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Apple Investors Fasten Your Seatbelts, Put on Your Crash Helmets

Started by Zach Bass · 10 months ago

What are the ingredients for a very sick market? Let’s start with the lesions on the surface, like a commodities bubble burst, total financials breakdown, anemic tech sector, and a housing fiasco. Now let’s combine that with the following deleterious symptoms like b ... Continue reading »

21 comments

  • apple star

    10 months ago

    what happened to the perfect storm for apple to pop!!!
    Lets face it your blog is a waste of my time and energy!!!
    You have no idea what the hell the market is going to do...let alone apple....
    go long day traders are half of the fing problem hear!!!
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  • marcos

    10 months ago

    I dunno, Zack. Maybe more of investor in the bewilderness.
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  • jack

    10 months ago

    If you really had balls and would put your money where your mouth is [, ie. bet real money that you actually have (not)]

    I'd bet you all you got that Apple will have a huge Xmas and next year will be even better.

    But you're just a loudmouth obnoxious fart that's in love with himself...XL head.
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  • ruby tuesday

    10 months ago

    Hey zack you are a con and will be crushed.

    Anyone ever notice that his disclosure on Appl is shot one day and long the next?

    Wise up - idiots who follow morons go over a cliff.
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  • Zach Bass

    10 months ago

    I'm a trader, not a long term investor. My time horizon is a few days to a few weeks. And as it goes, I have to call the market as I see it, and go with what it is telling me. So, right now either cash or short are the places to be.

    Why fight the market, why would you try to convince people that AAPL is fine and the market is fine, when it is not?
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  • ruby tuesday

    10 months ago

    never said the market is fine - it's not . Jerks like you that will do anything to make a buck screw it up.

    Apple is more than fine. It is the strongest company out there solid on all grounds No debt and lots of cash to maintain independence during this the credit crunch and cash to outdo all the shorting too.

    Nothing about Apple is weak - Nothing.
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  • jack

    10 months ago

    If you really had balls and would put your money where your mouth is [, ie. bet real money that you actually have (not)]

    I'd bet you all you got that Apple will have a huge Xmas and next year will be even better.

    But you're just a loudmouth obnoxious fart that's in love with himself...Xl head.
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  • Zach Bass

    10 months ago

    The only thought I could muster while reading your comment was, "How old are you?" To answer your question, I'm short, which means I have short positions. Currently I'm playing the following:

    APVUH Sep 08 140 Puts
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  • ruby tuesday

    10 months ago

    never said the market is fine - it's not . Jerks like you that will do anything to make a buck screw it up.

    Apple is more than fine. It is the strongest company out there solid on all grounds No debt and lots of cash to maintain independence during this the credit crunch and cash to outdo all the shorting too.

    Nothing about Apple is weak - Nothing. Apple will get ya...
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  • ironcross11

    10 months ago

    This has to happen periodically. The global "rules" that control capital are constantly changing so the way capital behaves changes. This is our payback for allowing risky mortgages and being unwilling to drill for our own oil. We had some good years on borrowed money and now the note has come due. We felt nice and sanctimonious about not drilling offshore malibu and in the tundra but that decision turned Russia and Venezuela into credible threats and made energy expensive and devalued the dollar.

    It's time to "cowboy up." The way out of hard times is to decide not to participate.
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  • charles

    10 months ago

    What the hell, since every one else is being negative. Do you actually make enough of a living writing this column to go vacationing, and then continue to write about your vacation like we really care. If this is your real job and you live your life with a fishing pole in your hand then I did something wrong. But then, I do get satisfaction each day knowing that I've done something worthwhile.
    O.K., maybe that's a bit harsh. But then the market sucks and we are all looking for some better guidance, not just entertainment.
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  • dennis

    10 months ago

    Profit taking in a unstable market.

    Not a really big release at the show the other day. This happened before when Apple does a mediocre revamp. I can't remember if the iTouch came out in Sept '06 but I have stated before, Apple has kinda shot itself in the foot by wanting to be a Sony Company. Personal Electronics.

    Sony did it and just kept making crap. But Apple being Apple, take it's time and produces GREAT products.
    I said 6-8 months before they announce anything really big.

    I sold at $180. I will wait and buy some after the turn of the year.

    If something big isn't coming at Mac World it might be a long cruel summer.

    for what it is worth?

    Hey let us not forget 9/11
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  • ruby tuesday

    10 months ago

    he's in the scare and profit business - honesty and satisfaction aren't in that equation . He's also a republican...
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  • ruby tuesday

    10 months ago

    zach youre going to eat shit
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  • Zach Bass

    10 months ago

    Maybe. We shall see. I think that was positive divergences on the Qs providing that pop. I also think that because the Bears were unsuccessful breaking through support, they covered their shorts.
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  • macfan

    10 months ago

    My friends...as I mentioned in several earlier posts, just as the pig races that Zach goes to see on his vacation, he is nothing more than swine chasing after an oreo cookie. He has no moral compass and will not think twice about tripping up others to try and get ahead. Just as in the pig race, the best play is to ignore his ass and run your own race.
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  • nixtr

    10 months ago

    Zach is a technical trader and is willing to change his opinion based on his calx. Why is it that the cowards like to come forward and flame people from the safety of their anonymous hovels?

    It's OK to change a position. Sentiment is like the wind. With financials in the wreck that they are, long is a short-lived concept. The fundamentals of AAPL are still fine, but it could fall to 110 on its way to 280. So what? Play it on signals or go to the beach and wait for 2010 to come to collect your 280 dollars.

    But yelling at people who are willing to give a position in an attempt to help people make money is too easy, and takes no talent.
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  • macfan

    10 months ago

    Are you guys sleeping together?
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  • macfan

    10 months ago

    I'm sorry, that was crass of me. But..c'mon. This guy is not at allabout trying to help others make moky. e charts a course and then rally's the troops to help bring his plan to fruition. I've been in this business a lon time and have seen this time and time again.
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  • macfan

    10 months ago

    I'm sorry, that was crass of me. But..c'mon. This guy is not at all about trying to help others make money. He charts a course and then rally's the troops to help bring his plan to fruition. I've been in this business a long time and have seen this time and time again.
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  • buffetthater

    10 months ago

    Well thought out, concluded article.

    My thoughts are that markets are being manipulated by unseen hands, not to sound like a
    conspiracy nut, however, Paulson was awarded a blank check with which to defend 2 failed
    GSE's. Sure, its irrational and i have no proof to offer, but i believe that money has been put
    to inflate markets.

    In 30 years of trading, the last 18 via discount brokers BTW, i have never, ever seen the repeated
    patterns of weak premarkets, followed by weak openings only to find full reversals and redemption
    to positive territory by 11:AM. Combined with other suspect patterns such as end of day/end of
    week 'stuffing' and we seem to have recidivist patterning.

    Or is everyone just guilty of watching the same TV chartists and using the same tracking and alert
    software?

    I feel you're correct, manipulated markets always end in misery. And, just because i'm paranoid does
    not make me wrong.
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