chinacat
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Post by chinacat on Oct 13, 2018 9:45:44 GMT -8
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Post by macster on Oct 13, 2018 11:51:34 GMT -8
Interesting article ..... Google is downplaying Android to focus its future on Chrome OS By Daniel Eran Dilger Friday, October 12, 2018
Although some in the comments area refute it.
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Post by 4aapl on Oct 14, 2018 7:47:39 GMT -8
The link isn't working...looks like it's missing from the html tag. It is appleinsider.com/articles/18/10/12/watch-iphone-xs-maxs-a12-bionic-smokes-samsungs-galaxy-note-9If smartphone speed matters to the masses, which it probably does (though likely more of a want than a need), then getting this info out there on major places that non-techie's follow is important. Hopefully it will be spread, by PED and others, making it to the stock company news feeds. I'd love to see it hit mainstream, being one more thing that might get someone to switch. Not that it matters much, especially in the wake of marketwide chaos this week, but AAPL broke it's trend of "up week, then a down week" going back to mid-July. IMO it is impressive that AAPL held up and recovered as much as it did. And with this out of the way, I'd expect AAPL to generally climb the remained of the year, with volatility around elections and tariffs (general marketwide fear of unknowns), along with likely Apple rumors "sources" tend to chuck out there during their quiet period leading up to earnings.
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Post by chinacat on Oct 14, 2018 8:12:04 GMT -8
Thanks for helping out. Apologies for the error.
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Post by chinacat on Oct 14, 2018 8:24:26 GMT -8
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Post by bud777 on Oct 14, 2018 19:14:48 GMT -8
Back in the last big tech run up there was a strategy called "chips on dips" meaning that people moved money into tech stocks on downturns. Given the kind of volatility we are experiencing and the security that Apple offers, I wonder if that might account for the up week/down week behavior
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Post by 4aapl on Oct 15, 2018 7:34:01 GMT -8
Back in the last big tech run up there was a strategy called "chips on dips" meaning that people moved money into tech stocks on downturns. Given the kind of volatility we are experiencing and the security that Apple offers, I wonder if that might account for the up week/down week behavior My offhand guess is that it makes sense when there were big weekly moves in AAPL, but the small weekly moves were more of a coincidence. Like this section, in a diversification article: "Sometimes correlation is merely a fun statistical coincidence. From 1999-2009, there was a very high correlation between the number of people killed by venomous spiders and the number of letters in the winning word of the Scripps National Spelling Bee." www.thestreet.com/retirement/how-to-really-diversify-your-retirement-portfolio-14743982BTW, while I liked that article in general (for those not knowing why or how to diversify), to me the whole thing was negated by the crisis section, since the crisis times are the only times I would want negatively correlated investments. "We saw this happen during the 2008-09 credit crisis. As stocks collapsed, investors tried to sell everything that wasn't tied down -- stocks, bonds, collectibles, etc. As a result, asset prices all moved in the same direction -- down. That's what made the crisis so difficult to weather. There was nowhere to hide. Investors who would normally rebalance their portfolio by selling high and buying low, found they had nothing to sell." That said, I'm sure it helps a lot of people sleep better at night, even if it isn't the best for their long term portfolio. Back to AAPL, there could be something to "chips on dips" (hadn't remembered it), but it could just be some traders making nice bank on the ups and downs, and a couple big players (Apple, Buffet, and others we know not of) backing it up and buying on any dips. Either way, it was probably just a long running coincidence, just as one should't rely on a roulette wheel going back and forth from red and black, even if it did it 12 times in a row. Luckily with AAPL, we've been on the House's side.
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