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Strategies & Market Trends : Waiting for the big Kahuna -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (81771)	10/10/2008 6:49:14 PM
From: Real Man	Respond to of 94695

Ripe for a crash if nothing is done, as silly as it sounds.

To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (81771)	10/10/2008 6:52:27 PM
From: Real Man	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 94695

Ripe for an expiration crash if nothing is done, as silly as it sounds. The last two expirations the PPT resorted to banning shorting and stuff to prevent a crash. Evidently, they were very scared to leave the market alone. At this VIX the market may have passed the point of no return, since options values increased 10-fold. When things are too far out of whack, options tend to accelerate the move. 1987, but a much, much larger "portfolio insurance" market. Hopefully not, but it's one scary possibility. Given how large the options market is, things can overshoot 0 then. <G>