AAPL

NotGucci

I feel like market is going hit ATM by end of this week. AAPL+AMZN+SMCI, and Dovish Powell --> easily back to 525.

FtotheA_IV

AAPL sold a @ 90 from 45 before any splits

mcnealstash

All of these companies have shit governance. Your capital has time value to it- and right now these companies are very inefficient capital allocators because they give out so much stock based comp to their managers and employees. Returns on capital are still negative for PLTR and CRWD- which are arguably the two best of this list from a product and competitive perspective. Until these company's governance improves to the point where it actually aligns with shareholder interests there is no point parking your capital in these businesses you aren't effectively missing anything no matter how much the market price may go up or down in the near term. You'd be better off buying other names in tech that have long histories of efficient capital allocation along with growing dividends and share buybacks- AAPL, MSFT, GOOGL are all good examples of companies that are actually creating value at the equity stakeholder level.

drewstake

AAPL calls

CEOofBeanz

I have $11k in AAPL 185 May 17. I’m cooked

gbninjaturtle

AAPL is eventually going to moon It’s inevitable I just hope I can make enough to put it all in AAPL in time before it goes nuts

itssobeefy

No idea but AAPL has been sideways for some time now. I’m hoping earnings and the event the 7th helps get AAPL past $180 and beings the journey to $200.

itssobeefy

Down 11k on my AAPL calls that expire 6/21. Need an absolute miracle

Relative_Wallaby1108

AAPL will be 200+ this time next year. Remind me.

stockbetss

AAPL meta and for small cap my fav rivian . It should be a neutral day we had 2 Green Day’s

JangoDjarin

It's all about the guidance. Any kind of positive outlook will make the stock moon. AAPL is ripe for a nice god- candle.

baeconundeggz

Gee who woulda thunk it... more 'fake verse' headsets are being returned to AAPL stores...

BurgerKing_Fuccs

AAPL 5/18 165P x25

dprzybyl

For real. AAPL gonna TSLA.

BurgerKing_Fuccs

AAPL u better not fuck me over. Pls I need this 

estivalsoltice

OMG OMG... next week is gonna be ER's for AMD, AAPL, SOFI, AMZN. Have you bought lubes yet?

Hold_my_beef

AAPL one is low

1600hazenstreet

Will AAPL moon AR?  

breakyourteethnow

SOFI calls into AMZN & AMD calls, into DKNG and AAPL calls Next week PLTR & HOOD. - Never buy puts long term it's losing game.

Alone_Ad2930

So why would both AMD and AAPL go down, you contradicted your self like a true regard

ValuableMiddle378

!Banbet AAPL $185

3ebfan

AAPL, AMD and AMZN are going to say something during earnings that make NVDA pump

ACiD_80

$SBUX puts (union troubles, coffee prises rising, cacao prices rising even more) Its €6.4 for a cup of starbucks coffee over here... they must be losing customers with those silly prices while people are starting to feel the economic pain and being more picky with their spending. $AMZN calls $AAPL puts ... vision pro didnt sell well.. cancelling of their electric cars... china sales down by a lot, them trying to slowly move manufacturing out of china. And long term (regular shares or leaps); load up on INTC stock. Good luck

pinghing

Too many plays for this week. SMCI AMD SPY for Tuesday AAPL

WirelessRanger

I just have been buying shares of META, MSFT, AAPL, and AMAT. I buy weekly calls/puts on XLK because it’s pretty easy to see which way the tech sector is trending

Admiring-Nobel

8 AAPL shares at $27 bought in 2015. I have increased the position since.

3ebfan

What’s the bull case for AAPL? Seems like there’s way more short term downside potential than there is upside

Scrogwiggle

Just received my 56k IRA transfer to RH 🤡. Monday I buy 100 AAPL (17k), 55 SPY (30k), and 9k into QQQ 440-450 Jan Calls.

warlock22041

AAPL will play like TSLA bad earnings already priced in

Sudden_Toe3020

Impressive! GOOG up 3500% since it went public. If you had $10k to invest in Google when it went public... you should have put it in AAPL, then you'd be up 14,000%. https://imgur.com/TpnCdXu

applemasher

AAPL was the first stock I ever bought fresh out of uni. I had a good return, but after Steve Jobs died I was thinking it had already had a huge run up and sold it.

