AAPL

Detail4

I’d show you the survivor bias in my portfolio if I could here. Up 26,000% on Tesla. Up 50,000% on NFLX. Up 1,500% on NVDA Up 2,000% on AAPL What it wouldn’t show is the turds I’ve sold over the years. When I sell one of those it usually goes in the index. Right about the time I bought NFLX there was this company that was going to sell radio by satellite and had Howard Stern. Yeah that’s a -90% return. So your YouTuber is correct but also wrong, Do both, have a base, and let the winners run and if you’re decent at this you’ll beat the market.

Coloradodreaming1

Outstanding! Investing is so fascinating to me the directions it can go given time in the market. The few winners really make the difference like an AAPL. I remember in 2012 asking my Ameriprise FA if I was allowed to buy individual stocks vs the SMAs and mutual funds I was always pitched to buy. She said of course and instructed her buy AAPL with my entire SEP IRA contribution that year. Thats my AAPL story.

ThanklessWaterHeater

There was a day for me in late 2008 that was a turning point in my life, but I had no idea at the time. I had a bunch of AAPL, which I had bought between 2005 and 2007. It kept growing as I added and it was incredible. Then the global financial crisis hit, and AAPL started dropping. Day after day, week after week, month after month it dropped and over the course of the year my heart ached as I watched all of my gains disappear. The earliest shares were still positive, but the later shares went so negative that it took me back down to even. And one evening I thought to myself. “I can’t take this anymore. This was an interesting experiment, and I can be happy that at least I haven’t lost money. But tomorrow I’m going to sell it all.” And the next morning I opened Schwab, intending to sell it all. But it happened that Apple was up a little bit that morning. And I decided to wait another day. And the next day it was up a little more, and I decided to wait again. I’m not 100% sure what happened after that, it may be that I simply forgot that I was going to sell. But I did not sell. I think about that morning almost every day, how completely different in my life would be now if I had sold rather than holding onto the few thousand dollars worth of AAPL that would one day be worth many millions.

groovewhisperer

I have to say, I subscribed to MF Stock Advisor way back in the day. MF was my first exposure to trading. Have no idea what they do today, but they did quite well by me back then. Purchased DIS, AAPL, MSFT, NFLX, PCLN and a host of others based on their advice. Eventually moved on from them…

Little-Revolution650

You could look into some BRK B shares. Although they don’t pay dividends they still equate to roughly the same or even better performance of the S&P500. AAPL is their biggest hold however, and GOOGL is in there at a small percent, but it’s a lot more toward reliable names and good performing stocks.

Dude_HaHa

SPY to 200 QQQ to 150 Oil to $400 Gold to $10,000 TSLA to 0 MSFT to 50 GOOG to $20 AMZN to 40 AAPL to $500

greenpride32

>focus on ETFs that are not heavily invested in the AI and technological sector Tech generates by far the most profits in today's world. Profits are what drives invidual stock prices up in value, and thus the indices holding them. Leaving them off the table means less return. Your SP500 and NAS100 top weights are NVDA AAPL GOOGL GOOG MSFT AMZN META AVGO and all of them are consistently setting new top and bottom line numbers over time. NVDA and AAPL each broke $40b in profit last quarter. Also past few years, growth has been dominated by semiconductor (SMH) and other AI adjacencies such as energy and datacenter infrastructure. You might find an ETF that has done well in past 1Y or even 5Y period. But it likely won't hold up to ETF's holding the above in the long run. Something like VDPG doesn't even beat SP500 on 5Y lookback. With SP500, it rotates winners in and losers out. That's why it histroically goes up over time. So by holding it, you don't need to be concerned with which sectors or companies are prospering and which ones are not.

