If someone risks a billion dollars that the stock market will crash what does that mean to you ?

Question

Someone or some ones have risked a billion dollars that the stock market will lose between 30 and 50 % of it's value on or before the 21 st day of Sept.

What does that mean to you ?

News & Analysis: Options/Futures
Dispelling the 'Bin Laden' Options Trades
By Steven Smith and Aaron L. Task
Staff Reporters
8/30/2007 3:23 PM EDT
Updated from 7:07 a.m.
Options House
Global Forex
Charles Schwab
Fidelity Investments
TD AMERITRADE
Zecco.com
As if the mortgage-market meltdown wasn't enough to spook investors, some market players expressed concerns about unusual options bets that some observers have dubbed "Bin Laden Trades."
The blogosphere and options trading desks have been rife with speculation about these trades, which are unusually large bets that the market will make a huge move in the next month. Some entity, or entities, has taken a large position on extremely deep in the money S&P 500 options, both puts and calls, that won't pay off unless the market undergoes an extremely large price move between now and the options' expiration on Sept. 21.
http://www.thestreet.com/newsanalysis/optionsfutures/10377063.html

Sarah

Just paper like that picture of Queen Elizabeth I carry ?

Or just paper like that picture of Washington you carry ?

Answer 1

Who? Should be public information, do you have a link?

Edit: Thanks read your link, it's a put/call, so it's an up down bet. If the market moves either way they prosper. Traditionally the market looses somewhere in the neighborhood of 11% in Sept. Someone is just playing the odds.

Answer 2

Depends on who that someone is. Although I've stated quite often that this market is due a recession by the end of the year. The power brokers are slowly moving their money and their clients money into securities while the laymen just sits on their hands waiting for a sign. As though the Feds $30 billion bailout isn't a sign that anyone should be able to read.

Answer 3

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An option has only two outcomes (hence the name “binary” options). This is because the value of an asset can only go up or down during a given time frame. Your task will be to predict if the value of an asset with either go up or down during a certain amount of time.

Answer 4

Source?

If it's true, somebody had some SERIOUS inside info.

Answer 5

It means nothing; it's just paper.

Answer 6

I not surprised look who is running our country and what he has done to our country......