Money_Music_6964

AAPL had fallen from the 80’s to the 50’s…dad says “you better sell”… I did…dumbass mistake…bought back in at a lower price, own 22K shares now, cost basis of 30…

Mahadragon

"Apple was a one trick pony and it was done once people get tired of iPhones." You're not too far off and I'm the biggest Apple fan boy there is. Have every device Apple makes including their AirPort Extreme Routers and Airport Express streaming devices. Warren Buffett is going to discover that putting 50% of your portfolio into AAPL in 2024 might be a bad idea. They haven't had an insanely great product since iPhone.

Katnisshunter

I want to believe how AAPL is going to win when war with China. Explain.

WiseIndustry2895

AAPL stop. that shit won’t make your stock pop

Feeling_Efficiency93

AAPL calls. Peace, war or armageddon, people love their shitty macs

AP9384629344432

Find it a bit odd that you are so bullish you'd be buying every dip but you'd consider selling just 12% higher than your cost basis. Think there's far more for it to go up from here given the margins / growth and the fact its current multiple is basically inline with the S&P 500. Why cap your returns? I'd personally sell it all only if/when the multiple gets unreasonable, say 28x-30x. (Which is roughly when I sold out of AAPL, for instance, in the $190s).

strict_positive

>The purpose of a buyback is NEVER to cancel the shares. That is exactly the purpose of a buyback. Here is a chart of Apple's shares since 2012. As you can see their share count dropped by \~42% over that period. [https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/AAPL/apple/shares-outstanding](https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/AAPL/apple/shares-outstanding) The shares become treasury shares when they buy them back and then they can either issue as stock based comp, cancel them etc. >That would be an absolutely massive hit on the balance sheet otherwise and would not be beneficial to the corporation at all Here's a quote from Warren Buffet explaining the benefit of buy backs: [https://www.berkshirehathaway.com/2022ar/2022ar.pdf](https://www.berkshirehathaway.com/2022ar/2022ar.pdf) *A very minor gain in per-share intrinsic value took place in 2022 through Berkshire share repurchases as well as similar moves at Apple and American Express, both significant investees of ours. At Berkshire, we directly increased your interest in our unique collection of businesses by repurchasing 1.2% of the company’s outstanding shares. At Apple and Amex, repurchases increased Berkshire’s ownership a bit without any cost to us.* *The math isn’t complicated: When the share count goes down, your interest in our many businesses goes up. Every small bit helps if repurchases are made at value-accretive prices. Just as surely, when a company overpays for repurchases, the continuing shareholders lose. At such times, gains flow only to the selling shareholders and to the friendly, but expensive, investment banker who recommended the foolish purchases.* *Gains from value-accretive repurchases, it should be emphasized, benefit all owners – in every respect. Imagine, if you will, three fully-informed shareholders of a local auto dealership, one of whom manages the business. Imagine, further, that one of the passive owners wishes to sell his interest back to the company at a price attractive to the two continuing shareholders. When completed, has this transaction harmed anyone? Is the manager somehow favored over the continuing passive owners? Has the public been hurt?* *When you are told that all repurchases are harmful to shareholders or to the country, or particularly beneficial to CEOs, you are listening to either an economic illiterate or a silver-tongued demagogue (characters that are not mutually exclusive).*

brokeazmofo

It is a strategy called straddle, but it has to move up or down twice as much in either direction for you to make money. For example AAPL is around 170, May 17 170 calls and puts are around 4.60. So if you just bought a call it would need to go up 3% by May 17 for you to make money, if you just bought a put, it would need to go down 3% for you to make money. If you do a straddle, it would need to go up OR down 6% for you to make money. A move in either direction less than 6% and you lose ALL your money.

