AAPL

Bert_McQueen

I started investing by putting money each week into a mutual fund through my bank, I did this for 10 years until I had about $100,000. I don’t even know what it was, it was safe but it didn’t grow very much. After reading a bunch of books and going to a seminar I decided to open a self directed account and started putting a few hundred dollars per week into it. After about 4 years I had invested around $30,000 which grew to $55,000. I started with BRK-B and MSFT and I had some SPY and AAPL. In January of 2025 I received a small inheritance and then I decided to consolidate everything in my self directed account and manage it myself. So in January of 2025 I started with $225,000 which took me about 15 years to save up. Today my portfolio is worth $455,000 meaning that it has doubled in a year and 5 months. In the first year it returned 43% which surprised me, I was hoping for maybe 20%. So far this year it’s up 41%, I am surprised and delighted. Now that I have it where I like it in terms of position size and stocks, I just just keep putting about $500 a month in and I buy whatever is down and cheap out of my chosen stocks. My plan is to hold long term and just keep chipping away. I might start building positions in VRT and ARM over the next year, I also want to add more CAT I wish I had bought more. [Here](https://imgur.com/Wx6JQdp) is what my portfolio looks like today, here is more detail about [ASTS](https://imgur.com/y4Q1xeS) and here is more about [SMH](https://imgur.com/SwtwRMh). I heard about SMH in a youtube video, I learned about ASTS in a reddit post. I learned everything I know from watching youtube videos.

Federal_Radish_1421

I wish I knew. I honestly don’t even think he could explain. I know he likes to buy the hottest IPOs. He bought META as FB at IPO, and also GOOG. AAPL he bought during the 2000s because my sister and his niece both wanted Macbooks, and he figured if the kids like it then maybe there’s something there. I’m not sure why he got so heavy into AMZN, and MU was mostly luck and extreme patience. He picked it up during the GFC super cheap when everyone thought the world was ending. He figured if the ship is going down, he’s going down with it. LRCX he’s added to during bear markets probably since at least the GFC. Maybe it’s not NVDA, but it’s was a slow but steady winner until recently. Some big winners are just holds from low valuations during the GFC, like CAT and some banks. But he’s also been doubling down on his Mag7 stocks on weakness ever since.

jvujo

I don't think that is correct. AAPL struggled in the early to late 90s when Jobs returned. Sears was a solid company until the late 90 early 2000s. AAPL started growing when SHLD started declining, so until the mid to late 90s, Sears was the better investment.

FightOnForUsc

You’re shorting AAPL which still has earnings growth and has shocked people on revenue and earnings growth for decades bc it has a 37x forward PE when TSLA is right there at 220x forward PE and has had earnings growth stagnate. Maybe you’re making the right call maybe not, I’m not a financial advisor and this isn’t financial advice, but it seems like a wild move to me.

JoLagoni

Agree, AAPL kind of landed on the table first as a consumer oriented company with the kind of products fitting the thesis facts

Due-Freedom-5968

>Is AAPL due for a pullback? No.

vinkulafu

You talking to me? How’d you know that my AAPL and RKLB shares will be called away?

Super_Highway_3405

What's so hard to understand? 40% of SPY is mag7 plus broadcom and micron. AMZN retail basically doesn't matter, so the only other one that depends on an average person spending money is AAPL.  So the onus is on you, show me the disastrous earnings. 

SchindlersList1

he sold delta at the absolute low and sold costco at like 1/4th the value today. His long term hold on AAPL has covered a multitude of sins.

