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Apple Stock Price Marks All-Time Closing High Ahead of New iPhone Rollout
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You will be surprised very soon. The iPhone 5, iPad Mini and China Mobile deal will get the stock to 850+. In order to get the stock to $1000 and make it the first trillion dollar company I think we will need a new product launch with similar success to the iPhone and iPad. Remember people once said a company couldn't be worth a billion dollars, now every pimply faced teenagers Garage startup is worth that and more.
I am trying to convince my parents to sell our house and we will be left with $250k after the $100k mortgage return
I calculated that if I put the $250k in Apple on 25/7/2012, then today I'd have nearly $280k which is $30k profit, in just 20 days. That is a LOT of money
And I don't know how to convince them to make this life changing move
The stock is always rising and everyone says that it is a good investment even at its current price
My parents don't want to risk our everything "investing in stocks" but I am trying to explain them that APPLE is not JUST A STOCK. It is a legend. And everyone buys it and gets rich. I want to get rich. I don't want to die trying. And this is my only chance. I'm already 20 and I don't want to waste my entire life trying to make a better a living.
If my parents poured $100k into Apple back 10 years ago when I was 10 years old, they would have $10,000,000 in their bank by now. But instead they took the mortgage path. ********** *****. This is so frustrating. I regret for not being born 10 years earlier
I don't know what to do. I don't want to find myself after the new iPhone/iPad launch and much more while the stock climbs by tens of % while I "die trying" staying back behind like a ********ing sucker
I calculated that if I put the $250k in Apple on 25/7/2012, then today I'd have nearly $280k which is $30k profit, in just 20 days. That is a LOT of money
And I don't know how to convince them to make this life changing move
The stock is always rising and everyone says that it is a good investment even at its current price
My parents don't want to risk our everything "investing in stocks" but I am trying to explain them that APPLE is not JUST A STOCK. It is a legend. And everyone buys it and gets rich. I want to get rich. I don't want to die trying. And this is my only chance. I'm already 20 and I don't want to waste my entire life trying to make a better a living.
If my parents poured $100k into Apple back 10 years ago when I was 10 years old, they would have $10,000,000 in their bank by now. But instead they took the mortgage path. ********** *****. This is so frustrating. I regret for not being born 10 years earlier
I don't know what to do. I don't want to find myself after the new iPhone/iPad launch and much more while the stock climbs by tens of % while I "die trying" staying back behind like a ********ing sucker
Kiddo, if you want to play Monopoly, the lottery or Poker - do it WITH YOUR OWN money, not borrowed money, and certainly not your parents' money.
IBM also once was a legend and the most valuable company on the planet - around twenty years before you were even born. Look at what happened to them.
Heck, look at what happened to Apple in the late 1990s. They were a legend back then, too. A legend of total failure.
Most people who buy stocks don't know the first thing about it and ultimately only play Russian Roulette with their own financial existence. And usually, they fail miserably and go down.
How is 636 an all time high?
When the screnshot clearly shows that it has been at 644 within the last 52 weeks?
When the screnshot clearly shows that it has been at 644 within the last 52 weeks?
Your parents clearly understand risk much better than you do. Putting all of your eggs. In one basket is a terrible idea.
Because yes, the future for apple looks good. However you need to understand that, if anything goes wrong on the Apple side, they can stand to lose everything they've worked for, and then some.
Investing some money in Apple? Great idea. I did back in 08. Made a decent chunk of change. But dumping all your assets into one stock? Bad idea.
In the end you should just realize that money isn't everything. Think about your idols - Steve Jobs and Woz.
Both are/were crazy ****in rich. The first one is dead from cancer being one of the most admired and also most hated persons on the planet - and the other is just suffering from being an obese nerd legend that nobody cares about these days.
Money is nothing but bling-bling. Yeah, it's nice to have it. Maybe you should check out some social project in a developing country. Get some respect for life, get some respect for nature, grow up!
I bought at $200, bought again at $210 (after it went to $280 or something then dropped), then sold at $277 or something. Sadly, Apple's tendency to go to $280 then drop ended after I sold. I got back in a few months ago.
