You have to laugh… now CNBC are saying “Black Friday isn’t necessarily indicative of what happens this season.” In other words, after shrieking about how today would “set the tone for the rest of the year” all week, they’re now trying to talk down the significance of a strong weekend and playing up fears that sales will be weak regardless of what happens.

Bloody nay-saying fear-mongering scum.

I wonder when CNBC manage to mention the Zune again?

(OMFG I can’t believe it.. he managed to do it again as I was typing that! Does he get paid-per-mention of something? Lol - too funny!)

[quote author=“Tommo_UK”]
I wonder when CNBC manage to mention the Zune again?

(OMFG I can’t believe it.. he managed to do it again as I was typing that! Does he get paid-per-mention of something? Lol - too funny!)

Bet MS pays him in Zune 80’s.   

[quote author=“sstenner”][quote author=“Tommo_UK”]
I wonder when CNBC manage to mention the Zune again?
(OMFG I can’t believe it.. he managed to do it again as I was typing that! Does he get paid-per-mention of something? Lol - too funny!)

Bet MS pays him in Zune 80’s.   

No no no.. he’ll be paid in Zune Marketplace Points  

10 minutes to go. anybody else putting on new last-minute positions?

[quote author=“JimDE”]10 minutes to go. anybody else putting on new last-minute positions?

I’m still looking for the right one for tonight

Ahem.. no, I’m doing nutin’ til next week. If there had been a sell-off I’d have bought though.

Edit: Oh boy look at the scum come out trying to sell-off into the close in literally the final few minutes… what a crock of…

[quote author=“Tommo_UK”][quote author=“JimDE”]10 minutes to go. anybody else putting on new last-minute positions?

I’m still looking for the right one for tonight

Ahem.. no, I’m doing nutin’ til next week. If there had been a sell-off I’d have bought though.

Edit: Oh boy look at the scum come out trying to sell-off into the close in literally the final few minutes… what a crock of…

nice emphatic recovery at the end. indices & gold showing similar selloff / recovery patterns at the end.

Good weekend to one and all. Ciao.

[quote author=“JimDE”][quote author=“Tommo_UK”][quote author=“JimDE”]10 minutes to go. anybody else putting on new last-minute positions?

I’m still looking for the right one for tonight

Ahem.. no, I’m doing nutin’ til next week. If there had been a sell-off I’d have bought though.

Edit: Oh boy look at the scum come out trying to sell-off into the close in literally the final few minutes… what a crock of…

nice emphatic recovery at the end. indices & gold showing similar selloff / recovery patterns at the end.

Hopefully speaks well for next week if the selloffs are met with recovery and resistance. Though I’m sure if they’d pushed harder with a selloff they could have done some real damage.

Thanks for sharing and please keep us posted on what you end up doing today!

OK Got filled on my Jan 09 250 calls at $18.20- $18.50 and most of them in the last 5 minutes

Thanks for sharing and please keep us posted on what you end up doing today!

OK Got filled on my Jan 09 250 calls at $18.20- $18.50 and most of them in the last 5 minutes

Thanks, SNIPUS, appreciate your willingness to share.

[quote author=“SNIPUS”]
OK Got filled on my Jan 09 250 calls at $18.20- $18.50 and most of them in the last 5 minutes

Those 200 the last 2 minutes ?  Or those 27 before ?

Re: AAPL Intraday Updates

[quote author=“Tommo_UK”]You have to laugh… now CNBC are saying “Black Friday isn’t necessarily indicative of what happens this season.” In other words, after shrieking about how today would “set the tone for the rest of the year” all week, they’re now trying to talk down the significance of a strong weekend and playing up fears that sales will be weak regardless of what happens.

As I’ve said in other topics , I don’t think anything useful can be determined from Friday and the weekend sales data. There are far too many variables at play and journalists should know better. My concern for Monday trading is this incessant
preoccupation with retail sales number that will mean absolutely nothing by the end of the holiday shopping season.

Re: AAPL Intraday Updates

[quote author=“DawnTreader”][quote author=“Tommo_UK”]You have to laugh… now CNBC are saying “Black Friday isn’t necessarily indicative of what happens this season.” In other words, after shrieking about how today would “set the tone for the rest of the year” all week, they’re now trying to talk down the significance of a strong weekend and playing up fears that sales will be weak regardless of what happens.

As I’ve said in other topics , I don’t think anything useful can be determined from Friday and the weekend sales data. There are far too many variables at play and journalists should know better. My concern for Monday trading is this incessant
preoccupation with retail sales number that will mean absolutely nothing by the end of the holiday shopping season.

I agree it is meaningless to Apple however not to the market in general as black friday was above expectations so the market should open up and AAPL could gap over $172

Re: AAPL Intraday Updates

[quote author=“SNIPUS”] . . . .  as black friday was above expectations so the market should open up and AAPL could gap over $172

I like this persons logic . . .

Friday night on the news ‘experts’ were saying they didn’t expect consumers to spend this Black Friday due to the hight cost of oil and the housing slump. Today on the news we learned that Black Friday was 8.5% larger in spending than the same day last year. No figures yet on the weekend’s tally, but it seems totally logical to me for AAPL to gap up 8.5% on Monday.

Re: AAPL Intraday Updates

[quote author=“SNIPUS”][quote author=“DawnTreader”][quote author=“Tommo_UK”]You have to laugh… now CNBC are saying “Black Friday isn’t necessarily indicative of what happens this season.” In other words, after shrieking about how today would “set the tone for the rest of the year” all week, they’re now trying to talk down the significance of a strong weekend and playing up fears that sales will be weak regardless of what happens.

As I’ve said in other topics , I don’t think anything useful can be determined from Friday and the weekend sales data. There are far too many variables at play and journalists should know better. My concern for Monday trading is this incessant
preoccupation with retail sales number that will mean absolutely nothing by the end of the holiday shopping season.

I agree it is meaningless to Apple however not to the market in general as black friday was above expectations so the market should open up and AAPL could gap over $172

I think the info is meaningless not only to Apple but meaningless in general. In terms of its impact on the market, my concern is the media will be treating holiday sales activity as if it were a presidential race with daily reports about trends (or apparent trends) that don’t matter, aren’t real and will have no real gauge of the shopping season until the season is over. AAPL will be caught up in all of the news gyrations.

AAPL belongs well over $180 per share IMHO. We’ll see if the market moves it higher regardless of the broader market’s activity. No matter what the major retailers report in terms of YOY sales gains or losses, the Apple retail stores will be seeing higher traffic, higher sales and higher ASPs than last year.