YetAnotherRando

Also $AAPL: earnings coming soon and sales down

SabadoDomingos

I suggested to my dad and boss to put 10% of their wealth on AAPL in 2003. I put my ~60k into my own startup instead. Made about 400-500k or so off of it, but not 60k * infinity if I'd just put it on AAPL myself, lol.

ThinkingOfTheOldDays

I wonder if AAPL will raise their dividend on this quarterly announcement. 

HotColdDinner

AAPL Call 185 

TikTokYourLifeAway

Had 80k of AAPL in 2003, sold it all for a few thousand gain, missed out on.. tens of millions

Hold_my_beef

AMD AAPL  AMZN COIN flat SMCI  MSTR flat  CVNA 

Last-Product6425

No. The stock market will still function 9:30AM to 4PM EST. Pre market and after market will be extended. Options will function in the same manner. Technically you can trade stocks all the way from 4AM to 6PM if you wanted, but you risk terrible price execution if you do it outside of 9:30AM to 4PM. Everything stays the same, it just means you can buy AAPL shares with an insane spread at 2AM if you really want to and then wonder why the fk you took a 5% loss instantly, only to realize you dont understand illiquidity spreads during low volume times. (Hint: when you buy during low liquidity time frames like pre market and after hours, your bid/ask spread is going to be insane, sometimes as wide as 20-50 cents depending on the stock you're trading. And if you buy 100 shares of XYZ, you instantly lose the spread difference x number of shares cause your order will be hitting the ask. Learn about premarket and after hour trading to understand how stupid it is to get excited about 24/7 trading.

SMK_12

~9 years ago I was 19 and in college. Was interested in all nerdy tech things. Opened a robinhood account and would frequent reddit investing subs and heard about AMD and NVDA so I bought some. Loved Apple products so I bought AAPL. Was a musk fan boy so bought Tesla stock, then heard about Bitcoin and bought a bit through binance and then coinbase. Only problem was I thought I was smart and rather than just buy and hold I tried frequently trading and missed out huge on most of the gains. That and I was only making a couple hundred bucks a week so in total only had a few thousand to invest with. Now I own a lot of the same but my cost basis is significantly higher because it took me years to realize just buy and hold. I’m doing well but I could’ve had many times more money than I do now if all I had done was just buy and looked away from the screen.

Naiehybfisn374

I had a decent chunk of AAPL that I had since before the iPhone came out and I am not a multimillionaire because I sold it all well before it blew up for real. It did help me buy a home so can't really complain too much, but like it's one thing to regret not buying something at all, it's another thing to know you *had it* but cashed out too early where the difference was between "help buy a home" and "retire early outright"

raybadman

You can do this on stocks as well. Here is 13% on AAPL [https://optionstrat.com/build/custom/AAPL/.AAPL250620C50,.AAPL250620P205,-.AAPL250620C225](https://optionstrat.com/build/custom/AAPL/.AAPL250620C50,.AAPL250620P205,-.AAPL250620C225)

nrsxvi

AAPL CALLS!!!! 

-JPowsMoneyPrinter-

If ETFs are your strategy then I would just long SPY for long term growth. So much overlapping, why worry? Personally I would enter using CSP. When the market is choppy I would sell short term CC to add to your holdings. Basically wheeling the ETF. However, this is WSB. We want to see you liquidate your portfolio and throw it all on AAPL puts with max leverage.

bmp5046

Damn, AAPL never does their own innovation lol

Zealousideal-Day5903

AAPL call play for earnings this Thursday

NativeTxn7

Bought AAPL circa 2002/2003 - 100 shares at $14/share. Sold it about a year later after it had doubled. If I had never touched it, after the splits over the years. I’d be sitting on 5,600 shares worth about $950,000.

mrmrmrj

In March 2009 I received a large guaranteed bonus I had negotiated when I joined the firm in early 2008. There was carnage in so many stocks I could not make up my mind which few to buy so I just put it in a general mutual fund. It did fine but I could have bought AAPL, GOOG, AMZN, pretty much any major tech company and done 10x better.

