AAPL of my eye

Keith speaking at the Vancouver MoneyShow

I’ll be speaking in Vancouver at the World MoneyShow on Tuesday March 24, 2012 at 1:30pm. I’ll be presenting my current views on the market and offering portfolio trading ideas.

Apple

Apple (AAPL) recently hit the half – trillion dollar market capitalization level. An interesting study by www.sentimentrader.com presents the coinciding broader market movements after history’s other $500BB superstar stocks hit this market cap. As you will note, when a company joins this very exclusive club, it often signals an eventual correction for the broader markets.

Budding technical analyst Gogi Grewal notes a longer termed trend for AAPL stock. Normally we should draw an up sloping trendline tracing successive troughs. But we’ve drawn our trendline by connecting the peaks in this example. We can see on the chart below that there has been a predictable upper trendline where AAPL has formed prior peaks. Perhaps, given AAPL’s runaway performance and overbought momentum, it may be time for the worlds most admired technology company to take a breather.

CFA wanted

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