So what is the answer? Should everyone stop working and instead, just speculate on the markets?
Here in the UK, average property prices are going up at the rate of £100 a day. The average after tax wage is about £80 a day. Buy a house and quit the job???
Up nearly 5% today at 490 :D
http://techcrunch.com/2013/09/23/apples-share-price-opens-up-over-6-on-strength-of-opening-weekend-iphone-5s-and-5c-sales/
Disclosure: i bought after Icahn tweeted :D
Might be worth putting in stop limit orders rather than stops if u r planning to trade in the immediate aftermath of the announcement. I recall putting in stops at a previous time and being filled with 2 WHOLE points of slippage.