AAPL
Apple Inc.
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Usually, price tends to move in line with changes in Shareholders’ Equity (Total Equity, Book Value).
A stock’s price can trade at a “Premium” to its Book Value or at a “Discount” to its Book Value (P/B ratio).
Where it can trade will depend on the Cash Flow Statement (CFF, Cash Flow from Financing: Equity Issuance & Debt Issuance) and the composition of the Balance Sheet (Book Value = Total Assets - Total Liabilities).
Businesses with growing CFO (Cash Flow from Operations) usually have a large portion of their Book Value coming from Retained Earnings, which are part of Shareholders’ Equity (Book Value & Price Per Share📈). Examples: MSFT, AAPL, NFLX, AMZN, etc.
The problem with GME is that a large part of its Book Value comes from CFF (CF from Financing: share issuance and debt issuance), where most of its cash comes from. By issuing more Equity ('shares') in this way, you can “pump the price,” for a while, but your P/B Ratio will eventually return to around 1 or 2 because all your Book Value is sitting in Non-operating asset, such as cash.
https://preview.redd.it/8eevapcqiqih1.png?width=4800&format=png&auto=webp&s=56fa9b2efa3409f02c45b9f65b295d725f6ad77a
So, the price can return near to its Equity Value (Total Equity), example bear market since 2021-2024 (before pump!).

While pricing in the expectation of a future Equity Issuance, which could occur if Noteholders claim their shares (increasing Total Equity by increasing shares outstanding). The problem with this, is that increase actually diluted the shareholders, so the "wealth gain" is pretty low.

Hey guys,
A bit new to programming, but not so much to trading. So far, I have created my first momentum-based trading bot, and from here I am transitioning into programming my own backtesting engine. I have done most of the work from scratch, but here and there I will use AI to discuss implementation options, write monotonous code, or help out when I have no idea where to start and am just staring at a screen mindlessly.
Here are some details on my trading bot:
* I am using moomoo's API through Python.
* I intraday trade a basket of stocks that are "hot". My strategy scans for volatility and enters on continuations.
* I store trades in a dictionary with the ticker name as a key and a list as the value (e.g., `orders["US.AAPL"] = [trade1, trade2, trade3]`). Each trade element contains info like child orders, shares, decay, etc.
I log trade info as well. Here is an example trade that the bot took so you can see where in the market it executes:
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US.AMD: pending entry: 473.68
Ask: 473.24, Bid: 473.19, Spread: 0.05
US.AMD: SELL order filled at: 473.28, STOP LOSS: 473.96, Take Profit: 472.6
Shares: 31.0
Time: 2026-08-10 09:34:15

US.AMD: take profit order filled at: 472.5
Shares: 31.0
Time: 2026-08-10 09:34:21
PnL: +$24.18

Currently, I am just playing with ideas. I do not expect profitability from any of my strategies, but I have a lot of things I want to try. This is my first Python project as well, and it's been a lot of fun.
I have some questions for the community:
1. **Do you think it is worth it to learn C++ for speed?** I know location is the bigger concern, but I can't help but feel like I might miss out on some fills.
2. **How do you deal with rate limits?** As you can see, my bot is very fast and the API has rate-limited me before, which has me holding onto positions for extra time. (I was thinking maybe I could source shares from another brokerage).
3. **Would you say tick data is required to get okay backtests**, or is minute resolution good enough?
4. **I don't know what I need to know.** What concepts should a noob learn about?

I agree with you.
What are you favorite plays, given the assumptions you've made?
I figure the old GOOG/MSFT/AMZN will be the big winners, along with AAPL eventually and META. Software is the PRIMARY beneficiary right now, which could be disruptive, but I think most of the firm-moat companies that are around now will be around later, just with fewer employees (which means more profitable).
How are you playing this?
Man, I really missed the boat when those Mythos headlines came out. I knew I should have been buying cyber security stocks at the time. I even had owned Fortinet for a long time but sold when it went through a full year of going absolutely fucking nowhere and then BOOM.

