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Post by phoebear611 on May 30, 2014 16:56:03 GMT -8
The bar is open!
I took the liberty of opening the bar since I get the feeling you have all already poured your respective drinks by now! And, I can't blame anyone - it was a great week with hopes of an even better week to come.
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Post by Mav on May 30, 2014 17:03:56 GMT -8
I had an OK week - meaning the rest of you must have had an awesome one!
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Post by nagrani on May 30, 2014 17:07:59 GMT -8
I'm holding jan 2015 600s thinking of selling Monday and rolling to 2016 700s. Thoughts from the aaplarazzi over here?
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Post by JDSoCal on May 30, 2014 17:15:14 GMT -8
I'm holding jan 2015 600s thinking of selling Monday and rolling to 2016 700s. Thoughts from the aaplarazzi over here? Well I was thinking more 20 15 700's. But what do I know; I'm still holding some 980-1000's.
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Post by Red Shirted Ensign on May 30, 2014 18:49:22 GMT -8
I'm holding jan 2015 600s thinking of selling Monday and rolling to 2016 700s. Thoughts from the aaplarazzi over here? The April 2015s are now available. Take a look at those. No long term capital gains but the clock and product cycle might coincide....
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Post by Red Shirted Ensign on May 30, 2014 18:49:42 GMT -8
I'm holding jan 2015 600s thinking of selling Monday and rolling to 2016 700s. Thoughts from the aaplarazzi over here? Duplicate post....so I'll just say I think time is everyone's friend now...rolling at 635 and owning seven times as many contracts at 90..
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Post by Mav on May 30, 2014 18:57:44 GMT -8
You get 7x the contracts, with 1/7 the value. Works out the same, except for 7x the contracts to sell.
Btw I can't wait until I no longer have to think about divisible by 7 options
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Post by Red Shirted Ensign on May 30, 2014 19:21:10 GMT -8
You get 7x the contracts, with 1/7 the value. Works out the same, except for 7x the contracts to sell. Btw I can't wait until I no longer have to think about divisible by 7 options You won't have much longer But to your point, I want more contracts at lower strikes.....can sell different combos more easily....more liquidity.....less manipulation.....and if the underlying is going to 100, enjoy the ride
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Post by Mav on May 30, 2014 19:39:58 GMT -8
I'm all for dividing by 7 screwing up OpEx Friday ahem I mean the natural order of supply and demand
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Post by lulli on May 30, 2014 20:06:11 GMT -8
I have a questions for all the experts on this board. Maybe there is a simple answer.
I had a bunch of conditional (mkt) orders on etrade, to be executed if AAPL would fall below prices that were all well below the opening price.
But then, shortly after 11 AM EDT, those orders have been executed, even though their price has not been reached: calls have been sold, puts have been bought.
This should not have happened. AAPL price around that time was near the high of the day, and relatively stable. One conditional order was setup to execute at a price below 630. But it still executed today a few minutes after 11am....?!?
I can't find any indication of aapl having traded at any price below 635 before this afternoon.
Why did etrade execute the conditional orders? Is it possible that some transaction happened in their internal trading systems at a stupidly low price, which then triggered the orders? Has anyone else experienced this?
It's not that I am complaining that this thing happened today, but I am complaining about the apparent unreliability of conditional mkt orders on etrade.
Does anyone have some explanation for this?
Thanks for any help...!
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Post by Mav on May 30, 2014 20:19:26 GMT -8
For some of the day at least one quote service/charting service I check was saying the intraday low was 624. Which it doesn't now. Mystery quote.
What did E*Trade say when you asked?
