Op zondag 24 april 2005 06:46 schreef Wombcat het volgende:

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Idd.
Weliswaat is het ook vakjargon voor opblazen, maar als de brandweer het gebruikt, betekent het laat maar branden (en in dit geval was het de brandweer die het gebruikte).

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Op zondag 24 april 2005 06:26 schreef NorthernStar het volgende:
Moeilijk hé? Ontopic blijven.

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Op zondag 24 april 2005 06:30 schreef NorthernStar het volgende:

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Heb je daar ook linkjes naar artikelen oid van?

Want in het 9/11 report staat er niks over. Ergo, het is niet onderzocht.

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Op zondag 24 april 2005 09:40 schreef Hallulama het volgende:
SeLang, dan nog rest de vraag:

1. Men zegt dat de identiteit van de persoon die de put opties kocht niet te achterhalen is, terwijl het volgens de schrijver onmogelijk is om anoniem put opties te kopen, hoe kan dit?

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2. Waarom heeft de persoon z'n winst nooit opgeëist als alles in orde was?

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Weet iemand overigens over hoeveel winst we hier eigenlijk spreken?

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"Selling Short" is the borrowing of stock, selling it at current market prices, but not being required to actually produce the stock for some time. If the stock falls precipitously after the short contract is entered, the seller can then fulfill the contract by buying the stock after the price has fallen and complete the contract at the pre-crash price. These contracts often have a window of as long as four months.

"Put Options," are contracts giving the buyer the option to sell stocks at a later date. Purchased at nominal prices of, for example, $1.00 per share, they are sold in blocks of 100 shares. If exercised, they give the holder the option of selling selected stocks at a future date at a price set when the contract is issued. Thus, for an investment of $10,000 it might be possible to tie up 10,000 shares of United or American Airlines at $100 per share, and the seller of the option is then obligated to buy them if the option is executed. If the stock has fallen to $50 when the contract matures, the holder of the option can purchase the shares for $50 and immediately sell them for $100 - regardless of where the market then stands. A call option is the reverse of a put option, which is, in effect, a derivatives bet that the stock price will go up.

A September 21 story by the Israeli Herzliyya International Policy Institute for Counterterrorism, entitled "Black Tuesday: The World's Largest Insider Trading Scam?" documented the following trades connected to the September 11 attacks:

- Between September 6 and 7, the Chicago Board Options Exchange saw purchases of 4,744 put options on United Airlines, but only 396 call options. Assuming that 4,000 of the options were bought by people with advance knowledge of the imminent attacks, these "insiders" would have profited by almost $5 million.

- On September 10, 4,516 put options on American Airlines were bought on the Chicago exchange, compared to only 748 calls. Again, there was no news at that point to justify this imbalance; Again, assuming that 4,000 of these options trades represent "insiders," they would represent a gain of about $4 million.

- [The levels of put options purchased above were more than six times higher than normal.]

- No similar trading in other airlines occurred on the Chicago exchange in the days immediately preceding Black Tuesday.

- Morgan Stanley Dean Witter & Co., which occupied 22 floors of the World Trade Center, saw 2,157 of its October $45 put options bought in the three trading days before Black Tuesday; this compares to an average of 27 contracts per day before September 6. Morgan Stanley's share price fell from $48.90 to $42.50 in the aftermath of the attacks. Assuming that 2,000 of these options contracts were bought based upon knowledge of the approaching attacks, their purchasers could have profited by at least $1.2 million.

- Merrill Lynch & Co., with headquarters near the Twin Towers, saw 12,215 October $45 put options bought in the four trading days before the attacks; the previous average volume in those shares had been 252 contracts per day [a 1200% increase!]. When trading resumed, Merrill's shares fell from $46.88 to $41.50; assuming that 11,000 option contracts were bought by "insiders," their profit would have been about $5.5 million.

- European regulators are examining trades in Germany's Munich Re, Switzerland's Swiss Re, and AXA of France, all major reinsurers with exposure to the Black Tuesday disaster. [FTW Note: AXA also owns more than 25% of American Airlines stock making the attacks a "double whammy" for them.]

On September 29, 2001 - in a vital story that has gone unnoticed by the major media - the San Francisco Chronicle reported, "Investors have yet to collect more than $2.5 million in profits they made trading options in the stock of United Airlines before the Sept. 11, terrorist attacks, according to a source familiar with the trades and market data.

"The uncollected money raises suspicions that the investors - whose identities and nationalities have not been made public - had advance knowledge of the strikes." They don't dare show up now. The suspension of trading for four days after the attacks made it impossible to cash-out quickly and claim the prize before investigators started looking.

"October series options for UAL Corp. were purchased in highly unusual volumes three trading days before the terrorist attacks for a total outlay of $2,070; investors bought the option contracts, each representing 100 shares, for 90 cents each. [This represents 230,000 shares]. Those options are now selling at more than $12 each. There are still 2,313 so-called "put" options outstanding [valued at $2.77 million and representing 231,300 shares] according to the Options Clearinghouse Corp."

"The source familiar with the United trades identified Deutsche Bank Alex Brown, the American investment banking arm of German giant Deutsche Bank, as the investment bank used to purchase at least some of these options." This was the operation managed by Krongard until as recently as 1998.

As reported in other news stories, Deutsche Bank was also the hub of insider trading activity connected to Munich Re. just before the attacks.

Bron: http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/10_09_01_krongard.html

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Op zondag 24 april 2005 13:35 schreef OpenYourMind het volgende:
Tja ik zou zeggen zoek het op inplaats van steeds algemene stellingen te doen over het verloop van put-opties en proberen zonder de stelling uit te zoeken steeds alles te nuanceren.
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