TulioGonzaga

Back in 2011, I was in my final years in college and met an older guy who was heavily invested in AAPL. He was older than me, had a solid career and decided to go back to college to finish his then incomplete graduation. We worked together and became friends. It was the first time that I had contact with the stock market and became aware of the opportunities it offers. I'm from Portugal and the stock market is weak here and people are suspicious of investing, financial literacy is low but fortunately that is changing with newer generations. Anyway, long story short, I was taught, I had the opportunity but hadn't the money to invest in AAPL. At that time, considering the splits, the stock was around 12$. I was a broke student with barely no money but if had some things differently, could have been buying here and there. Today I would have more money than I have, for sure.

gnocchicotti

That's like saying buying AAPL in 2014 would have been too late and there were no more gains to be had

BigBoobsAreDahhBest

Here’s what I do: Taxable: - ETF’s: 85% VTI and 15% SCHG (pump 100% of my paycheck into these two ETF’s every 2 weeks. Make sure you have a good emergency fund and no debt before doing this). - Stocks: AAPL, MSFT, GOOG, NVDA, AMAT, and COST (bought over 10 years ago, only added in 2020 and haven’t touched since). Retirement (401K and HSA): - 90% VTI and 10% VXUS

ACiD_80

AMZN calls , AAPL puts

Lost-Practice-5916

Buffett always has cash. He calls it oxygen. Even when he said stocks were "dirt cheap" in 2019 he had a lot of cash. He has a rule though that he never has more than 20% cash ever. He's been buying back BRK and it has a market cap around $800B. While Buffett unloaded some AAPL in the 190s. He also purchased a lot in the 150s and 160s. And now AAPL has fallen to 160s again. AAPL still is represents extraordinary 50% of his portfolio. So even by your logic, Buffett prefers to be largely invested.

keithosu

I had $500 in AAPL in 1999. Before the iPod. It would now be worth $123,500. A growth of 25,000% over 25 years. I was young and dumb and needed the cash. Ugh.

ACiD_80

AMZN calls , AAPL puts

Upstairs-Bicycle-703

Is AR/VR just like… Beat Saber and maybe 2 other games/tools that are kinda cool for max an hour? Or am I missing something? Really confused on what META and AAPL were spending billions on.

3ebfan

AAPL down LLY down AMD up NVO up

ConstantGeographer

Apple is probably mine, too. I remember reading Wall Street Journal when I was in high school, about 1984 or 1985 and asking my dad, 'How do we buy stock?' He gave me some answer about needing money, needing a broker, it was too expensive - Why? What stock do you want? AAPL, Apple Computer. I feel like this company is going some place. I also sold all of my AMD stock when it went from $12 to $23...

kswissreject

Yeah, it didn’t go anywhere for a while and I didn’t understand it as anything other than graphics cards and server stuff. Needed the cash. Oh well! Also sold ADBE at $60 and tried to short AAPL at $4 (split adjusted). What I would give for a Time Machine too 😕

Such_Coin

Unsolicited first impressions: AMD down or flat AAPL flat or down AMZN up or flat COIN up or flat SMCI  MSTR  CVNA 

reno911bacon

Didn’t buy FB when it IPO because Zuck was a duck. Bought AAPL instead. Turned out fine.

Firm_Love3598

My grandmother bought me 100 shares AAPL as a high school graduation gift because she knew I loved computers. I graduated in 1991. Total initial cost for my shares is $37.00

EnvironmentalArm2592

AAPL at $11.

Abysswalker794

AAPL 220$ EoY

CEOofBeanz

My plays for the year are AMD, TSLA, NVDA, BA, and AAPL

Scary_Larry_

I'm not sure if you know this, but AAPL has been trading sideways for almost 2 years now

WildConsideration376

I did not miss nothing senior regard!..I said what I said..I don't respect your rules..I can be bulling on AAPL and short NVDA..stop guessing..I live eat breath the market..most of those rules don't apply.The truth is mostly  in the chart

Alone_Ad2930

You missed the last part of my comment you regard, here I’ll say it again…one can’t be bullish on AAPL and short NVDA

Blackfoot6

AAPL, bought my first batch of shares in June 2014 at $23.39 per share.

