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MediumTex wrote: My last Apple trade involved a buy at $240 and a quick sale when it hit $260.  At the time I felt like a genius...but then I watched it go to $700 and I didn't feel quite as smart.  :-\
Don't feel too bad. I felt like a genius when my AAPL shares hit $700... only to watch the price tumble below $400 mere months later.
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did you mean to write something else that second time, PS?
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Oops. I meant to edit the initial post to correct a grammar error. Derp.
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MediumTex wrote: I bought some this morning at $395.99.
I bet you're happy right now.

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Pointedstick wrote:
MediumTex wrote: I bought some this morning at $395.99.
I bet you're happy right now.

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Buying below $400 a share was a pretty easy call.

With that nice dividend coming in, it's a great investment all the way around.
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Do you think that you owe Carl Icahn a steak dinner at the very least?
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Reub wrote: Do you think that you owe Carl Icahn a steak dinner at the very least?
Do you owe the rooster a steak because the sun rises?
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Everyone's a genius in a bull market. :P
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It's been almost a month since anyone posted anything in the stock section of the forum?

That's really weird.  I guess it means that the stock market has been exceptionally boring recently.

What a change from a few years ago.
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How about that Apple dropping $3.2bn on an overrated headphone company? 
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Tyler wrote: How about that Apple dropping $3.2bn on an overrated headphone company?
Something to do with the Mog streaming service perhaps, but it *is* weird. Well, it's 2% of their total.
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I believe they were buying Dr. Dre. 

Apple buys people, generally speaking.  They are very concerned about having high-quality, in fact top, elite-quality people.  Apple considers themselves highly resource-constrained.  How so, having billions of dollars?  The resource they are constrained by is people.

For some reason, they consider Dr. Dre, and/or perhaps others on his team, to be A-list player(s).
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LC475 wrote: For some reason, they consider Dr. Dre, and/or perhaps others on his team, to be A-list player(s).
I'd say its more that they want Millenial diversity catchet.  Millenials are suckers for marketing fiction on top of being among the world's most guillible consumers.
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