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


To: Bonnie Bear who wrote (7743)10/27/1997 2:51:00 PM
From: Mark Adams  Respond to of 94695
 
Well, the halt gives the options exchanges a chance to catch up on order confirmations :)



To: Bonnie Bear who wrote (7743)10/27/1997 2:53:00 PM
From: Mark Adams  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 94695
 
Is anyone ready to step in front of this train and go long, or have we reached the point where both bulls and bears fear to tread?

(The silence envelopes the trading floor as trading is halted, you could hear a pin drop. Shell shocked traders are too numb to calculate their positions, glancing at the clock to see how much longer until they can collapse on the sofa, screwdriver in hand

This could make for some great war stories)



To: Bonnie Bear who wrote (7743)10/27/1997 2:54:00 PM
From: Simon  Respond to of 94695
 
"" This is scary."" NYSE closed for 1/2 hour. As they say in White Russia "NO S***ksy. Kind of like "China Syndrome".