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Apple Investor Anxiety At Its Highest In 18 Months
Just over a month ago - before AAPL started to fall apart - we noted the extreme levels of complacency priced into AAPL options. Heading into tonight's earnings, it seems investors are as extremely concerned as they were complacent just a few weeks ago. AAPL option prices are implying investors expect significant downside possibilities - the most concerned they have been in 18 months. Whether this is ammunition for a squeeze higher or is just the over-crowded long hedgies covering into earnings on hope - looking to reduce into strength - we will see in a few hours (but for now - the constant fading of VWAP reversions suggests the latter).
The Options-implied skewness expectation of the forward distribution or returns for AAPL - or in English - the lower on the chart, the more investors are expecting a stock-drop.
and day after day we are seeing pullbacks to VWAP (the red-lines and the horizontal lines) being faded on sizable volume - suggesting market-maker algos digesting institutional block sell orders...
Evidently, this is not short-sellers - this is longs exiting - and the skew in options suggests those that didn't sell, covered up somewhat...
Charts: Bloomberg
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miss on the top but beat on the bottom?
I wonder if BAC showed them how to use DVA
"I wonder if BAC showed them how to use DVA".......
While using OPM to DCA into a UIT at their local BD.
I was very surprised to read that Apple just extended the time an iPad 3.0 buyer could return their new iPad from 14 days to 30 days in order to allow those who recently bought the 3.0 version to "upgrade" to the just released 4.0
Very un-Apple like. In the past this option was never offered. Sign of problems ahead?
<Disclosure......I own and love my Apple products.>
Or a sign of recognition that the customer is king, and not the company.
some misspellings
Past performance is no indication of future results, but you would have gotten a good return if you went long AAPL at each of the previous red arrows.
Hedging that heavily when Apple is already down 14% from it's high tells me to take the opposite side of that trade for a short term pop,
I would have anxiety too if I had all my apples in one basket..Apple Sauce BITCHEZ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVCyUwYJ-Xs
'apple anxiety'
i sense a coming wave of new medical diagnoses on the near horizon.
disability claims to rise smartly over the next few months...
It looks like it might be time to go long for a quick move up to $652. I don't think I'll play this overnight. If it hits $652, I'm going short. Still 30 minutes left, we'll see...
just your everyday market discovery at work....
AAPL is still in the $ three digits.. why worry?
AAPL is the Hedge Fund... aka "Roach Motel".. 800 roaches and growing.
The stock is now trading at more than a 10% discount to the overall market on a forward P/E basis.
As much as I love ZH and embrace the contrarian mindset, I think anyone expecting the stock to correct much further - without squeezing the hell out of the shorts first - is setting themselves up for a beating.
So... Earnings...
If everyone who wants an apple has an apple, what is the marginal utility of yet another apple?
AAPL $606.66
Apple just took Pandora off the market with the announcement of Apple radio.
Portable, wireless iTransistor radios. What will they think of next?
Remember the "Apple Bonkers" from the movie "The Yellow Submarine"? That is the image for AAPL in AH after earnings release.
Hedge Funds attracted to the APPL scent..
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-JDk-petdC5I/Tt42Y9iFf6I/AAAAAAAADHQ/dfOneBWP2v...
You want to short something, short Microsoft. That stock has been going nowhere for years now. And the decrepid OS Windows, now in it's 8th incarnation, proves that they have nothing up their sleves...at all.
Windows 8 is horrid... We received the beta in at work, and it's unusable on anything other than a tablet.
Duffman's secret shame? Dyslexia!
AAPL investors can make the excess fruits they hold into Dicken's Cider, mix with some brandy, and savor it.
All, what is the bloomie function to chart the option skew? thanks