Icahn Tweets The AAPL Rescue Orders

If AAPL is indeed what broke the NASDAQ, here comes Uncle Carl to make sure there is an early AAPL bid just as the NASDAQ reopens.

Spoke to Tim. Planning dinner in September. Tim believes in buyback and is doing one. What will be discussed is magnitude.

— Carl Icahn (@Carl_C_Icahn) August 22, 2013

Well, yes, we all know that. But nothing like a dose of HFT momentum ignition driven by a tweet to provide an upside bias just as the shocked and confused algos regroup.