Evan Grey Owl

Apple's Credibility Problem

Matthew Ingram writes, ".....when the company said he wasn’t sick — and got CNBC to repeat this assertion — it was putting itself at risk of breaching SEC disclosure rules."

A violation of SEC rules would be using a blog to manipulate a stock price downward when the author has proxies shorting it, or has a conflict of interest in options contracts. Someone should initiate an investigation of this author, Matthew Ingram. Too bad the SEC is toothless.

Apple's Steve Jobs Isn't Sick - Argus

Correction:
Shenzies is what they are. And you don't want to know what that word means.

Apple's Steve Jobs Isn't Sick - Argus

If the incredibly RUDE, INVASIVE people that are OBSESSED with how many millimeters of fat is under Jobs' skin, compared to the last time their beady little vulture eyes were fixated on him, would just buzz-off, I am sure his health and morale would improve. No sane person would subject themselves to the crass and vulgar oogling of one's body that certain rude, big-mouthed "Jobs' watchers" think they have a right to engage in. Such people are no better than stalkers. Ditto the media that behave this way. Shenzi's is what they are. And you don't want to know what that world means.

Can You See Apple Under $60?

Maybe you can manipulate it down to $60 if you keep writing articles like this.
Got a fat short position? Some puts?
Are you the one who manipulated trades for $21.70 and $31.00 in late September, early October? Maybe if you keep writing articles like this, it will brain-wash people to think Apple should go to 60, and they won't notice the criminal manipulation that some people are engaged in....

I hope the SEC is watching very carefully the illegal manipulations of this stock.

Apple Earnings: What to Expect (And Who Not to Believe)

Apple believes in the Old School idea: "Never promise more than you can deliver."

Brian in Montreal: I am a newer investor and got caught off guard by the drastic fall in the market -- made worse by the "Bailout" vote debacle, political infighting, and the major media effort to drive us all off a cliff edge. My hat is off to those who knew how to use options to advantage during this time. Have you any recommendations of books or courses to learn about options? [e-mail]

Apple Earnings: What to Expect (And Who Not to Believe)

I believe that as the economy retracts and people may not be rushing to buy houses yet, and as many have experienced big losses in assets, and increasingly, jobs, a mental transformation comes about. In-between jobs is a good time to invest in oneself. Online training and courses are a large and growing industry. Ease of use of Macs gives them an edge here, as they already have in many University communities. Also, those who have to postpone big dreams because of the economy are prone to console themselves with more affordable items that help them to feel contemporary and that have an anti-depressant effect. I would predict an increase in trendy mobile phone sales, furniture and inexpensive home decorating.

As to Apple earnings and guidance, the analysts need to recognize the market environment we are in now, and stop inflating their estimates before a report. They are the ones - not the companies - that keep setting investor shareholders up for a fall. If they believe the company is worthy of investor risk, the best thing they can do is let the company's own figures guide investors, and don't jack them up before earnings. It is a fraud that long-term investors pay for heavily.

Apple Fails to Deliver, and the Rally Fizzles

Brewer - Agreed, it has been a bit of an issue about heat dissipation in laptops, but on the other hand, in cold winters in the Midwest, it is nice to hold one against your torso while watching TV, or put it on the bed where your feet go a few minutes before retiring. Double duty as a hot water bottle, so to speak.

Julian Robertson: Some Buying, but Bearish on the Economy

Until the market manipulations are stopped - comprehensively and effectively - there is no support level one can trust, and no rally that will be sustained. I do not believe it is short selling that is the problem. It is gross manipulations of the prices at the open. It is manipulation of prices down ward in the After-Market, the Pre-Market, and the Opening cross by persons or groups who hope to manipulate the opening prices by creating the illusion of sell pressure thru a pattern of obscenely low bids. It is criminals who manage to push thru obscenely low trades that trigger all the stop-loss orders unfairly, creating the illusion of sell pressure. It is those who manipulate prices down and down and down so they can impose margin calls when stocks have been manipulated so low that the client/investor/pensio... will NEVER recover. The brokers and banks seem to have solved their liquidity problems the last two weeks by emptying investors accounts under the guise of margin calls that were precipitated by rampant price manipulations. Apple at $21.70 on October 1, an $31.00 on September 30, then the Steve Jobs rumor October 3. No wonder Apple went $115 to $87 in 5 days. And RIMM $100 to $60 in less than 48 hours, on a false pretense. The POINT of the 40-50% losses is to produce the margin calls that provide cash and highly discounted shares to the brokers and banks. They saw they couldn't count on Congress, and they took it from our accounts, in the midst of a terrifying disinformation campaign. We need at least as much oversight and reform of the trading and brokerages as is needed in the banking sector.

Bulls Take a Stand - Cramer's Stop Trading! (10/10/08)

Cramer said. "If I had the power, I would move the market up right now."

Very dear Cramer, You CAN move the market up right now!!
Just stop talking. Don't come to work tomorrow, go away for a few days and do something you REALLY enjoy. Silently, very silently. Please.

Awaiting Apple Earnings and Guidance

papita,
Thank God for people like you. It is time for us to take back our markets.
We need to be researching with all means available to each of us, the illegal market manipulations that are occurring. THEY, and forced selling related to them, are what is driving prices down. Brokers encourage people to use margin loans. Some use deliberate bad low-ball bids to trigger all the stop loss orders. Then the market makers can claim justification to gap (rig, ratchet) the price WAY down, because of so many sudden sell orders. But these were not intentional sell orders. They were stop-loss orders based on the premise of an orderly market. There is no orderly market now- only a highly manipulated one. The brokerages are backed by large banks that need cash. The appear to be "looking the other way" because plummeting prices allow them to suddenly call margins loans in. The stock has been reduced in value 50%, for example, on purpose, so the brokers/banks can grab our money based on hugely and artificially devalued stock prices. They retain the stock in "street name", ans will soon enjoy all the upside, while those who used margin and didn't se the train coming suddenly have no equity - only debt!! If everyone quit using stop loss orders temporarily, and avoided margin, it would not be worth their while to do this. Shareholders, not "other" taxpayers, have already paid Wall Street many times over the Bailout amount. The percent losses occurring in stocks are calculated and engineered- not the result of any free market process. Haven't you noticed the complete lack of association between any earnings, and the rug suddenly being pulled out? The earnings are just used for disinformation/misinfo... purposes to hide what is really going on.
It is an improper taking of property from shareholders who are not sophisticated enough to know what was happening. Highway robbery.
People need to demand the S.E.C. stop the artificial manipulations that are occurring, immediately.

Research in Motion Takes Hit from Component Costs and Dollar, Hints at New Product

They (RIMM, AAPL) still serve somewhat different niches and there is plenty of room in the world for both "bests". The adoption of their mobile products is a world-changing kind of phenomenon ; perhaps we should concentrate on the use of such products to improve lives, rather than get ill over a 1 cent discrepancy in earnings.

If one cent means so much, should I be investing in Copper?