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I wanna buy some Apple stocks

nublikescake

nublikescake

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As much as I hate the rabid fanbois, I wanna make me some $$$. :sneaky: So as soon as I heard that his Highness Steve Jobs is taking time off again, I knew this was a good time to invest. But I don't know the abc's of stock-trading. Anyone wanna help me out? Can I do this without seeking the services of a stockbroker?

So buy some stocks now and then sell when iPhone 5/iPad 2 or the next i-XXX comes out...sounds like a plan?
 
As long as you realize that the stock isn't going to magically skyrocket the day the iPhone 5 comes out, because that's not how it works.
 
too late. Even if it goes to $400 (the high end projection in the next 12 months), you'd be making $65/share...unless you can by 1000+ shares, it aint worth it.
 
The main problem is that you missed the boat. Apple's shares went from about $90/share in 2009 to about $340 a share now. It has gone up 3.7x without any real fundamental change at Apple. About the only thing you can list that is new since then is the iPad which with 80+ competitors won't be able to stay strong for long.

What Apple stock holders are banking on now is that their App store will stay king. Over the next couple of years: probably. But long term, we've seen many other giants fall. Apple has no inherant advantage there - other than being the biggest at the moment.

You even missed the buying opportunity today. Sure, their stock fell 5.3% this morning. But it has gained much of that back already.
 
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dullard said:
The main problem is that you missed the boat. Apple's shares went from about $90/share in 2009 to about $340 a share now. It has gone up 3.7x without any real fundamental change at Apple. About the only thing you can list that is new since then is the iPad which with 80+ competitors won't be able to stay strong for long.

What Apple stock holders are banking on now is that their App store will stay king. Over the next couple of years: probably. But long term, we've seen many other giants fall. Apple has no inherant advantage there - other than being the biggest at the moment.

You even missed the buying opportunity today. Sure, their stock fell 5.3% this morning. But it has gained much of that back already.
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You destroyed all hopes I had of investing in this. I guess that's what I get for being a nerdy engineer. 🙁 Simply don't have the time or the knowledge to learn the ropes to become an informed trader.
 
nublikescake said:
You destroyed all hopes I had of investing in this. I guess that's what I get for being a nerdy engineer. 🙁 Simply don't have the time or the knowledge to learn the ropes to become an informed trader.
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Buy something you have a personal interest in. Don't think about it. It's a long term investment. Apple probably wouldn't be the best stock to buy for that.
 
ChAoTiCpInOy said:
What do you mean by that?
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I mean pretty much exactly what I said. I look at Apple and I don't see anything truely new that came out since 2009. For example, the iPhone has been around since 2007 and the 3G version since 2008. Nothing fundamentally new there. Their only change was an incremental change: making the iPhone larger and calling it an iPad. Sure, that gave them a temporary boost in sales. But with 80 other tablets out there, I doubt that Apple has truely created a fundamental new market that they didn't have in 2009 when their stock was $90 a share.

I personally think Apple is fairly priced somewhere in the upper $200s. But then they need a true new market or they risk being the next AOL or the next Myspace.

I may be wrong. Apple may reach $1000 a share like I've heard some people say. But then, you have to realise that at that price, Apple's market capitalization would be equal to 7% of the entire US GDP. I just don't personally see it being truely worth that much.
 
If that little baby in the e-trade commericals can trade stocks from his ipad... I am sure you can figure it out.
 
market is a bit high right now, not a good time to buy any big stock...

go to local scottrade and do it, everything else will take days....
 
Back when I was in high school, my marketing class (for some reason) set up an account on this fake stock trading website where they gave you money ($50,000) to invest and see how it fluctuated over the year.

At the time, GOOG was at about $70-80 in 2004. Now, look at it...600+. What a mistake.
 
dullard said:
The main problem is that you missed the boat. Apple's shares went from about $90/share in 2009 to about $340 a share now. It has gone up 3.7x without any real fundamental change at Apple. About the only thing you can list that is new since then is the iPad which with 80+ competitors won't be able to stay strong for long.

What Apple stock holders are banking on now is that their App store will stay king. Over the next couple of years: probably. But long term, we've seen many other giants fall. Apple has no inherant advantage there - other than being the biggest at the moment.

You even missed the buying opportunity today. Sure, their stock fell 5.3% this morning. But it has gained much of that back already.
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What the hell are you smoking?

Does the iPad ring a bell?
 
Patranus said:
What the hell are you smoking?

Does the iPad ring a bell?
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ipad hardly had anything to do with apples meteoric rise from early 09

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dullard said:
I've already discussed the oversized iphone with 80+ other tablets on the market in this thread.
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Wait, so Apple hasn't don't anything since 2009 but released a game changing market leader in the iPad.

I can't wait for Apples financials to be released.
 
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