UnObtainium17

I don’t think “this could be it” for microsoft in that segment. A lot of people just have to use windows thru work or that is all what their raggedy company could provide and support. Personally i could vouch for a macbook. Apple’s macbook lineup is currently in a trend where both hardware and software are improving. My macbook pro from 2015 is still fine. The M1 pro i have is so good that it might have to fall apart before i consider replacing it. The best apple product i bought. I like this move by apple. Sold all my AAPL last year and now i wish i did not.

culturefan

I find them worth it. You need to acquaint yourself with their method of buy and hold--it's worth it if you read their book, You Have More Than You Think beforehand. But I've made a bunch of money off some of their recs (AMZN, AAPL, NFLX, etc.). I've lost some too, but the gains have more than made up for it to me, and I've been buying thier SA newsletter for around 18 years. I think one of the things currently affecting things is we're in an overprice market with geopolitical turmoil due to Trump: tariffs, oil, etc., but given time those things will shift & sort themselves out.

greenpride32

I invest for the long term as macro issues can/will impact every company regardless of how well they are doing. From time to time I do look at max pain during the earning date of a heavyweight - past days AAPL - these days NVDA. But this is just for fun and not because I plan to "play" (gamble) the event. I do find it amusing how so many people get bent out of shape when NVDA posts great numbers and stock price goes down. Then I look to see how the price is gravitating towards max pain as usually it's call heavy. But on most earnings, you can see the pricing action does wipe premiums on large majorty of open interst on both sides of the chain (definition of max pain).

Available-Range-5341

100%. The market has been a series of rolling crashes for 5-7 years, papered over by NVDA and big tech being too much weight in the SPY recently. It's extremely hard to be positive and think about the future when investing in any sector except big tech meant you'd probably lose 8-10% in the near term for no reason. And now big tech outside NVDA and AAPL are down

Available-Range-5341

I hope so or this is my last day this year touching stocks because I'm having the shit touch, to put it mildly. People forget that SPY is NVDA/AAPL. That's why people below are commenting on the market ignoring the war. It is not. SO many stocks are doing absolutely horribly. I'm tired of researching why any given stock is nosediving out of nowhere. MArket outside NVDA is very different than, well, the market

cbusoh66

This AAPL MacBool Neo is the shits, wonder if it will be an overall positive or cannibalize the higher end Macs? Puts on MSFT either way

AdAmazing8187

I basically full ported on XOM and AAPL calls in summer ‘21. I rode a wave of turning $170k into $4.5 mil over the next year. Was wild. Was like being at a craps table and never losing

comancheranche

Even AAPL is green holy moly

Available-Range-5341

Most stuff pumped hard after dropping hard, so IDK if it was this fabulous exit liquidity rally. I think alot of pain or at least flatness keeps getting papered over by the concentrate of "the market" being NVDA and AAPL which refuse to participate in any drop.

Available-Range-5341

I have a legit question but first want to say: I'm tired of everyone acting like it's whining/the world is against me when I comment on how stuff always nosedives the second I buy it. It's happened enough times that it's way more than coincidence 50/50. If no one has research on it, I should become a PHD and study it, because there is something there. that aside, my question: your technical strategy. 1) do you think/know weakness vs. SPY still works, given how much weight AAPL and NVDA have now? Has that skewed things? I found my portfolio has had nothing to do with SPY since 2024 2) the moving average thing: I've noticed that when stocks were bottoming, they sort of stopped mattering. Are you saying you see a trend where that means they drop more, or just that the momentum isn't there yet?

greenpride32

>Anyone have strong feelings about TSL when so many stocks are within whisper distance of all time highs This is such poor sentiment. If you picked a "winning" stock, then by defintion it continuously sets new all time highs. How did AAPL GOOLG NVDA get to $3b+ market cap? They had to first get past $100/250/800b then $1/2/3t. I've actually held AAPL and NVDA through a period of over 50% decline. GOOGL was close but I don't think quite 50% (2021-2022). If you don't have high conviction on your stocks, you aren't buying the right stocks (bail on a small dip?). Even if you just did SP500 it is continuosly setting new all time highs in the long run.

