Tempting Tuesday – AAPL Bites into Nasdaq’s Gains

Posted on the 28 January 2014 by Phil's Stock World @philstockworld

That's the chart pattern that is now shaping up (if you are into such things) and, in fact, it will be marked by a small bouncy "rally" that ultimately fails before our strong bounce lines and ultimately cracks below the bottom of the old channel.

Like my accurate SuperBowl predictions from 1/3, I can only tell you what's going to happen in the future – how you decide to trade on that information is up to you.  

Like yesterday, in our Member Chat Room, I said I thought the best risk/reward play for AAPL was playing them for an earnings miss by picking up the next week $500 puts for $2, which could be $10 if AAPL disappoints.  Well, disappoint they did and we'll see if we hit our 400% target gains on that one today.  

Long-term, we're still long on AAPL and we will be pressing out long bets on this pullback (see my notes on AAPL earnings and trade ideas in this morning's Member Chat) but we're not in a hurry until we see the indices shape up better than this.  

The Nasdaq was only saved by the 50 dma and will open today below it (4,085) while the the rest have plowed through theirs and may be on the way to visit the 200 dmas – 5% below this point and on the way to the 10% correction we expected.  

We were not fooled into making any bullish bets yesterday (other than some fun Futures plays on the bounces) because our weak bounce lines were never crossed.  Now, as the market gets weaker, we'll have to redraw our bounce lines to accomodate the wider range.  

This does not change our 5% Rule's™ ranges at all – these are just the very short-term moves we need to see in order to start pulling back our bearish bets (long in place) and begin to consider some bullish plays:

  • Dow 15,940 (weak) and 16,080 (strong) 
  • S&P 1,794 (weak) and 1,808 (strong) 
  • Nasdaq 4,100 (weak) and 4,135 (strong) (includes moring


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