X-Received: by 10.58.86.41 with SMTP id m9mr999658vez.40.1402278446639; Sun, 08 Jun 2014 18:47:26 -0700 (PDT) Path: csiph.com!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder3.hal-mli.net!peer03.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!j5no2615347qaq.1!news-out.google.com!q9ni1458qaj.0!nntp.google.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.supernews.com!news.supernews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 08 Jun 2014 20:47:26 -0500 User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/12.30.0.110427 Date: Sun, 08 Jun 2014 20:47:24 -0500 Subject: Re: Chicken Little From: George Kerby Newsgroups: misc.phone.mobile.iphone,comp.mobile.ipad,comp.sys.mac.system Message-ID: Thread-Topic: Chicken Little Thread-Index: Ac+DhMKNK0fy/WFzXUaMl//Z+aseuA== References: <020620141212394785%michelle@michelle.org> <6ig2p9ht5l290li6p0qh98t8na4slhp01k@4ax.com> <050620142212226272%michelle@michelle.org> <060620141023432719%timstreater@greenbee.net> <5394a7d5$0$51459$c3e8da3$eb767761@news.astraweb.com> Mime-version: 1.0 Lines: 33 X-Trace: sv3-qy5wJdr80JcNdss6y18GkNoKcyo92IwrQsoArbifkFA+7F1f+RJsB/uT80Y0Mre8/+U65itZJ647nnL!TNgt2nJCK8m763z3XMFi/7E7SqcX31lFmF5rk5y5G7uzady+QJIydxF/wQp8RBKgb3V1oJstiSa+!3Q== X-Complaints-To: www.supernews.com/docs/abuse.html X-DMCA-Complaints-To: www.supernews.com/docs/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 2726 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Received-Bytes: 3024 X-Received-Body-CRC: 2339312923 Xref: csiph.com comp.mobile.ipad:36593 comp.sys.mac.system:60566 On 6/8/14 4:26 PM, in article bvk2p9FgrkdU1@mid.individual.net, "Rod Speed" wrote: > JF Mezei wrote >> Rod Speed wrote > >>>> Are there any long-term investors these days? > >>> Corse there are. > >> A few years ago, the Wall Street Casino analysts were making self >> serving predictions of AAPL going over $1000, the sky is the limit >> etc etc. This attracted a lot of speculators for a quick buck. > >> Then, once the casino analysts reduced their exposure, having cashed in >> on the speculation, they started to issue bad news about AAPL, and the >> stock tanked from over $700 down to below $400. The speculators left. >> And that left longer term investors. > >> So AAPL is much more of a blue chip stock these days than a speculative >> one. However, it is still very affected by the news cycle. Wall Street >> Casino Analysts could drive the price down with some bad news about >> Apple so they could buy in at a low price, and then let it rise again. > > Sure, but that's a quite separate issue to whether there are still long term > investors. > You are talking to a wall of doubt, feared by bullshit. It is really SAD...