Stocks go up, and stocks go down - but contrary to popular belief of the mysterious and confusing stock market, investors can profit when stocks go down too. As I learned in An American Hedge Fund, investors can buy special options called "put" options, prior to a stock's collapse, and then profit when the stock plummets.

Put options basically work the same way as regular stock options, just in reverse. Really I can't explain stocks any better than Timothy Sykes does in "An American Hedge Fund," and he really makes it exceptionally easy and fun for anyone to understand the stock market - and I highly recommend that knowledge.

The "whether" (or not) forecast

Why should you understand the stock market? Because a mysterious trader has purchased a grossly large amount of put options on the Dow Jones Eurostoxx 50 index. He's betting about $1 billion on another major market collapse just like 9/11 - because that is the only way someone could profit from such an investment. Such a trend was seen just before 9/11 with two major airlines.



Although those stock purchases were also anonymous, they were traced back to Deutsche Bank, which was headed by Buzzy Krongard at the time. In March 2001, Buzzy was appointed Executive Director of the CIA, by the way.

Folks, this is how you spell corrupt. These banks need to be transparent, these stock transactions need to be transparent - the people have a right to know who is orchestrating and banking on national demise.