PROMIS, Echelon, CBOE and NYSE pre-9/11 show LIHOP

[scottxyz]

There was lots of giant blips in the world financial markets pre-9/11... and this is the kind of stuff intelligence agencies monitor in real-time. So it's more proof of LIHOP.

- A jump in UAL put options 90 times (not 90 percent) above normal between Sept. 6 and Sept. 10, and 285 times higher than average on the Thursday before the attack. {CBS News, Sept. 26}

- A jump in American Airlines put options 60 times (not 60 percent) above normal on the day before the attacks. {CBS News, Sept. 26}

- No similar trading occurred on any other airlines. {Bloomberg Business Report, the Institute for Counterterrorism (ICT), Herzliyya, Israel citing data from the CBOE}

- Morgan Stanley saw, between Sept. 7 and Sept.10, an increase of 27 times (not 27 percent) in the purchase of put options on its shares. {ICT Report, "Mechanics of Possible Bin-Laden Insider Trading Scam," Sept. 21, citing data from the CBOE}.

- Merrill-Lynch saw a jump of more than 12 times the normal level of put options in the four trading days before the attacks. {Ibid}

"I saw put-call numbers higher than I've ever seen in 10 years of following the markets, particularly the options markets," said John Kinnucan, principal of Broadband Research, as quoted in the San Francisco Chronicle...


From Mike Ruppert at FromTheWilderness. Worth reading in full:

http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/040804_condi_rice.html