Creative-Package6213

AAPL

ThePickleJarGambit

Bought and sold $800 worth of 1DTE way OTM SLV puts the day before it crashed 30% or whatever it was. Looked the prices of the puts I bitched out of and they were up ~15,000%. Most I’ve ever realized I think was BABA at ~2,000%. AAPL at 1,200%, and NVDA around the same when it topped briefly in July 2024.

BuffMaltese

Tomorrow AAPL, GLD, and SLV are going to the moon 🚀 Source: My calls and my balls.

Iunatic

Bitcoin taught people that you can make money off of literally nothing. WMT rallying to this valuation is the same thing that happened to COST 2 years ago, people asked the exact same questions lol. It's a different market now. Institutions use stocks like WMT COST AAPL as a money sponge when uncertainty arises with the consumer.

Creative-Package6213

As SPY goes so does AAPL.

Ok-Raisin-2387

Haven’t had a green AAPL in a while 

WillTheGreat

To put it into perspective AAPL 260c were literally free, and they're sitting at 1.11 right now. That is an infinite return.

Creative-Package6213

It's insane how much AAPL mirrors the SPY.

WillTheGreat

Massive volume spike on AAPL

Ok_Dish1650

Bought myself the new macbook for 3k, then sold all my AAPL puts for 3.5k profit Get fucking scammed, Tim.

Available-Range-5341

The issue is that so many stocks already crashed, including big names like MSFT and CRM. This headline basically means AAPL and NVDA will join the rest of the market

Prudent-Corgi3793

I like to think I do Peter Lynch style due diligence New iPhone announced: AAPL calls Elon tweets about FSD: TSLA calls See a fat person: LLY and NVO shares I lose money on options, crypto, and predictions market: HOOD calls

No_Amount_6059

Why would you expect flows to tell you what to do outside of being an indicator of the flow and give you additional info. I use it for long and short ports, this past year am up on AAPL, Xene, AAL, pretty hard to lose a lot but pretty easy to get a few weekly or quarterly lottos that seem to work out, at least for some 

Aigpil

fair point, commodities in general have been a vol trader's playground this year. I just think most retail straddle buyers aren't playing oil or natty — they're buying AAPL straddles before earnings and wondering why they lost money lol

Stop_The_Rain

AAPL picked the wrong time to announce a load of cool shit!

Iunatic

Everything is priced in. Don't even ask the question. The answer is yes, it's priced in. Think Amazon will beat the next earnings? That's already been priced in. You work at the drive thru for Mickey D's and found out that the burgers are made of human meat? Priced in. You think insiders don't already know that? The market is an all powerful, all encompassing being that knows the very inner workings of your subconscious before you were even born. Your very existence was priced in decades ago when the market was valuing Standard Oil's expected future earnings based on population growth that would lead to your birth, what age you would get a car, how many times you would drive your car every week, how many times you take the bus/train, etc. Anything you can think of has already been priced in, even the things you aren't thinking of. You have no original thoughts. Your consciousness is just an illusion, a product of the omniscent market. Free will is a myth. The market sees all, knows all and will be there from the beginning of time until the end of the universe (the market has already priced in the heat death of the universe). So please, before you make a post on wsb asking whether AAPL has priced in earpods 11 sales or whatever, know that it has already been priced in and don't ask such a dumb fucking question again.

Iunatic

While the indices have been flat, many stocks have had large ups and downs. I only trade a few stocks (PLTR, ASTS, AAPL) and I am up 34% in the last 6 months. I think this has been a very difficult time to trade though unlike 2023-2025 lol

greenpride32

If you're investing in stocks with the hope or expection that its price would always be higher than what you bought it for each and every day for the rest of the life, then you've already lost before you started. I had AAPL stock in the mid 2000's and it went down over 50% during the 2008-09 financial crisis. I don't have to tell you the rest of the story because you already know it. Do you think even a prolonged war will materially impact AMZN or GOOG/GOOGL in the long term? Stocks will move in the short term because simply put there exists a professional market that looks to squeeze any margin out of any situation. If you aren't part of this market, you shouldn't concern yourself with its short term impacts.

