--- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > And I think there is *some*. The most glaring evidence > that something funny was going on is what happened on > the stock market in the days before the attack. I > haven't seen anybody even attempt to make a case that > that was benign.
>From the Loose Change video, their argument was that trading in Boeing options volume was 2x,3x and 5x or something some days or weeks prior to 9/11. In itself, that means nothing. Stock or option volume can vary widely -- on any number of factors -- including quite mundane and benign ones. Look to the Force Luke (and Judy) -- aka the statistics 101 class you took years ago. How many standard deviations from the mean was the event(s)? The above numbers could have been 1 SD -- quite frequent, or a six-sigma event --- very, very rare. Present the statistics (Yahoo Finance may have), then make a case. For fun I might look up the data and see. I bet it was an event happening once every 3-12 months, or 1-4 times a year or more. And why focus only on Boeing? If the market as a whole dumped after 9/11 (after market reopenened in 3-4 days, as I recall. Why not just short the S&P 500 or buy puts options on the S&P 500. That would be much harder to see and trace anomolies due to volume. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
