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Newton Is Back As Apple Finally Falls
UPDATE 2: AAPL bouncing from the lows even as Mac Rumors now reports that iPad 2 has been pulled from Amazon China. Recall this story on the recently contentious relationship between Apple and China.
UPDATE: AAPL now $502.08 lows for day -$24 from highs
Chatter of a QQQQ rebalance (Apple is up ~50% from the last rebalance compared to 10% for NASDAQ) seems to be stumbling the iEconomy as AAPL goes red. Now, which of the 209 funds will be first out of the door? and which last? Volume is picking up for sure and options (especially short-dated) are getting very excited. Of course, broad indices are losing their bid implicitly as ES drops below the pre-China rumor and post-Samaras pop levels. Perhaps it is the recognition that we sold off 7% in a week after the last QQQQ rebalance (April 2011) and the pre-move was nothing compared to this...
Apple's outperformance of the NASDAQ (below) since the last rebalance is remarkable and perhaps supports the rebalancing rumor.
Also of note perhaps is the put-call ratio is below 0.7 which tends to initiate a trend stall or reversal (h/t John Lohman) and also the implied Kurtosis for long- and short-term options has crossed (i.e. short-term complacency has rotated almost entirely to long-term about major downside moves) which has tended to also point to trend stalls or reversals.
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Absolutely no one could have seen that coming.
Nash FTMFW
02-15 12:22: Fed's Fisher says there will be no QE3, there is no need
Fisher is just there to give the Fed an ounce of cred once the Fiat Ponzi implodes.
If Apple falls significantly, it will rip a massive hole in The Bernank's virtuous circle experiment of economic theory (the one where The Federal Reserve has as its prime directive the task of artificially juicing and supporting equity prices using taxpayer dollars).
No, I'm not joking, given the number of buyers/holders and the leverage involved in the underlying structure that is the virtuous circle.
The Bernank had better plug that hole, and quickly.
Never put all your eggs or apples in one basket, charlatans of fractional reserve banking schemes.
<cough, cough>Climax Top<cough, cough>
Excuse me.
Well ya know, if you have ~$100bn in cash in a pile at home, and the Fed prints an assload more $$$'s..... idk, kinda, sorta, maybe, tiny issue? perhaps?
Next stop $250.
Apple really, really needs to buy some gold.
I would think tech firms would be buying silver while it is cheap. I heard they use it to solder stuff.
Ben the Bank should gave plugged his hole a couple years ago.
Apple is falling like a rock because of copyright infringement. The irony is it lobbied for the laws in China.
http://www.redorbit.com/news/technology/1112474665/apple-facing-global-i...
All Apple iPads are getting yanked off of store shelves as of Monday. That and the loss of 400 million chinese citizens (out of 1.6 billion) with disposable income can purchase one of many Android based solutions that are 1/10th the cost.
So Apple will be selling crap to clients in North America, Japan and Europe. China, not until they bribe the right people a lot of money. India is appearently intending to take the same stance with it's locally produced tablet lines.
I'm no Apple devotee but this seems shady as a... um... just shady. Anybody else think this has been a Chinese ploy for at least like a couple thousand years?
***Onion (or not?) Breaking News***
China announced it is seizing all of Apple's assets pursuant to both a) enforcement of an unpaid trademark infringement award against Apple, and b) new trade violations proposed by the U.S.
In other news, Foxconn has announced that is repudiating its contract to produce products for the Cupertino, California based seller of such gadgets as the iPad, iPhone and Macintosh computers, due to a variety of legal disputes that it will more formally articulate by way of a seperate lawsuit, expected to be filed in China within the next several weeks.
Foxconn has seperately announced it will be producing a competitor to the iPad, which it claims is more advanced and will sell at 1/2 the price, for a soon to be disclosed customer - or even a newly formed subsidiary of Foxconn- and that it has received orders for production of 50 million of these devices for the month of February alone.
***Onion (or not?) Breaking News***
China to NATO: mess with Syria, and AAPL goes back to 200.
Live by the writ, die by the writ.
Apple stole the name "iPhone" from Compaq awhile back, and of course given due process in our corrupt legal system, they totally overpowered the Compaq lawyers and had it awarded to them for free.
Facing the same situation in China on the other side of the docket.
It would be funny if--aw, hell--it IS funny.
A lot of surprised economists doing the pee pee dance - unexpectedly!
Better crash than expected.
No one I tells ya!
The whole market just took a dump, another fat finger?
AAPL is the market these days...
Black boxes are the market these days, and AAPL is their #1.
Perhaps the fickle finger of fate.....
LOL.. TD's had to have that 3rd law headline on a sticky note just waiting. :-)
EURUSD at session lows too
When Stolper talks people listen.
QQQQ more!
I think you meant QEQEQEQE moer!
China asked to ban exports of iPad due to trademark dispute.. could that have anything to do with it?
http://old.news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20120214/ap_on_hi_te/as_china_apple_ipad_dispute
And it is about time. AAPL is a great company, but all, all parabolas collapse. That is a fact. And as Tyler advised AAPL IS the market. And there is no freaking market anymore, just machines and inmates running the books.
Apple benefitted from people not paying their mortgages, student loans, and credit card debt to buy iProduct.
The next wave of this Depression will leave no fiat to be squandered on useless toys.
Dont forget that Apple's entire profit margin is on the backs of the masses of chinese living in campuses)shitholes) year round 24/7 (subtract the week they try to go home for lunar new year). think of that the next time you multitouch yourself.
Thank you NAFTA!
Is China in North America? You seriously need to go back to third grade to get some basic geography lessons.
There's always more countries around willing to make their people into slaves for a dollar
With all these Chinamen throwing themselves off Foxcom roof tops where's Joe Stack.. Chinese version ?
