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To: sylvester80 who wrote (15444)	1/18/2012 2:22:09 PM
From: pyslent	Respond to of 32692

You do better if you buy on the dips. It's a good strategy if you are pretty sure the general trend is up going forward.

To: sylvester80 who wrote (15444)	1/18/2012 2:26:25 PM
From: Guth	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 32692

You assume everybody bought at the top. You retroactively pick stocks that have outperformed. You are making progress, though, by unintentionally admitting AAPL isn't tanking. Now, why don't you just go on that "Apple is evil" rant and get it out of your system. Boy, that's going to hurt when you write out that check to Cogito. If you were so good at picking tops and bottoms you would have clearly seen that he was giving you a good deal by letting you crawl off by paying a price weeks before the ER. Just think, you could have had 4 or 5 more crappy dinners at that greasy spoon taco dump you frequent.

To: sylvester80 who wrote (15444)	1/18/2012 3:34:36 PM
From: Cogito	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 32692

Not cherry picking? Everything you wrote is 100% correct? Please. Do you take everyone who reads your posts for a fool? First of all your claim that " If anyone is an isheep buy and holder, you are up $1/sh in the last 6 months." is completely false. Here's a six month chart for AAPL. And obviously there have been some very attractive entry points for long positions along the way. As well as for shorts. But to claim that AAPL is up only $1 per share in the last six months is to ignore reality. See? We start at 373.80, back on July 18, 2011, and as of the moment that I created this chart, the stock was close to 429, for a 14.85% gain over the period. Anyone who bought six months ago is up by that amount. Anyone who bought before that is up by that amount over the same period. Have other stocks done better? Sure. But this thread isn't about how other stocks are doing better than AAPL, is it? No, I just reread the header, and it's quite clear that the premise of the thread is that Apple's valuation was way too high nearly a year ago, and that the stock was going to "tank." Here's the AAPL chart since the inception of this thread: I rest my case.