Quote from blowingup2012:
Let me ask you some questions.
1) The United Kingdom is officially in a recession today after a bad GDP report. The US will report their GDP on Friday. Here is a historical chart of the GDP year over year in bar format. Looking at this chart and knowing that other countries are either reporting weakened GDP or negative GDP, what do you expect the next bar to be?
2) Apple has a few runaway gaps in the past which have not filled, however, this is a large gap. Is their more risk going short at this level with a stop at 644 for a 5% loss or going long and setting a stop at 555 for a 9% loss? Keep in mind during the last 3 years Apple has routinely traded up against either the 20 day or 200 day moving average.
3) How much risk is going long either BIDU or DANG? BIDU is the #1 website in China and DANG is #86. Apple just completed a call where they said growth in China is incredible. BIDU is now 2 standard deviations away from the 20 day and DANG is right on the 20 day. I do think that DANG could be more oversold then it is, but for some reason its hanging on that 20 day. However, I do not believe BIDU could get any more oversold.
So lets dispense with the emotion and go with probability.