No not all parabolas collapse. Still waiting for Gold price in Zimbabwean dollars to come back. Not holding my breath.
Polusi and Gore will ask the congress to order the SEC to ban on short sell of AAPL.
And with that the short is squeezed out.
but, i heard they're coming out with a TV... and a new "smart" phone and a new maxi-pad...?? surely this has more room to run???
comes in a set with i-poop for those times.. should really "spike" the stock
Last one out is a rotten egg.
Damn, ZH called it again
This morning was AAA...
All About Apple
First items sold if there is "trouble" out there: PM's and overextended IBD Mo-Mo names
First items bought: TLT, TIP, MUB, UUP
Nothing has changed.
robo youre outstanding insight based on obvious market history is amazing, jaw dropping.................
To Keynesians, "history" means all time since 1971.
Funny how he can never get the future right though.
Uh, PM's are up?
The value in RobotTrader's comments is that he consistently delivers the most representative example of the view from behind the blinders.
It was reported 400% made on AAPL "calls" in 30 minutes. The ONLY way you MAKE that 400% is by selling.
LOTS of SELLING equals price drop.
Reggie predicted it, he called it, what a great team of analysts he has. Waiting of him to come out with the post letting us all know he predicted the rebalancing.
Check the minutes of the last meeting -- 'Nasdaq 5000' on 10 March 2000 -- and what happened afterward.
Like Lucy yanking the football away from Charlie Brown, they play this gag over and over on the 'stock market that was shut down by squirrels.'
Blow off top.
This sums up every stock and SPY/DIA, etc.
Some scary charts out there.
1342 is next
priced in
The new data on energy usage is out. 52 week moving average is down again. Here is 4 week moving average.
http://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=pet&s=wrpupus2&f=4
Up from last week a bit but still down about 4.6% from last year
Who would have guessed those compact fluorescent bulbs would have such a huge effect?
http://205.254.135.7/consumption/
Gag me with a tampon:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/06/09/us-obama-clinton-worldbank-idU...
iPuke!!!
What'd you expect? They'd hire Jim Grant?
LOL!
The only way Jim Grant will ever make it into the World Bank is in a UPS uniform.
What can brown do for you??
Larry Summers is also being mentioned.....super-size that tampon.
That is exactly what I was thinking that the NASDQ needed to be rebalanced so that the entire Nasdq was not just Aapl. Time to reduce Aapls percentage so just one stock can move the entire index.
The Apple Doesn't Fall Far from the Decomposed Tree
Dollar SWAP's is the new QE! Bureaucratic word games for dumb Americans.
Don't forget this could just be options X bullshit games. Too early to tell on just 1 day. And the POS was due for a pullback anyhow. 20bux is nothing on a $500 stock.
Didn't Eve also like Apple?
This is *not* what is moving the stock today - that news was out yesterday. Apparently some no name firm out of Taiwan holds the original patent to 'iPad' and so CN regulators allowed the removal of any such aapl product from shelves.
Ya, and cisco owned the name iphone. In fact I have the cisco iphone in my office somewhere. AAPL will pay them off and we can continue the AAPL march to 700
It feels like the afternoon is setting up nicely for a 3:30 rumor from the European Finance ministers conference call.
Surely somebody's going to confirm that somebody else is intending to deliver something after he intends to sign something.
Or Reuters will just reprint the samaras rumor from yesterday. Wait, wasn't he personally supposed to hand over an agreement in the morning(greek time) Hmmm should someone subpoena Reuters for their source on this one that juiced the markets by about 1%? Nah, why bother with that.
BTFD
apple is having the same problem every other u.s. corp is having.....getting their foot through the door......china is just waiting for the day they no longer need american products and american debt..........
nm
We have a winner. US cannot win a war (physical or currency) with China, so China can make their own Iproducts on their black market for 1/4 the cost. The Apple/China story is Statist, bullish shills being Statist, bullish shills. There will be some growth in China, but not what the ever optimistic analysts are projecting.
I doubt that. Although devices like tablet computers or smartphones are assembled by cheap Chinese labor they depend on parts coming from US, European, Japanese and Korean manufacturers.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semiconductor_sales_leaders_by_year#Ranking...
What's stopping China from importing semiconductors? Apple, like Walmart, squeezes the margins of suppliers and manufacturers, skewing profits toward the retail end. Why shouldn't a Chinese company compete where the real money is?
A lot of people running to the short side. Nothing is broken yet. This pig is going green again by the end of the day.
All pigs go green by the end of the day. Haven't you heard?
Mini tech Bubble about to meet a Pin.
Soon burritos will be just as important as i gadgets:
http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=cmg&ql=1
At least you can eat that investment. LMAO.
The love that dare not speak it's name.
The market is extremely overbought and bullish which means that it´ll be looking for excuses to sell. That FED statement that QE3 isn´t needed or forthcoming (has been obvious for months really) seems very welcome.
Newton Is Back As Apple Finally Falls
Funny on so many levels: http://oldcomputers.net/apple-newton.html
Kinda looks like silver from last year. Where's silver now.
Apple is one for the history books. A perfect example of a huge bubble. Watch what happens when the dominos start falling and takes Apple down with it. It will be pretty ugly.
Dropping AAPL showed the market that "there was no there there"....
parabolic moves never end well
oh shit! apple is back to where it was 2 days ago.
Apple has good stuff but I would never buy it new because it´s both overpriced and overissued. The second-hand market is therefore excellent already and I have an Ipod 4G for $150 and am waiting for Ipad 3 when I can pick up an Ipad 2 for maybe $100-150. Once these gadgets have been jailbroken they are actually quite usable.