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Technology Stocks : Apple Inc.
AAPL 259.95-0.4%Jan 14 3:59 PM EST

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To: 2MAR$ who wrote (112591)5/9/2011 6:31:08 PM
From: Sr K3 Recommendations  Read Replies (2) of 213182
 
>> BTW , if you check back a couple of weeks , i was the one buying AAPL at the $320 pivot the morning the S&P downed the US Debt , AAPL was getting pounded on the NDX reballancing news & called the 40pt run back into earnings two days later to within $1 . Can show you the links if you like ...

actually i could have picked up shrs that morning for $319.96 but was a litle slow !! <<

Since when can you buy a stock just because it trades at a certain price? What was the ask price when the 319.96 went off?

S&P did not "down" U.S. debt.

"Standard & Poor's warned that it might lower its rating on U.S. government debt because of mounting budget ..."
[usatoday.com]

By the next day, other papers used softer wording:

Apr 19, 2011 ... Standard & Poor's warning that it could downgrade the United States' credit rating continued to haunt the markets Tuesday, but hopes for a ...

The prices you cite were available only pre-market. If you put in an order at 320.00 in regular hours, it never got executed. The low was 320.16, AAPL closed up Monday Apr 18, and hasn't seen Friday's 327.46 since.
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