He did an interview with Marketwatch in 2020 where he disclosed his 6M (split-adjusted) share stake in AAPL. Now worth about 1.8B.
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/how-the-coronvavirus-stock-market-rout-left-chewys-founder-down-150-million-on-his-apple-bet-2020-03-23
Forbes reports his net worth at 5B.
https://www.forbes.com/profile/ryan-cohen/
Again, provide better sources

Serious question: why does SPCX deserve \~60x latest-quarter annualized sales while TSLA is around \~10x, MU is around \~6x, and SK Hynix is maybe \~4–5x?
I get the SpaceX story: Starlink, launch, defense, Mars optionality, Musk halo. Amazing company. But 60x is too high, when you could still get TSLA /musk premium for 10x sales and arguably a better market position with its AI product - Autonomous driving, probably #1 place, while SPCX is more like 4th place in AI in the US, not even factoring in the China models.
Compute is fragmenting: NVDA, AMD, ARM, AVGO, MRVL, AAPL silicon, hyperscaler ASICs, Intel trying to stay relevant, etc. Meanwhile serious DRAM/HBM is basically Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron.
Every AI architecture still needs memory. Training, inference, autonomous cars, servers, phones, PCs, NAND/storage — all of it pulls DRAM/HBM/NAND demand.
So why does the market pay scarcity multiples for SPCX, but still price memory like old cyclical trash?

Imagine being bearish on AAPL

Nothing, don’t sell and don’t get married.
Jk, i’d sell all individual stocks besides NVDA, AAPL, AMZN, GOOG, JPM. Put some in VOO and use the rest on your wedding. Maybe sell AMZN to have extra funds for the honeymoon too.

66 next week, still work, plan to retire @ 68 & 5 months. Want to work 1 yr without earnings penalty from SS, FRA 67. Have about 6% of portfolio invested in QQQI, SPYI, QDVO, GPIQ. I add significantly to this basket which pays me about $2,200 mo. But, I add more aggressively to my core holdings of the basics: mutual funds & ETFs, a few from Fidelity & Vanguard, Schwab, T Rowe Price…primarily VOO, VOOG, FSPTX, FXIAX, SCHG… Heavy on tech, S&P 500, banking. Old, very old. Also hold other SPACS, LPs, midstream pipeline companies such as MPLX, ET, ENB. Many other names too… O, JEPQ, BST, UTG, the dog PFE, BTI, MO, CGC (loser), STK, AGNC…
Most are winners and powerful dividend payers. Some are duds.
And lots of SPCX, META, AAPL, NVDA just for fun.
But, the best way to win: skip all this crap and add to your core holdings now & forever. The broad based, not too eccentric, S&P and Technology Funds are guaranteed intermediate & long term winners. They are also short term winners about 70% of the time. I feel like I’m too old to untangle the mess I made without significant tax consequence, but the bulk of new money, expected to continue forever, is invested in core ETF holdings, ROTHED to the max, but outside retirement accounts too. Some is peeled away for fun. We are all at the mercy of America in that risk assets could enter a prolonged period of downward repricing if the perception becomes the rapid decline of capitalism resulting from recent election results. Or, God forbid, if the investing community is convinced we are headed toward adoption of European economic and societal models. Then we’re truly doomed. If they kill the goose, real or imagined, our assets go with it.
There’s nowhere to hide if you have any money at all.

He had around 1.5B in mid-2021, with most of that tied up in GME. But for the sake of argument, let’s say it is 1B in AAPL, 500M in GME. Apple has doubled since then, which would put him at 2.5B (not including the drop in his GME shares). Nowhere close to his current 5B net worth.

Bought way too much AAPL today and need some hopium smoke blown up my ass please thanks

Mag 7 YTD check-in:
🟢 $AMZN: +22%
🟢 $NVDA: +15%
🟢 $AAPL: +13.7%
🟢 $GOOGL: +13.4%
🟢 $MSFT: +7%
🔴 $META: -8.5%
🔴 $TSLA: -24%

True story - I originally bought AAPL because I was sick of the company's success, so owning the stock was like an emotional/financial hedge. This was when it did a 7:1 split down to just under $100. I've basically been holding since then. I think it was around 2012-2014?

Apple, $AAPL, has reportedly canceled its planned all-glass iPhone, per Jeffries.

Bunch of green candles on various tickers (TSLA, GOOG, AAPL) during that dump. looks more like someone big got out of semi's and rotated to mag7

AAPL is on a discount. It would be dumb for me not to YOLO my whole portfolio on calls

STO 1x AAPL Sep 11 2026 305 Put Limit Filled at $7.80 (Day)

It’s odd to me that NVDA plateaued these days. Has fuck all growth. Granted, it’s huge, but still. AAPL and GOOGL have bigger swings than them!

You can smell the swing from AAPL

Same, my fair price for AAPL is like 220 but I'll start buying it from 250 and below.

I've been saying this for months - AAPL with single digit revenue growth, exploding costs, and a forward PE of 40... If you're long, you're a retard.
Let me guess, waiting for Siri AI and the "upgrade super-cycle" 🤡