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Post by JDSoCal on May 30, 2014 23:17:07 GMT -8
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Post by theirishguy on May 31, 2014 2:09:08 GMT -8
This should be VERY interesting:Carl Icahn, Phil Mickelson 'in insider trading probe'"The FBI is investigating possible insider trading involving billionaire investor Carl Icahn, golfer Phil Mickelson and Las Vegas gambler William Walters, reports say. The inquiry is reportedly examining whether Mr Mickelson and Mr Walters may have traded shares illegally, based on information provided by Mr Icahn." www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-27647437
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Post by Deleted on May 31, 2014 5:59:52 GMT -8
Apple has done a good job keeping a lid on WWDC news. Probably the best recap of what might get announced is by Mark Gurman. It seems there's still a lot of work to do with iOS8, delaying many features to iOS8.1 later this (next?) year. This suggests Apple code heads have been diverted to the work behind a new product (iWatch and Apple TV). I'm not expecting big things at WWDC -- as much as I want to. Nagging questions include: 1. Why did Apple time the split to coincide with WWDC -- was it intended to support a non-news event at WWDC? 2. Eddie Cue referred to the best product pipeline in 25 years this fall -- was that intended to lower expectations for Monday? I'm bullish on Apple and AAPL, but I'm not convinced WWDC will be the catalyst we want it to be. The split? I think all that's left is AAPL going into the Dow. iPhone 6 will be MASSIVE. The link: 9to5mac.com/2014/05/30/wwdc-2014-roundup-enhanced-ios-8-redesigned-os-x-10-10-fresh-hardware-plus-new-details/
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Post by Red Shirted Ensign on May 31, 2014 6:32:07 GMT -8
We'll get some installation figures on Monday...as we usually do....and these will allow the digit heads to extrapolate some new worldwide penetration numbers. Last quarter's sales numbers for the phone and the ongoing rumble about third world gains could provide fodder for some bumped up market share estimates..
Many of the developer breakouts are still mysteriously untitled. This is not unusual but makes me believe that tying the "big strategic picture" together is what the week is all about. That should be enough.
A two hour live-streamed keynote tells me there is a big story coming....but we just get the Apple seeds now.
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Post by phoebear611 on May 31, 2014 6:36:11 GMT -8
Did you do this or did you post it from somewhere in the WWDC venue?
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Post by rob_london on May 31, 2014 7:13:54 GMT -8
Apple has done a good job keeping a lid on WWDC news. Probably the best recap of what might get announced is by Mark Gurman. It seems there's still a lot of work to do with iOS8, delaying many features to iOS8.1 later this (next?) year. This suggests Apple code heads have been diverted to the work behind a new product (iWatch and Apple TV). / Or perhaps personnel from the iOS team have been redeployed to help the Macintosh OS X software developers finish off 'Yosemite'? There were stories that the reverse situation happened last year, to get iOS 7 out the door on time. As we know, Apple runs relatively small teams on projects.
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Post by Deleted on May 31, 2014 7:53:23 GMT -8
Apple has done a good job keeping a lid on WWDC news. Probably the best recap of what might get announced is by Mark Gurman. It seems there's still a lot of work to do with iOS8, delaying many features to iOS8.1 later this (next?) year. This suggests Apple code heads have been diverted to the work behind a new product (iWatch and Apple TV). / Or perhaps personnel from the iOS team have been redeployed to help the Macintosh OS X software developers finish off 'Yosemite'? There were stories that the reverse situation happened last year, to get iOS 7 out the door on time. As we know, Apple runs relatively small teams on projects. Possibly, but what OSX features are expected to justify pushing out iOS8.1 features? I'm not expecting much more than a flat design makeover.
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Post by redinaustin on May 31, 2014 8:24:54 GMT -8
Did you do this or did you post it from somewhere in the WWDC venue? I don't know where he got it, but I saw it on Twitter yesterday with no mention of WWDC.
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Post by rob_london on May 31, 2014 8:38:48 GMT -8
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Post by BillH on May 31, 2014 9:14:46 GMT -8
Don't know why Artman hasn't posted this but his hometown (St. Paul) has seen the error of it's ways. They're dumping a relatively recent contract with Dell for product and software in favor of Apple's iPad. Software is hard. You can read about it here. Meanwhile, we saw this at a restaurant near our MSP gate when we arrived from Key West last Tuesday. It was right next to a Delta lounge that was equally loaded with iPads.
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Post by BillH on May 31, 2014 9:20:11 GMT -8
Seem to be having software issues this afternoon but I'll try attaching the pic again. Sorry for the duplicate post.
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Post by Mav on May 31, 2014 9:54:40 GMT -8
Easy to delete posts BillH. On non-app mobile hit the gear button and choose delete post.
If a Delta lounge has tons of iPads, just maybe the pilots are using them over Surface as EFBs. Haven't heard any updates after that first deal announcement.
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Post by JDSoCal on May 31, 2014 10:52:59 GMT -8
Did you do this or did you post it from somewhere in the WWDC venue? Yep, found that on Twitter.
