They might go the other way, handing a loss to an in-and-out trader.

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On the floor of the American Stock Exchange it is widely believed that any trader cocky enough to attract media attention is destined to "blow out" -- trader lingo for going out of business.

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Helping the trader out hugely here is a doubling in the critical value of options implied volatility.

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