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Just as an FYI, I'm up 24% YTD with my trading account. Too many people are doom-and-gloom.

scottrade eh? i use them too. the commission is priced into each trade you do.

dumped my GM short early when the F news looked to be taken positively. bulls will be in control the next few sessions - especially with etrade and ameritrade reporting the next few days. the old-school brokers have already showed weakness in their trading divisions, i am expecting that...

you hit on an important point: expectations. earnings haven't been bad at all, in my novice opinion, analysts are to blame. If aapl has it's best quater ever, and the stock plumets, that tells me that expectations were out of line. hell, i can set arbitraty price-targets and raise them 3...

agreed. also in response to other posts, i too held positions overnight at friday's close - mostly energy, and a large GM short.

VIX shows a lot of volatility. what things need to happen for buyers to come back in? oil down below 65?

the more i read, the more it feels like a case of the old-school protecting their position; a 34-yr old hot-shot CEO is the perfect lamb for the media to slaughter. I wonder if there were any large short positions opened in the days leading up to the raid....

best.......post.....ever...!

where did you get the 25% number from? I'm not long aapl, just looking for a trade - my trade goal is compounded interest. edit: i've been trading aapl since 45.

i got too greedy: my basis was 74.20, was looking to exit at 86.80..... I will confess that I have only been an active trader for 9 months and am constantly learning. I am looking for analyst upgrades over the next week.

i lost my ass the past 4 days. aapl beat numbers big time and guided lower for the lext quarter due to new products being rolled out. why did the market react the way it has??

I was puzzled when I saw aapl beat numbers and afterhours players selling it down 7 points. Today, I'm glad those people got shaken out. Any predictions for the next few sessions? Personally, I am bullish provided there are no excuses for bears to start screaming.

nikki came back overnight and the US futures are positive. TO be honest, AAPL absorbed most of the shit last night - they beat for the current quarter and guided lower for the next and took a 7 pt. hit afterhours for it, that's just irrational and shows what kind of players are in the market...

I'm seeing more buyers coming in at 3:15 est. Anyone else have bullish signals?

I apologize for not stating my point clearly. The analyst has nothing to base his "lack of growth" assessment on except speculation. The analyst "sees growth slowing" but does not present data to substanciate his claim.

dressboy, i have to admit, the US market is absorbing a lot of the bearish sentiment from the last 48 hours. A few good earnings surprises should squeeze the shorts.

Im down 4k in the past two sessions - consolidated my portfolio into two positions: appl and amtd. There are a lot of bears out there - expect a change in setement after aapl reports after the US close today.

If you look closer it was sell orders for LiveDoor - not the entire Nikkei. (~ 4 million sell orders) If you need to know why LiveDoor was being oversold, google the company and the Ferrari-driving CEO. Take it for what it's worth, but my opinion is that the bears are looking for an excuse...

just saw S&P gave it a downgrade too. my bad.

It wasn't S&P, it was Stifel Nicolaus. They initiated coverage around 300 with a 'hold' - the analyst was on cnbc this morning and provided his logic for the downgrade: lack of growth. In all honesty, this guy is nuts. google has a monopoly on efficent on-line advertising and is just...