Wish you all personal and financial good tidings.
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DJIA made it all the way to the big resistance of 12,280 as expected and even bit over. I still believe we are going higher and will have nice breakout above 12,280 either next week or at the beginning of January 2012. Having stochastic above 80% could mean we may pull back a bit for few days or it may go for breakout right away. We’ll see. December panned out quite nice so far.
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Bunratty
Yes, nice low volume rally. For AAPL, RSI is high and stock price approaching upper BB. I sold some options just in case there is a sizable pullback before earnings rally.
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“There is basically no way to build a smartphone that doesn’t infringe on someone else’s patents, either knowingly or unknowingly, because there are simply too many of them, intellectual property experts say. What a company must do is prevent any obvious infringements in areas that are essential to the platform’s functionality, and amass a patent portfolio so large that lawsuits can be met with something more than empty words. “Basically it’s all-out war and you come to the war with your stacks of patents, and Google didn’t have as much as the other companies. That’s why it’s being hurt today,” Carrier said.
With Android becoming mainstream before Google amassed enough patents to protect it, the company tried to solve the problem by waving money at it. Google’s attempts to buy the patent portfolio from bankrupt Nortel failed, with a consortium including Apple, Microsoft, and RIM putting together the winning package of $4.5 billion. Stymied, Google decided to buy Motorola Mobility and its portfolio of 17,000 patents worldwide, for a premium price of $12.5 billion.”
Read the whole thing…
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Here we go again…..
http://www.thestreet.com/story/11355084/1/putting-a-future-value-on-apple.html
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conshmillo
I am not big at earnings estimates, but what I don’t understand is how someone can say without any reasoning whatsoever that over the next five years, Apple’s growth rate will not come close to 70%. I do not know either way, but someone just pulls that assumption out of their ass and then bases rest of the calculations on it. What if Apple takes 20% of Microsoft business in next five years. What if Google’s Android ends up as Blackberry. What if every family in 2016 will have something called smart TV and Apple will have 40% of that market. All hypotheticals, but point is how someone knows there will not be 70% growth for Apple. And I’m not eve saying it will.
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rastard
Well, the investors amongst us want people to listen to this tool, so that we get the opportunity to buy more AAPL at $300.
Just out of curiosity, do you have the same problem with people who assert over the next 5 years, Apple *will* have 70% growth?
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Bunratty
There are several well-informed individuals who think such a growth rate can be sustained. It is the WS analysts who simply cannot get their heads around this disruption concept. To state that an ‘ideal’ entry point for AAPL to be around 300 (with a tacit suggestion that the stock price will drop 25% any time soon) is puerile. To throw out a 10% growth rate in such a cowboy fashion is inept.
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conshmillo
No, and here is why. Althought I do not sit on anything for 5 years, I base my shorter term decisions on technicals. That is you take data for most recent past, any data, do moving average on them and then you can estimate based on the result what’s going on. In this instance, I would like to see what at the minimum 5 data points for growth are (one for each year). If toward the last data point compared to previous ones tendency is decrease, I would find out how much this decreasing tendency perceptually is compared to previous years. If I saw decreasing tendency over past few most recent data point I could see how much and base my prediction for next year on that. This guy didn’t do any of that. He just pulled the number out of his ass.
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Nicu
I analyzed exactly this perception problem and made a 5 year prediction here
http://seekingalpha.com/article/315207-apple-analysts-perpetually-clueless
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Market will be closed Monday, December 26, 2011 and Monday, January 2, 2012.
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How a paradigm shift can make a colossus irrelevant.
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rastard
Damn. Android copying the iPhone again.
http://money.cnn.com/2010/07/15/technology/iphone_beta/index.htm
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Birra
You just lack class.
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rastard
This, coming from the guy who repeatedly posts [typically clueless] articles bashing anyone/anything that competes with Apple. Pot, meet kettle.
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SB
this would have been a better article to reference (for both of you).
http://www.anandtech.com/show/5254/investigating-the-galaxy-nexus-lte-signal-issue
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rastard
Thanks. I’d seen that and considered posting it, but since factual data tends to not influence the OP, I opted for a link pointing out hypocrisy instead.
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Potsie Webber
Anyone/anything that competes with Apple should be bashed “with extreme prejudice”.
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For my Android friends.
http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/11/12/21/android_device_activations_reach_700000_per_day.html
Bunratty 10:17 pm on December 25, 2011 42 days ago Reply
Thanks Birra…Happy Holidays to you too and other TH members.
p.s. hope u r enjoying yr “apple/non-android car”!