Is apple a smart investment, with the rumored new revision of the iPod shuffle, and the intel macs?

Is it worth the risk when the stock price is so high right after the Christmas success with the Nano?

Answer by hugo
if the cash flow is high, it’s a good investment. given the expected turnover of the products, there may be room for some increased revenue volume.

Answer by cran
The stock is definately gonna move in January…with MacWorld, earnings call, and sales figures from Christmas time. Hard to say if it’s going to go up or down because the stock is already up so much…a lot of times…good news is already priced into the stock.

It’s a good stock in my opinion…however, at these levels, I would buy on dips and not put too much in just in case.

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Okay, so I am wanting to buy a call option on Apple stock which is like $ 345 right now. Let’s say I set my strike price at $ 345 and e*trade has a commission of 9.99 and 75 cents per contract. Can you help me understand how much money I would make if say the price of Apple went up to $ 360 by February which would be my expiration.

Answer by John W
The quoted price for options are actually interpolated to per share for ease of comparison so that $ 0.75 quoted is actually $ 75.00 for a 100 share contract.

If you bought a call contract with a strike of $ 345 for a premium of $ 75 and a February expiration then in February you would have the right to purchase 100 shares of Apple at $ 345 a share and provided that you have the money or margin (credit) to do so then you could turn around and sell that 100 shares at the market price of $ 360 for a profit of $ 1,500 ($ 15 a share) minus commissions. Note, there is also commissions for selling the shares and the commissions for buying the options would usually be much higher, typically $ 50 as an option involves not only the purchase of the option but the exercise of the option should it be in the money at expiration hence there’s a greater administrative cost associated with options. The beauty of owning a call option is that had the stock price gone down and the option is out of the money, you don’t have to exercise the options hence you don’t have to buy stock at the strike price and your losses are limited to the price of the options.

Note that securities take 3 to 4 days to settle and you can only exercise options that are in your possession therefore, even though it’s possible to sell your options up to the day it expires, no one would buy it too close to expiration because they would not be guaranteed to receive it in time to exercise. Also as the option approaches expiration, there are fewer people willing to buy the option in hopes that the stock price will go up before the expiration date cause there’s less time for that to happen and the people who do want to buy your option figure that the only reason why you’re selling is that you can’t afford the $ 33,450 that it would take to exercise the option if you can’t find a buyer so they are going to low ball you. If you are going to hold options within a month of it’s expiration, you need to be prepared to exercise it.

There are a lot of people who foolishly buy huge amounts of call options that are about to expire thinking they can sell them just before the expiration for a profit only to find that even though the stock prices went up, they can’t find a buyer and will stand to lose their investment if they can’t come up with millions of dollars in cash or credit to exercise the options. There was one poster on Yahoo Answers that was real proud of having bought 2,000 call options for pennies on a Greek bank with a strike of $ 2.50 that would expire in a month till I pointed out that if it made any money, he would have to somehow borrow $ 500,000 for a day or two in order to realize the profit.

Answer by free intradaytips
Option trading has many advantages over other investment vehicles. Trading in option contracts can give an investor the flexibility to place bets on very specific market outcomes.

Option contracts also provide traders with an enormous amount of leverage. In the US, 1 option contract represents 100 underlying shares. In other countries, such as Australia, option contracts can be in multiplies of 1,000 times the underlying stock or commodity. So, with a relatively small amount of money an option trader can control a very large underlying stock position.

Answer by Dr. Duke
The Feb $ 345 call option will cost you about $ 1250 per contract (yesterday’s prices). At February expiration, AAPL will have to be trading at $ 357.50 for you to break even ($ 345 + $ 12.50). At prices above $ 357.50 you will profit. In your example of AAPL trading at $ 360, your profit would be $ 250 less about $ 10 for commissions. But if AAPL just trades sideways, your option will slowly lose value. If AAPL closes at less than $ 345 at February expiration, your option will expire worthless.

Answer by David
Try this site: www.propayday.biz it can make you good money and it’s easy to do.

Answer by James
Very Simple.

Long Call Profit = (stock – strike) – (premium + commission)
= (360 – 345) – (0.75 + 9.99)
= 15 – 10.74
= $ 4.26

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Shares of Apple (AAPL) have backtracked from a session high of 8.60–the highest 52-week level for the stock, after reporting post-bell yesterday that Q1 net income jumped to billion, or .43 a share, compared with net income of .38 billion, or .67 a share, last year. Revenue soared more than 70% to .74 billion on strong holiday sales of the iPhone and iPad. Analysts predicted EPS of .40 a share on revenue of .74 billion. Goldman Sachs and Bank of America Merrill, raised their price targets on the stock, as a result. IBM also blew by Street estimates, suggesting that companies might be spending more on business services. Apple shares are up 0.38%, or .31, to 1.96.