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Cash Position Best for Apple Investor

AAPL seems to be resisting further damage this afternoon; looks promising.
Oct 06 14:35 pm |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article
Cash Position Best for Apple Investor

All I have to say is that those who take his advice and sell at these levels will likely regret doing so very soon.
Oct 06 10:50 am |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article
AAPL's Time For Greatness Is Now

Apple's accounting for iPhone revenue is fine; this is one of the reasons why Apple will have sustainable earnings in the next 18 months to ride out the recession.
A true investor would understand and appreciate this, while a trader would not.
Oct 01 17:05 pm |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article
Now What for Apple Investors?

"The commission is committed to using every weapon in its arsenal to combat market manipulation that threatens investors and capital markets," said SEC Chairman Christopher Cox in a statement. "The emergency order temporarily banning short selling of financial stocks will restore equilibrium to markets."

The feds also think short sales aren't part of the problem!
Sep 19 13:12 pm |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article
Three New Microsoft Commercials Making PCs Cool(er)

Is this what they call "putting lipstick on a pig"?
Sep 19 11:43 am |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article
Now What for Apple Investors?

UK Regulator Bars Short-selling on Financials- AP
Britain's financial regulator said Thursday it was temporarily banning the short-selling of shares in financial companies that are listed on the London Stock Exchange. Short-selling, in which investors sell borrowed shares in hopes of buying them back later at a lower price, has been blamed for sending bank share prices plummeting and exacerbating turmoil in financial markets. U.S. regulators tightened rules on the practice Wednesday.
Sep 18 15:09 pm |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article
Now What for Apple Investors?

"If I and everyone else was in an all out effort to sell AAPL stock the net effect would be to push the price up."

Really! You mean the short positions are eventually closed
You cannot escape the fact that net SELLING pushes the price DOWN, and by shorting the stock, you are SELLING.

I do not leave in a dream world; I am an investor, not a trader.

If you are convinced the stock should be going down either on its own merit or because the company's performance is being affected by economic factors, you should use Put Options, and not exacerbate an already bad situation by selling securities you do not own.
Sep 16 14:57 pm |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article
Now What for Apple Investors?

The problem is he and everyone else who follows his advice are borrowing the stock you and I own without our express permission and selling them, thereby driving the price down beyond where (based on fundamentals) it ought to be!
Sep 16 13:03 pm |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article
Now What for Apple Investors?

If the society is truly "free-market"... then the troubled banks and mortgage underwriters should be allowed to fail; after all, they created the financial crisis.
Sep 16 11:50 am |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article
Apple: Leading the Way to a Total Tech Breakdown

At 4am this Seeking Ahpa writer says the stock is heading south and at 8am another Seeking Alpha writer says the stock is buy.

What a circus!

Sep 15 10:38 am |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article
6 Things Apple's Not Doing Right

"6 Things Apple's Not Doing Right"

Give Apple and all of us a break; what about the million other things they ARE Doing Right?
Sep 12 09:48 am |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article
Why Doesn't Apple Give Away iPods?

A thesis on the obvious; what a waste of reading time!
Sep 11 09:57 am |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article
Apple's Problems - Bad to the Core?

This is like trashing your kid for a grade slippage from A+ to an A.
Aug 25 16:24 pm |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article
Apple's Problems - Bad to the Core?

Smear, that is all this is!
Aug 25 11:24 am |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article
Why I [Don’t] Want My Blackberry Bold

Maybe their market intelligence told them there is no one left to buy a bold because they already bought the iphone.
I also toyed with a demo unit and I wouldn't want one!
Aug 25 10:22 am |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article

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