DISQUS

Zach,

Thanks for your insights.

You are one very smart dude.

Thanks again.

David Forjan

In hindsight, it seems only certain that AAPL stock price would have been driven to Max Pain. Because the big boys could. The wider the swings in stock price the more money they make as the price goes up and down, up and down. Your article hit the nail on the head. I guess that the big boys have been manipulating markets for eons, to whatever extent they can. Just look at oil. And people have been making accusations about this manipulation for eons also. Actually, from a profit-making, investing point of view, it's better for all investors to take advantage of their manipulations, and the knowledge of them, just like them making money on these manipulations, rather than trying to change this practice, which is just one act in the theater of a capitalist economy. They are just capitalizing on what they can do. Sad, but true.
Your article is welcome, as it serves to educate other investors about this practice, and ergo, help make them more immune from losses they might have incurred had they not been aware of these manipulations.

Well done.

david forjan

It seems to me that maybe, just maybe, the big boys are slamming AAPL to Max Pain, because they easily can, given the circumstances. And if AAPL earnings WOW everyone, these same big boys will have bought in by then and make all that money on the upside; making it both ways, And if word leaked out that AAPL earnings will WOW everyone, that makes for that much more incentive to MAX out the stock price PAIN today.
Not having a crystal ball, we'll just have to wait and see.