PixelPioneerVibes

Yeah, I have been invested in NVDA, AAPL, and MU for the last 8 years. When I have income at a job, I usually split my investments into 50% ETFs and 50% individual stock plays that still have huge upside left. I've actually been shaving my individual concentrated stock positions as surpasses new highs, without exiting completely, and putting those profits into long term ETFs.

gstxprz

I buy 2-3 shares every week of: QQQ, MSFT, NVDA, AAPL. Been doing this for the last 6 years. So far so good.

wildcat1055

[https://x.com/markflowchatter/status/2059637253240913982](https://x.com/markflowchatter/status/2059637253240913982) Friday’s MSCI rebalance will be the largest ever, with a \~$303bn overall trade. Notable tech rebals include: [$NVDA](https://x.com/search?q=%24NVDA&src=cashtag_click) (largest trade notionally of \~$11b to sell, net index supply of almost 50mn shares) [$AAPL](https://x.com/search?q=%24AAPL&src=cashtag_click) big large buy \~$3.1b, net demand 10.5m shares) and [$MSFT](https://x.com/search?q=%24MSFT&src=cashtag_click) (big large buy of $2.9b, net demand 7m shares). [$INTC](https://x.com/search?q=%24INTC&src=cashtag_click) should be net index supply of 31.9m shares JPM DESK WELLS DESK

LumpyShock9656

How on earth did VOO end up green with NVDA GOOG AMZN AAPL WMT COST in the red

Plus_Lifeguard1752

Friday's MSCI rebalance will be the largest ever, with a ~$303bn overall trade. Notable tech rebals include: $NVDA (largest trade notionally of ~$11b to sell, net index supply of almost 50mn shares) $AAPL big large buy ~$3.1b, net demand 10.5m shares) and $MSFT (big large buy of $2.9b, net demand 7m shares). $INTC should be net index supply of 31.9m shares JPM DESK WELLS DESK

solidsneeze

I am one again asking for AAPL to be kicked out of the s&p

Sea-Refrigerator7919

AAPL go up already damn

N_cto

SoFi, AAPL, NVDA, ASTS, BB

Sunkettle

Lmao why is AAPL dumping randomly? 😂

JonnyP0T-SmokR

AAPL receives the “fuk me over today” award.

Sunkettle

AAPL can’t decide what it wants to do this week 😭

TurbodToilet

Here they go using AAPL to prop up the indexes yet again. Like clockwork

FakeMetsFan

I'm also the same age but I'm heavily invested in tech (NVDA,MSFT,GOOG,AMD,PLTR,AMZN) as I believe this AI cycle will continue for a few more years at least. I'm going to ride this till I hit $10MM. 20% in AAPL and COST as these are my buy and hold forever companies for me.

knoqd_

I’m never gonna understand the AAPL hype

spellbreaker

I'm thinking wait ~12 mins into open then slam 2% OTM 0dte AAPL calls and see where that goes in the next hour.

Daforce1

I bough several thousand of AAPL when Steve Jobs returned in 1990s and have kept most of it. It’s now worth a lot.

vermilli21

Man AAPL 315c looks like a good yolo play today but I don’t have the balls for it

NoCartographer4725

You could always backtest to find the optimal params. Say for the case for AAPL you can do -- "Sell AAPL \~0.05-delta OTM puts around 60 DTE, then buy back when the option has lost 75% of its entry premium." [https://scalarfield.io/analysis/4cd3ef4b-fb5d-40b3-ba51-4971387d17ff](https://scalarfield.io/analysis/4cd3ef4b-fb5d-40b3-ba51-4971387d17ff)

x7_omega

Dumb retail that you are referring was the last buyer in previous bubbles of pre-algo era. Now that woman is not the last - dumb algos are, otherwise known as "flows" (as in flows of capital) into index ETFs, meme stocks (AAPL before, TSLA recently, MU now) and such. This flow can only be stopped two ways: market overpowers it by selling off 15\~20% without any comments from the inside-trader-in-chief and his swarm of minions, which is unpossible; another way is if flows dry up due to slowing down or net reversal of contributions (pension contributions become less than pension liquidations). Boomer pensioners are now eyes-deep in stock market, while in the pre-algo era they were in bonds, where pensioners should be. This mindless, relentless bid is about 60% of the market now, and growing something like 4% per year. Research points out that when it reaches 70% or so, it will destabilise the whole stock market, so that instead of relentless creep up, it will trade like a low-liquidity stock. Pensioners cannot sit on a portfolio that goes up and down tensies several times a year, and they will sell massively (adviced by dumb advisers and soon AI). That selling will be the force that kills this monster. So you have about two years of the same grind up then scare down cycle. Make your millions and then retire to some tropical beach country with a stash of gold and a tiny gain bear account just for fun.

