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发帖数: 8087 | 1 Apple's Mini 'Flash Crash' Today
19 comments | February 10, 2011 | about: AAPL / AMZN / CSCO / INTC / QQQQ
/ SPY
At around 1:45 pm EST today (Thursday) Apple (AAPL) experienced a mini-flash
crash where the stock
briefly went into complete free-fall before immediately recovering half of
its losses. From high to low, the
stock lost $10 in 20 minutes and saw big gap downs from $352.50 to $348.00 (
$4.50) over a 1-2 minute
period of time.
I watched the May flash crash live and can attest that this sell-off was
extraordinarily similar in nature to
the May sell-off. My initial reaction to this disorderly sell-off was that
Steve Jobs must have gotten hit by a
bus without a stock halt. Later it was discovered that the selling pressure
was attributed to reports of thin
crowds in Verizon (VZ) stores during the iPhone launch.
Yet, whatever the reason for sell-off I can attest that the sell-pressure
was entirely disorderly. It seems that
we still have issues with specialists being unable to keep things afloat
ahead of huge orders in the market.
The volume spike was enormous as millions upon millions of shares were sold
in the scope of 15 minutes.
Interestingly enough, the S&P 500 (SPY) barely even took notice to the Apple
sell-off, which I find to be very
peculiar given how widely owned Apple is and how much of weighting it has on
the SPY. While the Nasdaq-
100 (QQQQ) saw some selling pressure on the Apple flash crash, the selling
was actually very muted given
Apple's relatively high weighting. This market is getting more and more
fragmented by the day. Six months
ago, Cisco (CSCO) being down 13.6% would have lead to massive selling
pressure in the markets. Yet, today
poor Intel (INTC) results, poor Cisco (CSCO) results, and poor Amazon (AMZN)
results have absolutely no
impact on the Nasdaq.
This is either testament to the strength of the market rally or evidence
that the equity markets are no longer
functioning normally. Yet, flash crash aside, any weakness in Apple for any
reason is an extraordinary
buying opportunity. That's for sure. |
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