ClaritXai

Congressional holdings are interesting as a contrarian signal, but don't mistake it for edge. These are mostly mega-cap defensive plays — MSFT, AAPL, JPM. What's more interesting is insider buying/selling within companies (10b5-1 plans), which actually has predictive power. Congress holdings often lag the market and are held for different reasons (diversification, not conviction). Worth tracking but I'd weight insider transactions 10x heavier in your analysis.

Accomplished_Way8964

"ONDS doesn't have factories." Neither does AAPL

Available-Range-5341

What would drive it though? NVDA and AAPL haven't budged. COnsumer staples, utilities, etc. are now overpriced. Only thing to lead a runup would be for CRM/MSFT/AMZN to skyrocket, along with banks. That requires some big narrative shifts

DrDoomslayer

AAPL heading to 300 within next 2-3 quarters, think about it just made macbooks / iphones more affordable, the ecosystem capture and downstream income from that is what will bring in juicy returns that STAY, think about someone with an iphone, u dont stop there, u have I everything, apps out the wazoo (app store profits, and on and on and on) apple here to stay, its the standard of care for everything we use in real life. Will it 100x like NVDA did? most likely no, but it also wont fall down 100x like NVDA can when / if AI underwhelms.

JudgeInfamous4111

I made about 400k on NFLX calls last week, still have 300k in shares.  Other main holdings are CRWV and CRCL.  I’d be looking to buy shares of AMZN or AAPL on a bigger dip or TTD/MNTN on a strong double bottom

AxlStorm69

I'm still holding Apple that I purchased in December 2006. I had $2,500 in my IRA and put it all in Apple. Yes, I still have some of it after all the splits, withdrawls, etc. My return % is 16,558.77% according to Fidelity. I also still have some Facebook form the day it IPOed. Return on that one is 2,066.08% It was really cool to see my AAPL holding go from $2,500 to over $20,000. Same with FB. When FB had their IPO everyone thought I was crazy for buying a social media company and I said it wasn't that; it's the greatest data trove EVER and it will be worth something. One of the few times my thoughts were entirely correct.

deBoots

Sold $4B of AAPL stock in August 2025 and indeed has been selling since

Coloradodreaming1

AMZN and META were popular calls to start 2026. Both have been disappointing, especially AMZN. I’m sticking with them and adding to my positions for 2026 while we are anti growth phase of the year so far. Swapping some GOOG for AMZN and AAPL for META is a thought too vs new cash.

Forgery

BTW, this is my thesis why smart people will only trust AAPL with their personal Ai. Google and Facebook's motivations are just in the wrong place.

trustabro

According to ChatGPT its 131k 288 stocks of MSFT, 28 stocks of AAPL, 40 NVDA! Crazy. From 3 stocks

Beetlejuice_hero

Waste Management, re: I've written about this before but literally my biggest mistake EVER in the stock market was selling $225k worth of WM shares I bought in 2012 at ~34/share. Not only would the principal be worth a shitton now, I'd be collecting a massive dividend in a literal safe hold forever company. I have the proof somewhere if anyone doubts. I've done okay in other areas - have AAPL (though much smaller position) from 2011, bought META in 2022, but God what a brutal mistake selling WM for what was a $10k or so gain.

