On the eve of the Apple Watch launch, seemed like a good time to say Hi.

Any old threads to link?

Are you talking about the Motorola Xoom or the BlackBerry PlayBook in comparison to Apple?

What does it matter unless you made millions off them. To come back and gloat about a company that made you a few thousand or you don't have any ties to is ridiculous. It makes you look petty and small. Since Apple came out with the iPod they have done a good job at creating an ecosystem and marketing it. You really nailed that prediction.

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What does it matter unless you made millions off them. To come back and gloat about a company that made you a few thousand or you don't have any ties to is ridiculous.

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Its hilarious how some people base happiness on how the company that made their cell phones is doing

Can't wait to start my mvis thread like this

Yeah. MVIS.

I'm still holding that shite.

Thanks.

I'll admit I'm somewhat of an Apple hater in that I generally don't care for their products and find their marketing annoying. I was also definitely wrong about what was going to happen with the iPhone this past year. But damn, you are far too dedicated to this company to be a rational investor.

The stock price going up doesn't change the fact that you were an idiot and an a-hole.

Being right for the wrong reasons makes you lucky, not good. Most people were just arguing that that your metrics were pointless.

Post some links, it's always good to see the know it's alls here proven wrong

I could probably name those that gave you shite without even looking at the links.

Most people didn't really think the iPad would take off. I was in that camp until I bought one.

Scoop with AAPL was like rivers with gold. Completely irrational arguments. For instance, he said that Siri would destroy all other devices and they would never catch up. He was also arguing for absurd market shares no matter what his case was. He was wrong about a lot more things than he was right about, he just so happened to be right on the price appreciating.

The "knowitalls" here have made a lot of good (and bad) stock calls. Scoop is just different because he basically just made one call. If you aggregate the information we dismissed because of terrible logic, the board regulars have an awesome track record. Just a few instances:

Rivers: Short the Dow at 7,000 and lever up to buy gold (he claimed to have taken a second mortgage to do so.

Baylor: short the market at ~10,000. That idiot "teacher" believed him and was his cronie. Baylor never returned. Teacher still posts on TD but won't venture to the money talk.

A ton of idiots: Buy Iraqi dinar. Nuff said.

The drive by posters on this board have predicted 25 of the last 2 significant market drops. The board regulars have only suggested pulling a lot of money off of the table once, in late 2007/early 2008. But back in signals were given at many points with the dow below 10,000. I wasn't posting yet, but I had lurked for a long time.

I'll eat crow about being wrong on AAPL, I was definitely wrong at several key points. However, buying puts on AAPL after Jobs died and the stock barely moved was a very lucrative trade. I have also been in AIG for a ~3 years. That has done very well with much less volatility.

The "knowitalls" on this board also suggested being overweight financials in early/mid 2013. That's been a great trade.

Being a great investor means making a lot of picks and being right more than ~60% of the time. Even the best hedge funds would be happy with that kind of success. Scoop made one pick, based on garbage metrics, and is now here to gloat and call himself a great investor. That's a sham.

/rant