{"id":14913,"date":"2011-10-05T23:30:34","date_gmt":"2011-10-06T03:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/?p=14913"},"modified":"2023-04-03T12:35:17","modified_gmt":"2023-04-03T16:35:17","slug":"my-apple-memories-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/my-apple-memories-2","title":{"rendered":"My Apple Memories"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>1984: my first computer was an Apple IIC given to me by my parents in 8th grade (i was a very fortunate kid) ($1300). i was so excited when i got a 300baud modem having visions of hacking into banks and government installations after having watched War Games with Mathew Broderick<\/li>\n<li>1984: telling my grandfather he should buy Apple stock. he listened and was very thankful a few years later (not sure why i chose to buy TWA instead)<\/li>\n<li>1988: my first Mac SE with a 20MB hard drive ($2200). my father didn\u2019t understand why i needed a hard drive so i had to pony up for the $300 additional cost (that\u2019s right $300 for an 20MB hard drive. i believe a 500GB hard drive today is about $50)<\/li>\n<li>1992: selling my apple stock after it dropped from 60 to 40 (I think Jobs had already been fired by that point anyway)<\/li>\n<li>1998: buying a PowerPc Mac clone. i did it because i was still angry at Apple for failing to license their OS back in the 80s and allowing Microsoft to crush them in the PC wars.<\/li>\n<li>2000: buying my first PC and moving away from Mac. I just could no longer deal with the lack of compatibility on some stuff<\/li>\n<li>2004: buying the Ipod mini the day it was released and hoping it would be shipped before i left for my one month trip to China. looking at the stock price at $14 after i received my Ipod mini and thinking i needed to get long ASAP.<\/li>\n<li>2004: back from China and trading AAPL almost every day having fun with the HFTs<\/li>\n<li>2007: trading AAPL from 120 to 200 culminating with the release of the Iphone<\/li>\n<li>2008: long AAPL the day that rumors of Jobs illness came out and taking a quick 6 point hit<\/li>\n<li>2009: trading AAPL the day after earnings were released in May and seeing it break above 126 and thinking next stop was going to be 160.<\/li>\n<li>2009: trading Christmas eve with 5 other guys on the floor and getting long above 197 for the break above 200. betting ALJ that it would close above 208 and winning \ud83d\ude42<\/li>\n<li>2010: doing a live from the floor show on Stocktwits with Howard Lindzon and discussing in awe the blowout of their earnings that i thought could take the stock from 240 to 280.<\/li>\n<li>2010: blogging about the bigger pic technical setup for a break above 360 and the move to 400<\/li>\n<li>Today: getting short on the pop to 366 on the Open and covering on the move down to 361 (glad i covered \ud83d\ude42<\/li>\n<li>Tonight: watching my twitter stream get lit up as news of Steve Jobs passing spread through the virtual world<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>*No Relevant Positions<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1984: my first computer was an Apple IIC given to me by my parents in 8th grade (i was a very fortunate kid) ($1300). i was so excited when i got a 300baud modem having visions of hacking into banks and government installations after having watched War Games with Mathew Broderick 1984: telling my grandfather he should buy Apple stock. &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/my-apple-memories-2\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":143,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1409],"class_list":["post-14913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-comments-2","tag-pp","no-post-thumbnail"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>My Apple Memories | SMB Training<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/my-apple-memories-2\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"My Apple Memories | SMB Training\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"1984: my first computer was an Apple IIC given to me by my parents in 8th grade (i was a very fortunate kid) ($1300). i was so excited when i got a 300baud modem having visions of hacking into banks and government installations after having watched War Games with Mathew Broderick 1984: telling my grandfather he should buy Apple stock. ... 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