No, I dont think it was an "inside job". I just think whoever planned it was probably trying to plunge the market, as one of their many goals, thereby throwing the financial system into a wreck.
I got this off of www.drudgereport.com ... Dow Jones end of Friday: 9605 Dow Jones Sept 10 2001: 9605 eerie. Also, the 9/11 truth movement has speculated for some time that unknown traders used knowledge of the Sept. 11 attacks to make money, including using puts for the air lines, WTC tenances, and WTC re-insurance companies. http://911truth.org/article.php?story=20041221155307646 I'm not saying my thoughts lean towards one way or the other, just that some of these theories are out there.
fwiw, I went back and spent some time on yahoo finance reading posts on various stocks the first weeks of sept '01 and didn't find much of anything.
As far as the exceedingly abnormal put volume on UAUA and LCC... that's not speculation, that's known. The government even said they would look into it. Years later, all we know is some silly story about some guy hedging.
LOL Something tells me that anyone who was in on that would not be posting about it on Yahoo message boards...oh yeah, it's my common sense...lmfao I can't believe there are still people who believe it was "the Islamic extremists" who did it. Like I already said before on this forum once, if there were really Muslims who wanted to hurt America "for its freedom", they could come to NYC any day TODAY, safely travel to Manhattan or Brooklyn Bridge, or better yet, go into Penn Station or 34th Street, with a bomb in their suitcase without anyone checking them in, and safely blow themselves up along with thousands of people and billions in collateral damage. God forbid (and it seems only he'd be there to stop them)!