Reply #36: A lot of activity happened BEFORE the SEC announced the charges

[Robbien]

Trading Update for ProShares UltraShort Financials

NEW YORK (Market Intellisearch) -- SKF options saw interesting call activity today. A total of 2,285 put and 28,907 call contracts were traded raising a low Put/Call volume alert. Today's traded Put/Call ratio is 0.08. There were 12.65 calls traded for each put contract.

Unusual volume provides reliable clues that the stock is expected to make a move. Investors can use the Put/Call ratio statistics to measure trader sentiment. A high Put/Call ratio suggests that the overall investment sentiment is bearish and that investors expect the underlying stock to decrease in value. Conversely, a low Put/Call ratio implies that the overall investor sentiment is bullish based on the large amount of call options.

http://www.marketintellisearch.com/articles/1009243.html




What do you want to bet that Goldman knew this was coming today and shorted itself so that it could reap a huge windfall.