abroadbroadband

Here's some DD: One of my Airpods won't charge unless you angle the charger the right way I'm sorry, but this is enough for me to get some puts on AAPL

ralphy112

My oldest positions in my portfolio (investing since 2003!) are 2012-2015 buys. QQQ, AAPL, AMZN. They have gains of about 1000% tied to them, but cost basis amounts of $3-10k. The qqq was 20k I think. The problem is that between 2003-2013 I funded two home down payments, the second one being larger. So 30k is what I had at the time, plus the down payment that took basically the first 10 working years to save. Life happens along the way.

bored2death2

\>> Always only has winners OP is looking for a unicorn. Buy PUTS on $AAPL instead.

Ancient_Sun_2061

And AAPL

TheShaveStickGuy

Best rule I was told along time ago was never ever sell any stock. You can spend your dividends and that's it. If I had followed thar advice I would have made $5m alone just in TSLA. I wish I listened. You can lose 100% in a stock but the upside is infinity. I know someone that retired off $3000 in AAPL.

iAtty

AAPL. Worked for retail, invested into ESPP, have around ~800 shares dating back to 2011 when I started investing in them. I should probably sell it all and throw that money into more VOO or something but it's still doing well. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Sunkettle

AAPL getting battered around like it owes one of you money. Let it fly to $314 ❤️

official_luxe

Buying AAPL puts on my IPad is the most fundamental thing you can do as a trader

chauhan_shubham

What's with AAPL?

asetniop

Quite the pop on AAPL.

Ozqi

Crazy AAPL V

silverfutes

Latest AI pipeline test results are in, of the hardware/LLM combos we tested: highest rank: Ollama MLX on Apple Metal (native) lowest rank: vLLM on Windows (RunPod) + H100 GPU calls on AAPL

TurbodToilet

The algorithm they got churning out liquidity for AAPL is insane

Sunkettle

Any ideas why AAPL is dumping?

Sunkettle

Should've bought my AAPL calls later in the day. WWDC 2026 is coming up soon, so it'll probably pump by then

E39_CBX

My last 2 options trades were 2x+, from 4k to 18k. AAPL and NOW. What’s next? I need another 2x.

vermilli21

The fact I made money on AAPL calls with a quick scalp from .45 to .75 is something

KarenBoof

MSFT is a large part of my portfolio.about 5 years ago I bought an equal amount of MSFT and GOOG to make up half of my portfolio thinking one will dominate AI, but had no idea which one. MSFT with their investment in OpenAI dominated for a short while GOOG plummeted. Everyone thought Google search was dead due to AI. Then GOOG showed they can actually capitalize on their investments and the tides changed fast. The people who move markets aren’t software engineers that use these products day in and day out. I am. It gives me a unique insight into where these techs are going, seeing the bottlenecks, where the demand will be, etc. As much as I hate some of MSFT’s business practices (looking at you copilot), they have a very strong moat with enterprise. To leave MSFT for a very large company requires too much investment and is not worth it. They do offer great business productivity tools too. The key difference between MSFT and GOOG or even AAPL for a better example, is that the average investor and look at GOOG and AAPL and see their value. The same can’t be said for MSFT. The average investor isn’t using Azure or .NET and seeing the products they have been rolling out or the moat they have. They look at shitty ass Windows and copilot and think, geez this sucks. They don’t see where the bread and butter lie. It’s the investor that’s lagging behind not MSFT

Sunkettle

Couldn't sell my put for a profit. Bought AAPL calls this morning tho 👏

ThanklessWaterHeater

If you are ever lucky enough to get on a winner, it is usually best to let it go on winning. I make a habit of holding things I’ve bought and never selling. I have shares of AAPL bought at $1.25 a share in 2005; shares of LRCX bought in 2012 for $4 a share; shares of MU bought in 2015 at $14.50 a share.

