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Massive Put Options Bought on the S&P 500 Index Indicating Another 2011 Stock Market Crash 9/30/2011 on the another video. Contracts on the 1150 S&P 500 Index Put Option for Oct where at $36 when they bought, now they're up to $17.75+ on the ask and SMF took a profit on these at $52.50.. "Is Wall Street Gambling" You're Money" "Smart Money" Massive Put "Options Trading Activity" the Put Options Purchased on the S&P 500 Index indicating another Stock Market Crash 2011? Charts Options Trading SPX Strategies Live 1150 OCT Put Option Huge Trade Related ETFs SSO, SDS, SPXU & SPY 1120 33,000 options contracts traded. Big block options purchased total purchase $177,375,000. These guys are expecting a huge drop in the S&P 500 Index. Big boys and institutional traders making huge bearish bets. Wide bid and ask spreads. Big volume moving in, these options are not cheap. $5,3750 per contract and we're seeing large institutional options purchases. Many stock market pundits are calling for a "Stock Market Crash" including "Gerald Celente" "Nouriel Roubini" and other notable trends forecasters. Now we're seeing bigger traders come back after the worst September for the Dow Jones Industrial Average. As many are predicting an "economic collapse" in 2012 it is an election year and "Wall Street" always has a way of putting these stock market sell offs off till it's convenient for them to first walk off the short-interest before taking the market markets lower.

At StockMarketFunding.com we've featured and highlighted how "High Frequency Trading" has forever changed the stock market. Ever since the Flash Crash the options markets have never been the same and we highlighted that throughout 2010 and 2011. Now we're seeing the dawn of a new and crude enemy that has existed, just in different forms. The "Fake News" story that makes a stock move up or down 3% to 15% in a matter of minutes. Of course in most cases there are no sources and news media insiders are paid or told of a "hot rumor" or "possible development" only to drive a stock price higher or lower. In this breaking story by ZeroHedge we can see the magnitude that "big business" has gone into to manipulte markets both international and domestic. It appears that while we were busy over the past month spreading the Greek pre- and post-bankruptcy balance sheet, and otherwise torturing Excel (something we urge other financial journalists to try once in a while - go ahead, it doesn't bite. In fact, it is almost as friendly as your favorite Powerpoint) our peer at such reputable financial publications as Forbes, and many others, were laying of carbon-based reporters and replacing them with... robots.  As Mediabistro reports, "Forbes has joined a group of 30 publishers using Narrative Science software to write computer-generated stories. Here's more about the program, used in one corner of Forbes' website: ""Narrative Science has developed a technology solution that creates rich narrative content from data. Narratives are seamlessly created from structured data sources and can be fully customized to fit a customer's voice, style and tone. Stories are created in multiple formats, including long form stories, headlines, Tweets and industry reports with graphical visualizations.""  In other words, with well over 70% of stock trading now done by robots, we have gotten to a point where robots write headlines and stories read, reacted to and traded

High-frequency Trader Turned Whistleblower Sparks a Big Congressional Investigation (VIDEO). In this "high frequency trading" video we'll cover today's big news about the "high frequency trading systems". The exchanges are well aware of the problem because they created this high-frequency trading exchange model. At StockMarketFunding.com we've been educating the public about "high frequency trading" since our viral coverage of the 2010 Flash Crash. According to the insider, the HFT Trading System have created an "Unbeatable System" and the NYSE and Nasdaq exchanges were not available for comment. SMF has explained how these HFT Traders use extremely shady tactics to "front run" orders and "quote jam" and other things the public are not aware of in the exchange model.