“It’s no shock to us that our clients hold close to $19 billion dollars in Apple stock (enough scratch to buy 63.5 million iPhone 6 devices, if you’re curious),” Nicole Sherrod, Managing Director of Trading at TD Ameritrade, blogs. “On any given day, they account for roughly 10% of the total trading volume of AAPL. In a smartphone market where Android is the majority leader, our clients route 75% of their mobile trades through an Apple device. They love the company. They love the products. They love the stock. So when it comes to behavioral sentiment about the stock, our clients make for an excellent benchmark.”
“Social sentiment data seems to validate my assumption that Apple Watch is not going to be as in demand as previous Apple product launches,” Sherrod writes. “I hope I’m wrong. I always want a win for Apple because it’s the number one most widely held stock for our client base.”
“With that, I thought it would be interesting to take a closer look at how retail traded AAPL through the course of recent announcements,” Sherrod writes. “Because these aren’t just Apple shareholders. They’re also Apple product consumers.”
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MacDailyNews Take: “Social sentiment data” is meaningless in this case. The average person simply does not yet underatnd that they will be listing after Apple Watch quite soon.
A lot of times, people don’t know what they want until you show it to them. – Steve Jobs
“Because these aren’t just Apple shareholders. They’re also Apple product consumers.”
That don’t have a clue about Apple’s indisputable champion record, as a leading innovator that has no rival in any way.
MDN take needs some proofreading.
Why mist you point that out? 😛
becouse i can
Still not fixed yet. lol
What do you expect from MDN? Do you think that they would strive for the detailed excellence that made Apple what it is today? This is MDN we are talking about here.
> Apple Watch is not going to be as in demand as previous Apple product launches… I hope I’m wrong.
You are wrong. Hope you’re happy. Apple Watch will FAR surpass all previous first year results.
Social sentiment????”… Another survay concluded that 40% of iphone owners are interested in purchasing an apple watch !
I feel, initially, supply is going to be the problem… Not demand .
I wanted to comment on the ads that redirect me to the App Store whenever I try to browse with my phone. It has made this site totally unusable on my iPhone. Please fix this. Here’s an article about it – maybe Apple will fix it, but you could pick a different ad provider, because they are trashing your site.
http://9to5mac.com/2015/03/18/safari-app-store-redirect/
Download and use the MDN app, instead, to avoid the ads.
Many people have sent comments to MDN, and they responded recently. Long story short, some rogue entities are tied into some of the ad services and they are posting ads that automatically redirect your browser. MDN claims to be doing everything that it can to eliminate those ads/ad networks.
Matthew up above has made a point a critique, and goodness knows that I’ve made a few myself, a lot more than I usually do. That’s fine and dandy but I’d also like to reiterate that these are minor points. Heck I love this site, the community and the people that run it are top notch, don’t forget that.
To that point I’d like to note and applaud MDN for recently posting items out of the normal business hours. I’ve noticed it a while back, some items posted during the evening and a few over the weekend. That gets my thumbs up at least for me, and certainly I appreciate the weekend exchanges, less rush and more time for reflective thought.
So as an investor I do love Apple, but I also love this site, it’s the right stuff. There will always be stuff to fix and clean up.
All right I’m done.
I noticed that too, MDN posting on weekends. They hardly ever used to do that, maybe they have an intern now? I mean, they can’t rely on Fred Mertz and a handful of other volunteer spotters forever. The number of Apple stories on the net keeps increasing, probably because Apple itself is increasing in size and influence so dramatically. So everbody and their uncle wants a piece of that, I get that. Too bad so many of them are maggots.
Thanks Road Warrior. If I didn’t love this site, the ad situation wouldn’t bother me. Funny thing – the site works great on a Mac… so it’s just a problem on my phone. Hopefully the phone ad situation is resolved soon.
So far, I’m not listing after an Apfle Witch just yet