Hi, P, X, Rambi, E, Karen et al ...
Sigh. I hope everyone feels a little better today, anyway.
This is a wonderful place, X. You're very kind to post such soothing thoughts i.e. 'tolerance,' etc.
I would like to add to your knowledgable post, here, Poet about shorting ... echoing your comment about commercial vs retail shorting activity ... I see here on SI very few retail investors who short or even trade put options. The vast majority of people here trade equities exclusively. Do you see that as well in your experience here and all of the threads with which you are familiar?
I feel that this unfamiliarity/unwillingness with shorting and put options has tragically cost millions of people, however, their life savings, basically. I personally know four who lost more than $1 million each buying all the way down from NAZ 5000 'on the dips,' etc. Keeping the faith and hope alive putting their life savings on the line. Having faith in the fundamentals of the companies in which they invested. To see the stock values of these 'quality companies' fall 50-60-80 and even 90%.
Sigh.
Rambi: I blame the CIA. (don't laugh -- or go ahead and laugh, if you want to -g-) Certainly not the airlines. The airline communities are victims here in yet another terrible perspective.
What I see is the gaping hole that somehow made it possible for known middle eastern terrorists to not only reside in the U.S, but acquire flight training from privately-run schools for months on end. How is this possible? How much money is spent to support the CIA -- anybody know?
Another mystery to me is the air traffic control system. I haven't seen anything about what if anything the various air traffic control towers saw/action taken when each of these four planes veered dramatically off scheduled flight patterns. With such sophisticated state-of-the-art electronics surveillance/radar AND communcations I wonder if any sort of 'automtic' alert from air traffic to, like the FBI or Air Force is transmitted ... that sort of thing.
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