It's still funny to remember my friends who said that I should sell on the day of the iPad release and that Facebook would be bought up like crazy. Well, I'm glad Facebook's IPO did not go well
My brother bought one share after the iPad release at just a smidge over $200. In two years he's made $400. 300% ROI is not bad at all in my book
As for Facebook, they should have gone public years ago. Now they're just starting to stagnate.
Yes money is not everything but its the most
Without money, you have no food, clothes, a car, and a house of your own
Very easy to tip from above
You can't travel the world or to see nature without money
You can't live without money. Period.
So true I can recall back in 1997 or so when it seemed like everyone in the popular press was discussing the death of Apple (while I worked on my PowerComputing clone no lessI wish I had bought a few, when they were below $20
) and I considered asking my dad for a $10k loan to buy
sigh
Heck I'd do it. Apple is a sure bet especially with the new iPhone coming. People are going to go completely crazy over it no matter what they release.
That makes no sense. Mutual fund and ETF dividend payouts occur at a different time. Also, all these brokerage houses knew exactly how many shares were involved on Monday.
The dividend payout is calculated on computers, really big fast ones.
Moreover, AAPL dividend payouts should be on time just like any other stock, whether it be GE, IBM, AT&T, whatever. Heck, I got my AAPL dividends on time, so if someone else is getting dividends posted to their account a day late, well, that's a brokerage-specific behavior.
Dude. Three starter rules on investing...
1. Do not invest on emotion ... and there is clearly too much emotion in your post.
2. Do no invest in perceived "legends".
3. And lastly, do not invest because "everyone says its the best".
I cannot believe, with a straight face, you want your parents to sell their home and throw it all at AAPL.
You're 20? You've got a ton of time ahead of you and time is your friend. Here's a book or two to read: Burton Malkiel's A Random Walk Down Wall Street (it was published 16 years before you were born and is more relevant to investing today than ever). The Four Pillars of Investing by William J Bernstein. Always read Warren Buffet's letter to shareholders, all previous years are on the Berkshire website. Read any book by John Bogle, but it sounds like his most recent one might be best for you, "The Clash of the Cultures: Investment vs. Speculation" (I haven't read it yet).
There's a whole world good companies out there and you need some practice to be able to identify good investments.
That is exactly the problem, I have no experience in stock trading. Apple is the best stock to hold today, EVERYONE says so and I know it based on reading Apple news and press releases
I have $10k in my bank and I am TOTALLY gonna invest it all probably next week
The problem is my profit is going to be so lame
I only know one thing. If I don't put big money in Apple in the next couple of days or weeks I'm gonna regret it for the rest of my life
I have no time to read books and I obviously don't have time to start a research on startups. Apple is the safest of all, it never fell down in the past 10 years and that is also why it's expensive
In other words you telling me you'd rather keep $250k cash in your bank safe than buy Apple?
You're ignoring what everyone is telling you. Yes, aapl is a great stock to own, but you sound like you're expecting it to change your life forever and that it's foolproof. It's not. Don't invest all your savings in one place. That's foolish.
Also, stop trying to convince your parents to sell their house. I mean think about what you're saying. Just calm down, do research, and make an informed buy. Don't just drop 10k, on a stick, on a whim.
Yes it Will change my and my entire family's life!
If I put $250k now, and then it gets from say $650 to $850, its a goddamn $200 profit per share and with $250k I can buy 384 shares which means ********** $76,800 in a couple of months
Lol. You're clearly not going to be convinced otherwise, so by all means invest all your savings, and get your family to sell their home. Do you have aunts and uncles? You might be able to get them to sell their homes too.
You can sell your plasma too, might be able to make enough for one extra share.
I mean you'll make 76000!! You can live off that like...forever.
Man..
You are a new investor. Let me put you in touch with a friend who bought a ton of AAPL on margin in 2000 when it was around 30 and looked like it was rocketing skyward. Until it plummeted later that year (which is when I bought more).
The market is all about timing. I don't doubt that Apple will go up, it's just a matter of how much and how long it will take. You can't predict your future and may need to access money when AAPL's on a downward trend. Putting everything in one place is a bad plan. If you want to start investing, then start with a fund, many of them have AAPL in their portfolio so you get the benefit of AAPL's growth without risking it all.