Well, let's see if I can get anyone to believe me here. I tried to post about this topic on another forum-which-must-not-be-named and was basically laughed off the thread.

Here it goes: I've never, ever have written a thread like "My uncle told me the world's gonna end next week, but I can't tell you why" before, but I'm afraid this is such a thread.

Not that the world will end (at least not that I know of). Also, I want to make this clear from the get-go: THIS IS NOT A PREDICTION OR A PROPHECY!!!

I'd love to go into the details, but I'm working for an investment firm which is gonna write about this situation in one of its paid services, so I can't front-run them -- a) it wouldn't be right, b) I could get in trouble for it.

So as much as I'd like to give you all the juicy tidbits, I'll have to be somewhat vague with this.

PLEASE NOTE: this is NOT a conspiracy theory; it's fact and can be checked. There's no doubt about this, and I haven't heard it from some obscure source -- this info comes from a big-time hedge fund guy who has done a lot of research and by chance found this out.

So, after all the disclaimers, I'll tell you what I CAN tell you, and I really hope that someone on this forum will take this seriously. You're welcome to check my thread record -- I'm not a nutcase (well, not more than most here anyway ;)), and I'm working in the investment biz.

I found out yesterday that contrary to what most people think, stocks aren't safe at all -- what I'm saying is that ordinary stock investors like you and me have basically no protection whatsoever. What happened with MF Global and futures investors can happen with stocks to anyone with a brokerage account.

I hope people here will realize how HUGE this is, without me having to spell out every little detail...