Equivalent-Tip-3084

Top SPY Holdings by Weight (Approximate as of March 2026) NVIDIA Corp (NVDA): ~7.5% - 7.6% Apple Inc (AAPL): ~6.5% - 6.7% Microsoft Corp (MSFT): ~4.9% - 5.2% Amazon.com Inc (AMZN): ~3.4% - 3.6% Alphabet Inc Class A (GOOGL): ~3.0% Broadcom Inc (AVGO): ~2.5% - 2.6% Meta Platforms Inc (META): ~2.4% Alphabet Inc Class C (GOOG): ~2.4% Tesla Inc (TSLA): ~1.9% Berkshire Hathaway Inc Cl B (BRK.B): ~1.5%  State Street Global Advisors  +7

Max_Gerber

AAPL, the iPhone. Shocker, I know.

misomochi

Funny that AAPL is even on the vehicle

One_Rip_5565

Forming higher lows on the daily. That AAPL news would be insane here! No doubt they would meet $1 compliance and a lot more.

xSpectre_iD

AAPL for July and BULL for Jan '27. Averaged both down today. Figure unless the world ends we'll bounce back by then.

teddyevelynmosby

That is the only game I play this year so far. LEAPS or PMCC we treated it as a hold strategy but I tweaked it a bit for scalping. I am in and out of AAPL, MSFT or NVDA at least three times this year. And they are not going anywhere from a price standpoint while I am not 100% bullish that NVDA will go to $200 even this year. But in between I am making good 4-5% yield so far while spy is still in the red

Life-is-beautiful-

AAPL since 2008.

BrilliantServe6722

Similar boat. My first investment was AAPL in 2014 and still holding it.

Shoddy_Ad7511

AAPL since Nov 2012

Mathguy200

AAPL $263 EOD miracle time?

phillythompson

Yeah I got AAPL back in the fifties myself 

Mathguy200

If AAPL can’t get its ass over $262 I’m gone

MentionThen200

Shirley AAPL is going to rally with the market, right?…. Shirley, right?

obxtalldude

AAPL. Bought a hundred shares in 1998, held to 2013. I still miss them. Never sell a good company.

LjS11-

I've held AAPL since 2015. It's definitely my baby.

ThanklessWaterHeater

I’ve got a few. I think the longest-held that I have are Eli Lilly and Becton Dickinson, both purchased in 1984 by my mother, and which I continue to hold. BDX has been kinda boring the last 20 years, and I recently trimmed a little to invest elsewhere. LLY I just hold. As for my own investments I bought AAPL in 2005, and added through 2006 and 2007. Like LLY, there’s no reason to sell it when it just keeps growing.

Devastaytah

Bought AAPL 260c, surely this doesnt go wrong

Just_Butterfly4052

GOOGL and AAPL looking juicy rn

Mathguy200

Why does MSFT get to be green when AAPL is so red

Wulfric05

Starting to buy AAPL calls

Devastaytah

Its time to ape into AAPL calls, its hitting those levels

Mathguy200

How the hell is AAPL this red?

Mathguy200

I remember when I had $700 yesterday…. I’m about to have $100 in 21 minutes. Poor AAPL

greenpride32

I don't think you understand what the term bubble means in stocks and finance. It means an asset's value has increased sharply and beyond any reasonable fundamentals, purely based on speculation and lack of supporting instrinsic value. NVDA only added $4t worth of equity value to its shareholders over past 5 years. It passed AAPL last quarter for highest ever quarterly profit for a US public company. NVDA currenlty trades at a lower P/E than WMT and COST. I don't know what you look for in a stock, but doesn't get much better than that.

Mathguy200

What the fuck that dumbass 260.7 AAPL jump had me for a second

AirportMaterial5917

ppl really thot we were getting AAPL touch screen macbooks

Mathguy200

AAPL I need $262.5 today. Just at open

actuallyrealperson

Feels like AAPL is the MAG7 stock executing the best right now - low AI capex, Gemini running AI Siri, as long as the economy doesn't go too far to shit people will keep buying new phones and they're killing it with Gen Z, barely a new Windows laptop or Android handset in sight on college campuses. Get 'em hooked young I say, it's good for my calls.

gocommitsudoku6_nine

Selling my AAPL calls 30 mins after open and sleeping the rest of the day ✌️

Creative-Package6213

Apple TV did a good job with the F1 broadcast, calls on AAPL.

Mathguy200

Yeaaaaa ima need AAPL at $264 by open who do I call about that?

