--- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], anony_sleuth_ff <no_reply@> > wrote: > > > > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote: > > > > > > --- In [email protected], anony_sleuth_ff <no_reply@> > > > wrote: > > > > > <snip> > > > > Which is crap. millions of investors keep their windfalls in > > > > their accounts for decades. > > > > > > I very seriously doubt anybody keeps $2.5 million > > > just sitting, uninvested, in their account. > > > > Well you are quite the non-worldy fool then. > > Ah, and your evidence that lots of people keep as > much as $2.5 million in their accounts for decades? > (Putting it back into stocks to reap more profits > would be "non-worldly"??) > > > > But in any case, it appears to me as though the source > > > is talking about those who profit illegally from > > > insider info--"Take the money and run" before anybody > > > notices. > > > > Lynne Howard, a spokeswoman for the Chicago Board Options Exchange > > (CBOE), stated that information about who made the trades was > > available immediately. "We would have been aware of any unusual > > activity right away. It would have been triggered by any unusual > > volume. There is an automated system called 'blue sheeting,' or the > > CBOE Market Surveillance System, that everyone in the business knows > > about. It provides information on the trades - the name and even the > > Social Security number on an account - and these surveillance > systems > > are set up specifically to look into insider trading. The system > would > > look at the volume, and then a real person would take over and > review > > it, going back in time and looking at other unusual activity." > > > > http://tbrnews.org/Archives/a048.htm > > Just for the record, TBR News is an anti-Semitic, > neo-Nazi-type site. This particular quote (which > was lifted, I believe, from the article I linked > to in the Sierra Times), is neutral in that regard, > but you may have noticed that the TBR article itself > claims the suspicious trades were made by Israelis.
OH MY! Then you are right. They must be NAZIs!! Anyone that criticises an israeli or israel must be a full fledged NAZI. > > > And its quite hard to do so anonomously. Next to impossible. > > According to the article at CNN.com: > > One problem is that some of the more complex market transactions, > like short-selling of shares, are not directly visible to regulators. Short-selling is as visable as long positions. The talking heads at CNN and FOX and other stations,reading the teleprompter that some staffer or analyst pasted together 2 minutes earlier, is not always deep truth. > But that doesn't mean there isn't a trail. Even shell companies can > be pried apart. So they are visible. And who said the 2.5mil transaction was a shell company. All reports are that it was an individual. > "Normally, shell companies, special banks, jurisdictional problems > are all set up to make a paper trail more difficult for regulators to > follow. The nature of this atrocity, however, is such that there are > signs that people who don't usually cooperate will cooperate this > time," says Jeffrey Robinson, author of "The Laundrymen." HUH > > <snip> > > > Did somebody say investigators could not trace > > > the owner of the account? Or did you make that up? > > > > "The source and others in the financial industry speculate that the > > purchaser or purchasers -- having initially assumed the money could > > be picked up without detection -- now fear exposure" > > [Judy's post] > > > > I realize one has to use a modest amount of brain power here. Sorry > > its over your head. Let me spell it out for you,step by step. > > > > 1) The unnamed sources speculated that the investors, by, > > withdrawing the money would reveal their idnetities. > > > > 2) This is a silly argument in that the account owners in the US are > > easily traced. See CBOT above > > > > 3) The implied assumption of the unnamed sources was that #2 was not > > true ---investigators could not trace > > the owner of the account. > > > > OK. Clear now? > > Even *if* the accounts were easily traced (which the > CNN article appears to contradict), CNN was not talking about this specific account. And they are simply wrong about short selling being less visable. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com/lMct6A/Vp3LAA/i1hLAA/UlWolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> 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/
