benfromchicago

SpamSandwich said:

benfromchicago said:

I used to think AAPL stock manipulation was just conspiracy theory but now I am a firm believer,. 

Would you ever trust a broker who tells you "I recommend you buying this stock that I think will go down 10%"? 

All these "analysts" are nothing but front by stock traders/hedge funds to create artificial short and buy back strategy.  Their opinion has nothing to deal with facts.  And you bet none of them has their own money in the game. 

Every individual acts in their own self-interest all the time. This is a given. Having said that, it should be understood that we are all “manipulators” in some sense.

I am not a manipulator.  I do not publish report that the major news network pick it up and put it as headline on financial news so that every investor can read and trade off it. What Zhang, Business Insider, Mark Gurman, Nikkei et, al. had done is totally insidious and they should all be indicted. 

As of now (10;25 am CT), S&P is down .3% while AAPL is up .86%.  So Jun Zhang customers should be happy dumping the stock at below Friday closing price on opening today /heavy sarcasm. 

I used to think AAPL stock manipulation was just conspiracy theory but now I am a firm believer,. 

Would you ever trust a broker who tells you "I recommend you buying this stock that I think will go down 10%"? 

All these "analysts" are nothing but front by stock traders/hedge funds to create artificial short and buy back strategy.  Their opinion has nothing to deal with facts.  And you bet none of them has their own money in the game. 

Meanwhile, earlier today another supplier Skyworks Solutions released lower than expected estimate.  And I quote: 

"...Analyst Kumar said the guidance was "really not that bad" as investors expected much worse because of soft trends at Apple."

Say what?  "Soft trends at Apple"????? Did this guy from Piper Jeffrey sleep through the entire earnings report and call two days ago? 

The narrative on the street is that iPhone demand is in sharp decline and X is a miserable failure. That sell side crowd simply refuses to believe in evidence.  They just continue their narrative as if Tim Cook conference call were in another universe.

It is good to see Uncle Warren being the ultimate value seeker here and ignoring all the garbage from the sell side. 

Apple is doomed no matter whether the Chinese smart phone makers succeed or not /heavy sarcasm.

I have read so much FUD about Apple in the last 5 years that I cease to read certain sources.  The Verge against Apple?  What's new?  The Register (of UK), Brian Chen of NYT, Shira Ovide of Bloomberg, etc.  The list keeps getting longer and longer.

I am a finance guy.  The reason I think that there are so many hit pieces is because it is profitable to short Apple and then buy it back after the rumor hit the news media.  It won't work for Amazon because that stock keeps going up.  But Apple stock is really susceptible to this type of FUD manipulation.  Hence we see all these stupid pundit rumormongering.