Vivid_Common_9255

would you run your model on below please AAPL, SLV, AMZN, NBIS

Available-Range-5341

Depends on what you own, but I often am not experiencing what people here are talking about. I think it's because people here are NVDA and AAPL heavy, so they didn't experience the turbulence of the second half of 2025 etc.

jonneh

This is actually a throwback to the old AAPL lol

Actual_Difference617

I think AAPL’s move to introduce lower end products is at the perfect time. They can bring people into their ecosystem who are tired of microsoft’s degrading windows with each iteration and the price increases by other manufacturers like chromebooks and pcs due to RAM crunch. Apple might take a little hit in revenue for some time but will eventually I think its gonna prove to be a master stroke.

Mathguy200

lol @ ber. AAPL $268 tomorrow

Crazy_Donkies

I hate AAPL products but I just became an owner.  The press behind their new laptop is insane.  It very likely will be a huge product for them.  

Available-Range-5341

IDK the only things that haven't crashed since the April crash are NVDA and AAPL. Every other sector already had a crash. Not sure it's overdue except for the aformentioned stocks that take up too much weight in the indexes Maybe a few banks needed to drop too I was invested in five sectors (medical, utilities, consumer staples, manufacturing, real estate) last year and lived through a crash while SPY was basically flat First time that ever happened

Mathguy200

Come on bulls… don’t let these bitch ass bears get you down. AAPL $265 EOW

Mathguy200

AAPL $265 EOW please

Mathguy200

AAPL $265!!!!!!

Mathguy200

Where does AAPL end the week? $265?

Nota-downer

Damn, AAPL throws a bone to the poors and it gets rekted.

SlartibartfastMcGee

Really tempting to just full port margin shares into AAPL and come back in 6 months.

JonRadian

wtf AAPL

Tay_Tay86

Eh tu AAPL?

Mathguy200

AAPL $265 EOD. Easiest dip bought

Stop_The_Rain

AAPL... always the way... new products lots of buzz... retail buy from funds.

theummeower

Fucking AAPL killing me

Numerous_Priority_61

I see this as a catalyst for the stock, however I am somewhat concerned on their margins. Lower prices are awesome but what are they making for profit per phone. With memory prices increasing and shrinking margins, and these lower prices shrinking margins I wonder what that is doing. However if you look at the spec sheet of this new phone and the Neo they are mostly made from recycled materials. My daughter is 11. She has been bugging me about getting a used iPhone 16 for about $339 from Amazon. I will happily get her a 17e for $499 instead. This will take market share away from used iPhones and used MacBooks, or push their prices even lower. I mean hell, now I can get her a new Neo and new 17e for $1000. Ahh ya, no brainer. Plus remember, a major source of Apple's revenue is through subscriptions and the App store, their services pivot a few years ago is just going to be exaggerated by this. I am a high school teacher, I have 128 kids. 124 of them have iPhones. 2 don't have phones and 2 weird kids have Galaxies to 'be different'. When 9th graders stop having iPhones Ill let everyone know. Until then, ya, AAPL is going to crush it.

solidsneeze

AAPL must be frustrated nobody has perfected ai enough for them to copy yet

3rd_in_line

I think you are overthinking it. They continue to improve their products, increasing their reach, getting more people within their ecosystem and encouraging them to buy more. Add the increase in India that will surely continue. Last quarter Apple sold the most iPhones ever. [Link here](https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/29/the-iphone-just-had-its-best-quarter-ever/). They just keep on delivering. Even their wearables like watch and headphones/earbuds have massive revenues that continue to impress. Technology will continue to move forward and Apple will just make more money from it, unless they make several massive mistakes. I am not expert on Apple products, I don't own any, but I do own a nice amount of $AAPL. I will continue to hold through any ups and downs, just focusing on the long term outlook

jonneh

AAPL went from selling an aluminum monitor stand for $999 in 2019 to an affordable aluminum MacBook for $599. # The times they are a-changin’