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Post by Since84 on Mar 3, 2015 3:38:55 GMT -8
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Post by Since84 on Mar 3, 2015 4:28:04 GMT -8
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Post by rezonate on Mar 3, 2015 4:43:46 GMT -8
I know this is an AAPL board but there have been many AMZN volleys here too. Nice article about Amazon Web Services and a stunning graph showing Amazon's net negative cash flow, hidden beneath the surface. www.platformonomics.com/2015/02/aws-and-the-bonfire-of-amazons-vanities/"In contrast to Apple who says “no” by default, when confronted by new opportunities Amazon seemingly leaps up on the table and screams “Yes! Yes! Yes!” Their bonfire of initiatives has resulted in some notable and expensive misfires of late, including the disappearing Kindle Fire, the disastrous Fire Phone and the under-heralded Fire Diaper blowout And the jury is still out on Fire TV, the not-exactly-setting-the-world-on-fire Echo Fire, The Man on Fire in the High Castle, WorkMail Fire, and “hair on fire” one hour delivery amongst other efforts. And, for completeness, this is an AWS Fire."
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Post by rezonate on Mar 3, 2015 6:02:36 GMT -8
Gah, hated the Forbes "4 Reasons Why..." Article. Some people have zero imagination.
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Post by The Big Toe on Mar 3, 2015 6:16:45 GMT -8
Gah, hated the Forbes "4 Reasons Why..." Article. Some people have zero imagination. And here is a quote from the article: "That doesn’t meant that someday it won’t trigger a whole new generation of similar products that actually will make people’s lives less complex, more productive and healthier." Hey, we may not need another gadget like the apple watch, but I know we don't need another writer who does a lousy job of proofreading their writing.
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Post by macwire on Mar 3, 2015 7:06:55 GMT -8
aapl is attempting to powerout over my downtrend line. Trying to anyways. 65' chart.
Update: downtrend line still winning.
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Post by hledgard on Mar 3, 2015 7:22:56 GMT -8
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Post by Deleted on Mar 3, 2015 7:53:55 GMT -8
Howard Schultz would be shagging coin change with a cardboard sign if coffee wasn't addictive. This guy has failed at so many initiatives funded from Starbucks, I've stopped laughing. Music ("Hear Music"), Berry Infusions. Publishing ("Joe Magazine"), Evolution Express. Coffee machines. The list is long.
Their POS terminals are a POS. I tried to use Apple Pay last week and was met with a zombie stare (could be the caffeine, though).
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Post by Deleted on Mar 3, 2015 7:57:14 GMT -8
You can add Pebble to the list of "I don't have any ideas or talent" with its "Time Steel" smart watch. How to shame these bozos? Oh, wait, they're shameless, I forgot. 9to5mac.com/2015/03/03/pebble-time-steel/
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Post by Deleted on Mar 3, 2015 8:09:01 GMT -8
Oppenheimer increased AAPL's PT to $155. To Mr. Market: Pay attention!
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Post by Ted on Mar 3, 2015 8:27:56 GMT -8
Gah, hated the Forbes "4 Reasons Why..." Article. Some people have zero imagination. The author has zero credibility too! I enjoyed the article for its pure vapidity. His 4 reasons are a joke - he's got nuthin'! And he owns an iPhone, an iPad and a MacBook, but can't for the life of himself see a reason to buy the Watch…
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Post by macwire on Mar 3, 2015 9:23:32 GMT -8
Feel good about a long over this 65' down trend line. Might be a few more days. Hoping spx flushes to 2065 to coincide for more confidence in this trade.
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Post by nagrani on Mar 3, 2015 9:33:55 GMT -8
Feel good about a long over this 65' down trend line. Might be a few more days. Hoping spx flushes to 2065 to coincide for more confidence in this trade. English translation?
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Post by Since84 on Mar 3, 2015 9:41:04 GMT -8
I rolled my March options to April and May.
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Post by bud777 on Mar 3, 2015 9:56:12 GMT -8
I just got approval to sell naked puts and I am oiling my guns. May I ask the more enlightened here for their opinion of my latest bright idea? I don't know enough about options to explain this in the proper terms, so please forgive the country boy description. As I have said earlier, I will hold Apple if it drops to 50. I bought it in 2008 when it dropped from 180 to 90 and I bought it in June 2013 when it had dropped from 712 to under 400. Given that, I intended to sell naked puts against my shares about 20 points below the current price with a sell order on the shares at the strike price. For example, I would sell 50 Jan 17 put contacts with a strike of 100. At the same time, I would create a standing sell order if the share price dropped below 100. If we drop to 100, I sell the shares, get assigned and I own the stock again and keep the profit from the puts. I have described this in a previous post while I was waiting for approval to sell naked options and I appreciate the response from the board. Now I want to take this a step further. When I sell the 50 puts at 100, I will also sell 50 puts each at 90, 80, 70 and 60. Of course, I hope they expire worthless, but if we fell to 60, I would exercise the same strategy all the way down. Sell, get assigned, sell, get assigned. Is there a name for this laddered approach? Given that my alternative is to hold all the way down to 60, what is the relative risk? I just realized that a overnight drop from 100 to 60 would obligate me to 5*5000 shares. OK...a good idea, but not a great idea
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Post by macwire on Mar 3, 2015 10:12:14 GMT -8
Feel good about a long over this 65' down trend line. Might be a few more days. Hoping spx flushes to 2065 to coincide for more confidence in this trade. English translation? There is a down trend line on the 65 minute chart that AAPL has not broken over since 2/24 from last week. It's been pretty good resistance. I might like a long over that. It's now challenging that line again. Anyways my postulation was we might get a flush down to 2065 on spx in a few days and was eyeing that as a line start getting long again in general. With AAPL reversing here those two things don't look like they will coincide (AAPL simultaneously breaking that down trend line along with SPX at 2065 or so - that would have given me high confidence for a long set up) ::for people that believe in unicorns and squiggly lines::
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Post by incorrigible on Mar 3, 2015 10:22:31 GMT -8
Is a 65 minute chart and hourly chart with 5 minute ticks? 65 minutes makes no sense to me >_<
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Post by Deleted on Mar 3, 2015 10:30:04 GMT -8
I'm just about done rolling out my Julys. I learned hard (i.e. expensive) lessons about carrying ANY options that expire inside 6 months.
