Fact 2: Markopolos once slept in a dumpster in the East 60's while staking out Bernie Madoff on the weekend after a triple witching options expiration, just to have first dibs on .
Says Terry Hartle of the American Council on Education, a lobbying firm that represents 1,800 colleges and universities: "What you're seeing in California is a double witching hour.
This situation is caused by a witching hour of three factors.
Quadruple Witching Strikes on Summer Solstice Markets may be higher despite the prospect of "Witching Hour" later in the trading day exasperating any sell-off. But traders aren't resting on their laurels, with volatility surging higher after a major sell-off on Thursday.
June 21, 2013 - CNBC
Benzinga Market Primer: Friday, June 21 Futures Rise On Quadruple Witching U.S. equity futures gained in early pre-market trade Friday after Thursday's sell off as Chinese lending rates eased. The overnight SHIBOR rate fell to 7.9
June 21, 2013 - Nasdaq
Annette Haven in San Jose Mercury News My dear, let me tell you, all this stuff about going at midnight, at the witching hour - that's just bunk,says Martin, a grandmotherly woman with a sunny disposition and smiling eyes that look right through you. "You can go in broad...
Anne Rice in St. Petersburg Times I wanted to be a saint. I wanted to be like St. Rose of Lima,Rice says. "She could toss roses in the air and they'd stay as a wreath; she was so powerful as a saint. I used that image in The Witching Hour. I had Lasher, the evil spirit,...
Robert Hass in Atlantic Online In the New York Times review of The Crossing, Robert Hass praised the effect: "It is a matter of straight-on writing, a veering accumulation of compound sentences, stinginess with commas, and a witching repetition of words ...... Once this style is...