Abysswalker794

AAPL 220$ EoY

RoyalFail6

!banbet $AAPL $182 7d

RoyalFail6

!banbet AAPL 180 5d

RoyalFail6

There’s no way AAPL doesn’t go up after ER, right? 

SoupyM

AMZN close to $200 post earnings and AAPL reversal to the upside incoming - all the shit around AAPL has already been priced in just like TSLA. Calls on both. Too cowardly to make a play on AMD... For now.

Fatchunks

AAPL End of year predictions and GO

Money_Music_6964

AAPL…decades

Ripper9910k

AAPL. Result of going full cash a few times but Ive always owned it when in.

Skd98012

Tim has got to be cooking something AI-licious. AAPL to $200 EOW

BansAndBands

AAPL earning are what will tank the market and spark a tech selloff.

Sandvicheater

AMZN and AAPL better not fuck this up

Jackiemoontothemoon

Hate to break it to you but AAPL has been trading sideways for almost two years now

BarbellPadawan

Well the !GUH guy was AAPL puts, wasn’t he? Remember the !GUH guy.

Guilty_Cancel_2596

AAPL at $17 a share

dubsaxs

AAPL, 1st bought in 2009, just wish I had the money to buy more at the time.

Alone_Ad2930

You had me until you said NVDA poot, sir NVDA is the bullish catalyst for the entire market. One can’t be bullish on AAPL and short NVDA

North-Right

Avg cost at $35 on AAPL 🙌🏻

love2fukmilf

Give it a week and you’ll be thinking about buying calls on AAPL for earnings

BAGross85

You guys have no clue. We’re literally at the top of the 100-year trendline. How many of you have made your careers, and made it big in options? Not many. Making it big for me is around 50 million dollars. And I’m not there yet. Go to a logarithmic chart. Look at the S+P 500 index since 1871. You can find that on TradingView. Right-click on the y-axis, and select “logarithmic scale”. Enjoy. Draw your trendlines, confirm my hypothesis. We are at a critical point, RIGHT NOW. Could it dance upwards for a year or two? Yeah, the dot.com bubble did for two and half years. But regardless, there’s a reason they’re pumped retail into the stock market, and you see advertisements for brokers on every single YouTube video that you click on . However, it’s not you degenerates that they make their money off of, it’s the guy investing his “safe money” into “low-risk, medium reward” investments. Like AAPL. Or intel. Or Alphabet. SPY is going to see less than $175 in our lifetime, probably within the next five years. There’s going to be an absolute SLAUGHTER of companies in the upcoming years that can’t get refinanced. My play is to go through balance sheets of companies with poor profitability and tons of debt, and buy puts that are -60% OTM, 1-year out. Each hit is a 2500x bagger. That means, if it fails within the year, $100 becomes $250,000. That’s real money. And who wants to gamble options to make a 3x return, when you can make a 2,500x return?

Alone_Ad2930

AMZ go BRRR along with AAPL then spy pump to 515-510 before we dump once’s more if ever until next leader of the America takes his seat in the pretend building.

Alone_Ad2930

This mfer said 1 share, I should bonk you but I agree AAPL go BRRR

ConstantOne5578

Let Tim Cook (rotten) AAPL. Their earnings will be a huge disappointment which is most likely priced in now. It depends on their Q2 guidance. I can´t see why the Q2 should be better (in China as well).

WildConsideration376

SOFI CALL LLY CALL AMAZON CALL AAPL CALL MSFT CALL & PUT NVDA PUT Calls I bought before close

headfullofpesticides

Yeah it’s way easier to track if I just buy a dollar, because then it says +15% /$1.15 etc. it also scratches a bit of an itch if I want to buy stocks but all of my plays are still playing. Atm I have GOOG and AAPL, two expensive shares I am not that interested in shelling out for