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Post by macwire on Mar 3, 2015 10:35:01 GMT -8
Is a 65 minute chart and hourly chart with 5 minute ticks? 65 minutes makes no sense to me >_< All equal bars on 65' chart.
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Post by tuffett on Mar 3, 2015 11:32:39 GMT -8
I just got approval to sell naked puts and I am oiling my guns. May I ask the more enlightened here for their opinion of my latest bright idea? I don't know enough about options to explain this in the proper terms, so please forgive the country boy description. As I have said earlier, I will hold Apple if it drops to 50. I bought it in 2008 when it dropped from 180 to 90 and I bought it in June 2013 when it had dropped from 712 to under 400. Given that, I intended to sell naked puts against my shares about 20 points below the current price with a sell order on the shares at the strike price. For example, I would sell 50 Jan 17 put contacts with a strike of 100. At the same time, I would create a standing sell order if the share price dropped below 100. If we drop to 100, I sell the shares, get assigned and I own the stock again and keep the profit from the puts. I have described this in a previous post while I was waiting for approval to sell naked options and I appreciate the response from the board. Now I want to take this a step further. When I sell the 50 puts at 100, I will also sell 50 puts each at 90, 80, 70 and 60. Of course, I hope they expire worthless, but if we fell to 60, I would exercise the same strategy all the way down. Sell, get assigned, sell, get assigned. Is there a name for this laddered approach? Given that my alternative is to hold all the way down to 60, what is the relative risk? I just realized that a overnight drop from 100 to 60 would obligate me to 5*5000 shares. OK...a good idea, but not a great idea You don't get assigned until expiry. So if you have a standing sell order you run the risk of selling your shares at $100 and having price recover to over $100 by the time your puts expire, leaving you with no shares. Unless I'm misinterpreting what your plan is, I don't think the selling part is a good idea. Use the puts for extra income and accumulate additional shares at good value.
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Post by Red Shirted Ensign on Mar 3, 2015 11:54:28 GMT -8
What happened at 2:14 P.M Eastern Standard Time?
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Post by Apple II+ on Mar 3, 2015 12:00:55 GMT -8
... For example, I would sell 50 Jan 17 put contacts with a strike of 100. At the same time, I would create a standing sell order if the share price dropped below 100. If we drop to 100, I sell the shares, get assigned and I own the stock again and keep the profit from the puts. ... If it drops to 100 you will sell your shares, but you probably won't get assigned unless and until it's below 100 at expiration (cf. tuffett). You're left deciding what to do with the proceeds from selling the shares in the interim. If it rebounds and you have done nothing, then you're missing out on the upside.
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Post by Red Shirted Ensign on Mar 3, 2015 12:01:00 GMT -8
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Post by Red Shirted Ensign on Mar 3, 2015 12:42:21 GMT -8
This one is just so JD's head will explode....from Dalrymple....Kanye West on Steve Jobs. Kanye talking to Oxford students: “I love Steve Jobs, he’s my favourite person, but there’s one thing that disappoints me. When Steve passed he didn’t give the ideas up. That’s kinda selfish. You know that Elon’s like ‘yeah, take these ideas’. Maybe there are companies outside of Apple that could work on them and push humanity forward. Maybe the stock brokers won’t like that, the stock holders wouldn’t like that idea, but ideas are free and you can’t be selfish with them.” www.loopinsight.com/
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Post by artman1033 on Mar 3, 2015 12:57:18 GMT -8
It appears iPhone sales & upgrades will benefit.
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Post by Since84 on Mar 3, 2015 13:04:15 GMT -8
Nice to see AAPL closed green, but what a slow day.
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Post by macwire on Mar 3, 2015 13:16:59 GMT -8
Some thoughts
65' chart
IF 126.50 was our pull back ...
Breaking back over the 133.50 --> 126.50 .382 fib is 129.22 (closed above)
Break over 65' trend line close here
Higher low from 126.50 to roughly 128 128 support tested several times on microtime frame
I am eyeing start possibly get aggressively long over 131 or so. That's the .618 and should be stiff resistance from the decline.
I like the potential on micro timeframe for traders and investors to start getting long here mid week rolling into event day next week
Trade em well folks ✌️
(I'll attach a chart tonight)
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Post by Deleted on Mar 3, 2015 13:39:35 GMT -8
This one is just so JD's head will explode....from Dalrymple....Kanye West on Steve Jobs. Kanye talking to Oxford students: “I love Steve Jobs, he’s my favourite person, but there’s one thing that disappoints me. When Steve passed he didn’t give the ideas up. That’s kinda selfish. You know that Elon’s like ‘yeah, take these ideas’. Maybe there are companies outside of Apple that could work on them and push humanity forward. Maybe the stock brokers won’t like that, the stock holders wouldn’t like that idea, but ideas are free and you can’t be selfish with them.” www.loopinsight.com/Can we all agree Kanye is a douche and he doesn't know it.
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Post by Mav on Mar 3, 2015 15:00:35 GMT -8
He's a music genius, can't deny/begrudge his success.
Tho his next album should be called Self Aware
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Post by Deleted on Mar 3, 2015 16:09:15 GMT -8
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