1098duc_w_the_termi

CEOs of MSFT, META, and AMZN all looked at the garbage that was chatGPT 2 and thought to themselves “yeah let’s spend trillions in data center build outs, the potential is limitless!” instead of just sitting on their massive positive free cash flow until the tech was validated. AAPL is trading a multiple premium because of that lmao

merdekabelajar

Mine is AAPL atm

Green_Conclusion5792

CRSR, SNOW, and AAPL not part of this Asian dump going on right now

Spicyboi981

It’s a new product from AAPL

MaliciousTent

I bought and sold a lot of $AAPL in 2010's . The level of romo is been make sad.

Axolotis

Buy AAPL

apurimac777

The full retard economy started when AAPL actually convinced a bunch of working "professionals" all they needed was a dongle instead of an actual port on their laptops And retards wonder why the new Electric 'rarri looks like a Chinese EV econobox Just buy calls and take the money ya'll

Xzlk

My port at the start of today was AAPL, META, SNOW, DIS(disregard this shit) AMA

Efficient_Pomelo_583

AAPL has the moat of moats, NVDA does not.

lurch1_

Law of large numbers.....although look at AAPL...essentially flat earnings and a PE of 36, but doubles every year anyways.

J_da_CPA

AAPL going for 5T is cray cray

imightgobroke

AAPL just swinging its dick

jbaker_28

Agreed. Trickle down into the broad economy probably the next play/where the puck is going. Been using AI to scan earnings calls and finding companies where they’ve explicitly mentioned they’re using AI heavily and it’s improving margins. Lots of those names quietly moving up. Whole ‘nother wave of AI coming next with inference and then AGI. Robotics and voice powered devices gonna be big too (AAPL been my biggest weighting since April). Truly life changing investing environment. Press the hot money trades, but be careful not to get burned. Doesn’t go up and to the right forever. Been at this long enough to have learned the hard way. Multiple times, thru multiple cycles. Great times rn. Good luck!

Sunkettle

Shit, I sold my AAPL call too early 🥲 Still a nice profit on it

wolololord

The lack of punishment for AAPL not bothering with an AI push is eye opening. They just stick with what theyre good at. Makes you wonder where meta would be without their capex

Fair_Philosopher575

Inverse QQQ: AAPL, MSFT

Iunatic

Man whenever AAPL has retard strength it's unstoppable

Samjabr

AAPL with a PE 2x NVDA and single digit growth. Durrr

Necessary_Ad_9800

I see AAPL preparing for WWDC

FatFluffyFish

AAPL just casually doing its daily pump

TurbodToilet

Holy fuck what a crazy top rejection on AAPL

vermilli21

Said it yesterday, unless AAPL or GOOGL are both red, SPY is just going to keep going up

teh_herper

AAPL just heading to ATHs every single day like nothing else matters lol 🤌🤌🤌

teh_herper

AAPL the only thing keeping SPY from going -1% apparently

__nameless____

He deserved that smack on the head by apple, anyway AAPL calls it is!

bathok

after all the bs if I had just bought AAPL and left it would've been the best play.

