Gold collapsing. Bitcoin UP.

[silverbox]

Up, up, up, and up!!

Woot!!

[cypherdoc]

Up, up, up, and up!!

Woot!!

lol!

[cypherdoc]

Up, up, up, and up!!

Woot!!

Apple's lookin a little weak there, brother.

maybe i should say "flacid"...

[silverbox]

Naw, its just resting up for the next big push!

[disclaimer201]

Fixed that for you.

The only problem with AAPL products, is that there is a finite number of people on the planet ridiculously small number of people on the planet who can afford technologically average but unbelievably overpriced products.

[silverbox]

I don't know how I ended up being the AAPL cheerleader in this thread, lol.

I own zero AAPL products, have never owned any, and I think they are about topped out..

oh well.

GO AAPL!!!  lol.

[cypherdoc]

I don't know how I ended up being the AAPL cheerleader in this thread, lol.

I own zero AAPL products, have never owned any, and I think they are about topped out..

oh well.

GO AAPL!!!  lol.

maybe it has to do with this? :

[bitcoinBull]

Up, up, up, and up!!

Woot!!

Looks like PMs not so decoupled after all 

[cypherdoc]

the conspiracy theorist in me thinks the Dow ramp is designed to get the hedge funds out of Apple.

[silverbox]

Naw. its just a lil pullback before it pushes up again..

The global smartphone market isn't saturated yet, AAPL still has a bit of room to run.

[notme]

Naw. its just a lil pullback before it pushes up again..

The global smartphone market isn't saturated yet, AAPL still has a bit of room to run.

But China and India want Samsung, not Apple.

[silverbox]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-16540681

Yeah theres no crowds gathered for iphones or anything..

[notme]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-16540681

Yeah theres no crowds gathered for iphones or anything..

Still, Samsung has 3X the market share for smartphones in China vs. Apple, and it's market share is still growing:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-03-11/iphone-fails-to-gain-china-share-as-samsung-lead-triples-tech.html

Also, iPhones are only capable of the highest speeds on roughly 34% of mobile networks in China.  Samsung already has hardware out for all of the networks.

Sure, the April 24th earnings will get a little boost from the pent-up demand that was released, but growth will certainly slow if not stall.

[silverbox]

When 4g rolls out in China, AAPL will kill Samsung.

[notme]

When 4g rolls out in China, AAPL will kill Samsung.

Why?  I'd still rather have an Android phone.  The Chinese have seen plenty of Samsung Android phones.  What can Apple add that will overtake the first-mover advantage?  Unless their next model blows the world out of the water, Samsung will remain dominant.  They may drop to 2X Apple's market share, but it will take a big surprise to do better than that.

[silverbox]

Its all about the bling..  AAPL is hot, Samsung is not...

Boring




New hotness!!

[notme]

Its all about the bling..  AAPL is hot, Samsung is not...

Boring

http://benchmarkreviews.com/images/reviews/monitors/Samsung_245BW/samsung-logo2.jpg


New hotness!!

http://www.wallpapersdb.org/wallpapers/3d/silver_3d_apple_1280x1024.jpg

Right.....

[miscreanity]

Stocks are down steady up; USD steady below 80; gold and silver are steady up. One day does not make a trend, and the typical CoT reporting games may still have occurred.

Anyway, the dynamic is unfolding exactly as Jim Sinclair, FOFOA, Mike Maloney, et al. have described. Bitcoin is a great protector, but it's still foolish to discount physical precious metals.

Four days.

Equities following a move in gold after a brief, yet obvious, decoupling? That couldn't have anything to do with the QE schizophrenia (backed by a hint of HFT dementia), could it? Maybe another paper gold assault to close the week, or early next week before the next CoT cut-off again (making the commercial open interest look like little has changed)?

What I'm waiting for is the dollar rally that has so far failed to materialise (and probably won't). It should've gone to around 81-82 with the drop in equity markets. Certainly the long bond would've risen, yet it dropped as well. Meanwhile the precious metals are up rather sharply. Even with its continued histrionics, the Euro is up. All this because of talk about QE? Where there's smoke, there's fire.

[cypherdoc]

ooh, Apple's flaccidity continues.  here we come $500!!!!

[cypherdoc]

Charge!