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Post by artman1033 on May 31, 2014 11:00:24 GMT -8
JOSH Arnold is a Minnesota based "investment advisor". He is a great follower of the fruit company. Today's show includes a number of questions about AAPL. www.1500espn.com/shows/moneytalk
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Post by ericinaustin on May 31, 2014 12:01:18 GMT -8
Don't know why Artman hasn't posted this but his hometown (St. Paul) has seen the error of it's ways. They're dumping a relatively recent contract with Dell for product and software in favor of Apple's iPad. Software is hard. You can read about it here. Meanwhile, we saw this at a restaurant near our MSP gate when we arrived from Key West last Tuesday. It was right next to a Delta lounge that was equally loaded with iPads. Along those same lines , I had an interesting lunch yesterday that I thought worthy oh a long post........ I had a very interesting experience at lunch yesterday which I would like to share with all of you. I have an older patient that got an HP touchpad (about two years old) from her son. We're friends and so I offered to meet her at lunch and spend an hour so showing her how to use the system. We were in a little bistro in Austin that had 50 gigs per second Wi-Fi so connections were certainly not an issue. When she pulled it out it seemed to be a fairly nice little HP touchpad. Not obviously cheap, a bit more plastic but not bad. You could tell the build quality wasn't as good as Apple of course and it wasn't as dense ( or as solid is how I would put it.) but no glaring weakness. Android interface was ok, a bit muddled but graphics good. The App Store was a sad shell of the apple experience. Kind of a burned-out Detroit compared to Hong Kong. But the reason for my post was the absolutely atrocious touch interface experience. Maybe I'm just spoiled by apples implementation, but this experience made the tablet almost unusable. There is a horrible lag from the finger touch to the action. It struggles to do what you tell it to. Just the lag alone with every touch input caused huge amounts of delay in total. As an example, my patient thought when you had an email list in Gmail , to open the one you want you had to touch the name and move over and touch a second time in the heading to make it open. I realized it was just lag from the first touch. But she was habituated to two touches. Toward the end of the two hours we were both very frustrated and had gotten very little done. I told her that she was eventually going to just quit using the pad because of this. I encouraged her to go to the Apple Store and play with theirs to see the difference and I let her pull up her email account on my iPad just to see what it felt like. It was night and day. I write all this to make the point that that interface is the key to the success of tablets. And apple has patented the only touch interface system that works that well. So even if the android ecosystem gets better and better and better, I don't think Apple's dominance in tablets is threatened at all. One of my worries was that "good enough and cheaper" would start to win out. Much less worried now. I have an HP laptop for work that I got five years ago. Screen flips around to be used as a tablet. It had a touch interface on the screen as well but it was so atrocious I turned it off after about three days. I would've thought that they would've gotten a lot better by now but apparently not. Eric in Austin
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Post by ericinaustin on May 31, 2014 12:04:41 GMT -8
Anybody else have the same experience with touch systems on android tablets or did she just have a bad one?
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Post by lulli on May 31, 2014 13:29:16 GMT -8
For some of the day at least one quote service/charting service I check was saying the intraday low was 624. Which it doesn't now. Mystery quote. What did E*Trade say when you asked? That would explain it! Would be interesting to know when that 624 low occurred. But then everyone on etrade with contingent mkt orders this last Friday below prices higher than 624 would have seen their orders triggered. This thing with contingent orders executing when they shouldn't on etrade happened to me before, and when I asked they said it was correct, but I never had the time to go get a detailed explanation. Now I am just wondering if others on etrade have experienced the same thing, now or ever. Because then contingent orders on etrade become too dangerous to use....
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Post by hamourabi on May 31, 2014 15:56:44 GMT -8
So true from www.marco.orgFull video of Eddy Cue and Jimmy Iovine at Re/code → May 30, 2014 • ∞ I wasn’t familiar with Jimmy Iovine before, but I’m convinced that getting him to Apple was worth any price. Seeing this has made me realize what Apple’s public face and events have been sorely lacking since 2011: charisma.
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Post by macwire on May 31, 2014 17:30:27 GMT -8
For some of the day at least one quote service/charting service I check was saying the intraday low was 624. Which it doesn't now. Mystery quote. What did E*Trade say when you asked? That would explain it! Would be interesting to know when that 624 low occurred. But then everyone on etrade with contingent mkt orders this last Friday below prices higher than 624 would have seen their orders triggered. This thing with contingent orders executing when they shouldn't on etrade happened to me before, and when I asked they said it was correct, but I never had the time to go get a detailed explanation. Now I am just wondering if others on etrade have experienced the same thing, now or ever. Because then contingent orders on etrade become too dangerous to use.... I'm sure it's a busted order. Maybe execution in error or something with a reg nms exemption related.
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