_Kenway

bullish for MSFT and NVDA bearish on AAPL, GOOGL and MU

MtGloomy0420

Just so I have it here… I bought $AAPL around $245 when the RSI was like 20. I knew it would go to $300. Yesterday I liquidated a few of those shares at $310…and bought 750 more shares of $CTM! I have a few shares now ;)

GomeBag

AAPL has been making people rich for like 30 years, tf you mean past 10

Independent_Rent_315

Solid roll — locks the gains, extends duration past the next two big catalysts (Rubin ramp Q4 '26, then Q1 '27 print). Quick math on the $150 strike: with NVDA's '26 profit est \~$258B and '27 growth at conservative \~30%, you're looking at roughly $335B in '27 earnings. At the \~$3.68T market cap implied by the strike, that's a forward P/E around 11x — basically you're betting NVDA doesn't compress below 11x forward by 2027, which is *below* current AAPL's multiple at lower growth. The trade math says these go deep ITM unless the AI capex cycle breaks. Risk is a guide-down before the option goes ITM and you lose your roll cushion — but with 2027 expiry that's a lot of beats to disappoint through. If you ever sold covered calls against the LEAPS, the $150 strikes give you room to scalp 2-3 cycles of premium without capping the underlying. Worth it if you're comfortable with the management.

Sunkettle

Anybody else bought AAPL calls today? 👀

g1184

Bitcoin was once in a generation TSLA was once in a generation AAPL was once in a generation NVDA was once in a generation ... and this is just the past 10 years

AKAkorm

Hard to say anything is a once in a generation opportunity when there are numerous stocks and securities that have made people super rich over the last 15-20 years alone. Was getting into AAPL before the iPhone or NFLX early once in a generation? Was buying BTC early that? Don’t chase because you think you’re missing out. It’s how you buy at the top and lose money.

Fhyzikz

Probably because their growth will be slower/limited going forward because they are already such a valuable company measured in market cap. That's why I like it though, it's a safe bet. MSFT/AAPL/GOOG of semis. More predictable moves. Something like AMD/INTC still move crazy insane because they're still growing. NVDA already a proven winner with a historical balance sheet to prove it

Frozen_Shades

Fun Fact: AAPL still exists. Bet you forgot about AAPL.

Oldschoolhype2

Of course SMCI pumps after I sold. Same thing happened with AAPL. They get you down enough to make you fold then inject it with steroids.

astromouse2024

I got the ‘Your AAPL $315 6/12 calls have lost more than 20% since you’ve opened them.’ notification and I’m scared to look

sylphvanas

How tf is QQQ up 2% when META, MSFT, NVDA, AAPL, and AMZN all red

Ozqi

Sorry guys I bought AAPL

Mouse0022

Buy SMH or SOXX. and just hold. If you buy any individual stocks, can't really go wrong with GOOGL, NVDA, and AAPL. Besides that, VTI and VXUS and chill. Know your risk tolerance. Don't go big into anything speculative. Look at it like lottery tickets, put in as much as you can handle if it went to $0. Don't put in more than you can handle losing. One thing to remember on a red day is that you only lose if you sell. Sometimes you just have to hold onto the ride and ride it out. Don't be a perpetual bear.

TurbodToilet

And there they go pumping AAPL lmao. Like clockwork

Jagged_Tide

AAPL

Independent_Name_601

Everything except AAPL and GOOGL is fair game imo.

vermilli21

Not really expecting SPY to drop more unless AAPL or GOOGL both goes red

cgonz15

Mag7 mostly red except for GOOG, TSLA and AAPL. But none of those reach 1% green lmao so how are you evergreen

Jagged_Tide

AAPL puts at the top would’ve printed so hard, alas another opportunity squandered

intelligentx5

Well done. I have a rich uncle and he once told me something that always stuck. You can make tiny investments anywhere or do a ton of due diligence and make one very high conviction investment. He never goes less than $100k. He put 250k in AAPL in 2008. Still hasn’t sold. You remind me of him.

Frozen_Shades

Remember AAPL?

After-Equivalent8650

AAPL refusing to accept any selling pressure.

GrassOrAss954

AAPL Pinned. Shame.

imustbegthequestion

Is that what BB is? Please dethrone AAPL as the business phone. Also, has anyone seen u/SickOh? It's been a while.

iamsarahz

AAPL calls