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IWATCH MAY HELP APPLE FLY THROUGH $500 $AAPL

February 12, 2013

Apple stock faces stiff resistance in the zone of $497 to $514. The reason is that Apple is still over-owned as well as overweight in many portfolios. It is difficult to say what retail investors will do when Apple stock approaches $500, but professionals who are overweight Apple stock are likely to lighten up. Such lightening up will create resistance. Recently, I shared a short-term trade idea on Apple AAPL. So far, the trade is working out well, as shown on the updated chart. The target zone shown on the chart is also the resistance zone. Please click here for the

BLACKBERRY PICKS A STRANGE WAY TO BEAT APPLE WITH A THOUSAND-DOLLAR PHONE $AAPL $BBRY $T $S $VZ $GOOG

February 12, 2013

The first carrier to introduce the BlackBerry Z10 in the U.S. is not Verizon, AT&T, Sprint, or T-Mobile. It is a carrier that you have probably never heard of. Solavei, a relatively new phone carrier, is introducing Z10 for a price of $999. You can buy it on their website with a promise of 24 to 48 hour shipment. The price is perplexing. An iPhone 5 without a contract is available at Wal-Mart for $649, and for $200 from carriers who demand a two-year contract. So much for iPhone 5’s status of a premier priced phone. In contrast, Solavei is offering Galaxy S III for

MONEY FLOWS OUT OF APPLE AND INTO BLACKBERRY $AAPL $BBRY $T $VZ $HD

February 12, 2013

Yesterday trading in Apple and BlackBerry was a show of contrast. Apple rose about 1% and BlackBerry fell 4.6%. Of interest is that money flow was negative in Apple while the stock was going up and money flow in BlackBerry was positive while the stock was going down. Apple had lots of good news. There was excitement from the rumors of iWatch. There was positive anticipation of what Tim Cook would say today at the Goldman Sachs conference. Apple was also experiencing a tailwind from David Einhorn’s revolt against Apple. In contrast, BlackBerry had two pieces of bad news. First, Home Depot decided to

GOLD AND SILVER DOWNGRADE IN THE SHORT-TERM $GLD $SLV $GDX

February 11, 2013

This post was published on ZYX Buy Change Alert. We are downgrading gold and silver in the very, very short-term and the short-term. Here are our current ratings on gold and silver. Neutral with negative bias in the very, very short-term. Neutral with negative bias in the short-term. Negative in the medium-term. Negative in the long-term. Positive in the very long-term. Our algorithms are seeing aggressive selling by Smart Money and light buying by the momo crowd. The momo crowd has made gold and silver markets very volatile. For this reason the ratings above are not cast in stone and are

FEATURES THAT WOULD MAKE IWATCH A KILLER PRODUCT $AAPL $GOOG $SBUX $MCD

February 11, 2013

Both the New York Times and theWall Street Journal are reporting that Apple is working on a watch-like device. iWatch has been in the rumor mill for a long time, but now the rumor has gained more credibility being spread by these august outlets. Pebble, a smart watch that shows emails or text messages easily at a glance by connecting Google Android smartphone and iPhone has received a lot of interest. The interest in Pebble was so high that it was quickly able to raise $10 million on the Kickstarter website. If Apple were to introduce iWatch, it will be the first new category of products under

NEW IDEA ON CIT $CIT

February 8, 2013

These posts were just published on ZYX Buy Change Alert. First Post This is a short-term trade suitable only for aggressive investors. Consider initiating a 20% tranche in CIT in the zone of $41.80 to $42.45. Second Post CIT is a speciality finance company. IT has long been rumored as a takeover candidate. Now there is a report that it has hired Goldman Sachs. In a take out the stock can fetch close to $60. However if there is no take out the stock will fall. Fair value based on ZYX Quantitative Screen is $36.to $40.50. To limit potential losses consider

HOW TO TRADE APPLE ON EINHORN’S REVOLT $AAPL

February 8, 2013

Thursday morning, the news broke that David Einhorn’s Greenlight Capital had filed a law suit against Apple demanding that it give a bigger portion of its $137 billion cash to investors by issuing preferred shares. Much has been written in the media about the details of the lawsuit. Not much value is to be added for the reader by regurgitating the details. The point of this column is to help the reader trade to generate profits on Apple AAPL based on Einhorn’s move. The time when Einhorn’s news broke is marked on a 60-minute Apple chart in an orange callout. Please

TAKE MORE PARTIAL PROFITS ON ZAGG $ZAGG

February 8, 2013

This post was just published on ZYX Short Sell Change Alert. ZAGG is short from$13.85 and previously profits have been taken as low $6.95. 60% of the full core position size is being held. Consider taking profits on a 10% tranche right here around $6.70.