Buy Apple Stock Now? 3 Important Metrics To Watch

TheStreet2021-05-19

As Apple stock remains stuck near $125 apiece, might now be a good time to buy shares? The Apple Maven looks at three key metrics that may provide a clue. Following a “mini flash crash” in the last 10...

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FuHeng
2021-05-20
FuHeng
Cool
CL777
2021-05-20
CL777
Buy more at this attractive price
Kuxz2021
2021-05-19
Kuxz2021
Cool infor
- pinkishmin:
  good
CHOOTC
2021-05-19
CHOOTC
Wow
- Junias:
  Wow
Topwong
2021-05-19
Topwong
Of cos - stock up on the apples!
CHOOTC
2021-05-19
CHOOTC
Hold for long term I guess..but when Federal start tightening QE, rate hike will tumble again....then buying opportunity comes again...
- Ljoney:
  Nice, comment pl
- Tourmaline:
  Ok

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stock up on the apples!&nbsp;","listText":"Of cos - stock up on the apples!&nbsp;","text":"Of cos - stock up on the apples!","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":1,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/197129293","repostId":1148500659,"repostType":4,"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"langContent":"EN"},{"id":197129307,"gmtCreate":1621434415809,"gmtModify":1704357617787,"author":{"id":"3567209681027469","authorId":"3567209681027469","name":"CHOOTC","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/a825ae81d7f171dbbad58815b5ddda79","vip":1,"crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":1},"htmlText":"Hold for long term I guess..but when Federal start tightening QE, rate hike will tumble again....then buying opportunity comes again...","listText":"Hold for long term I guess..but when Federal start tightening QE, rate hike will tumble again....then buying opportunity comes again...","text":"Hold for long term I guess..but when Federal start tightening QE, rate hike will tumble again....then buying opportunity comes again...","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":4,"commentSize":2,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/197129307","repostId":1148500659,"repostType":2,"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"comments":[{"id":4382194,"gmtCreate":1621460962528,"gmtModify":1680789759215,"authorId":3581591015314710,"author":{"id":3581591015314710,"authorId":3581591015314710,"name":"Ljoney","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/8376cac12c1b661feac4d507eb1379e4","vip":1,"crmLevel":3,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"individualDisplayBadges":[]},"repliedAuthorId":0,"objectId":197129307,"type":1,"supId":0,"prevId":0,"content":"Nice, comment pl","text":"Nice, comment pl","html":"Nice, comment pl"},{"id":4381220,"gmtCreate":1621439054968,"gmtModify":1680789743600,"authorId":3575675330726225,"author":{"id":3575675330726225,"authorId":3575675330726225,"name":"Tourmaline","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/f16bc99b5c482ec75b42f0d04b4b3155","vip":1,"crmLevel":3,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"individualDisplayBadges":[]},"repliedAuthorId":0,"objectId":197129307,"type":1,"supId":0,"prevId":0,"content":"Ok","text":"Ok","html":"Ok"}],"langContent":"EN"}],"isCommentEnd":false,"newsSizeData":{"likeSize":23,"commentSize":11,"repostSize":0,"favoriteSize":0,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false},"APP":{"userAgent":"Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; ClaudeBot/1.0; +claudebot@anthropic.com)","isDev":false,"isTTM":true,"deviceId":"web-server-community-laohu8-v3","version":"4.24.2","shortVersion":"4.24.2","platform":"web","vendor":"web","appName":"ttm","isIOS":false,"isAndroid":false,"isTiger":false,"isTHS":false,"isWeiXin":false,"isWeiXinMini":false,"isWeiBo":false,"isQQ":false,"isBaiduSwan":false,"isBaiduBox":false,"isDingTalk":false,"isToutiao":false,"isOnePlus":false,"isHuaWei":false,"isXiaomi":false,"isXiaomiWebView":false,"isOppo":false,"isVivo":false,"isSamsung":false,"isMobile":false},"href":"/m/news/1148500659"}