AAPL is 12.64% of Nasdaq 100 (NQ, NDX,QQQQ)...so pays to watch where it goes intraday...if you are daytrading the NQ,NDX or QQQQ...thoughts, feedback, insights...?
of course thats important. I would be paying attention to the top 3-5 NDX 100 stocks when trading NQ, NDX or QQQQ AAPL GOOG RIMM
What do you watch for? Aren't any differences between AAPL's movement and NQ's getting arbed instantly?
ya i bought QID yesterday but dumped this morning, looks to keep moving uip, may go long aple this afternnon
A few articles pointed it out over the last 2 months as for any info relating to these gains can be found here, notice that the chart only dates to June, since June AAPL has gained another $65 google another $175. These 2 alone have made up a large % of gains in the NDX. If 2008 isnt the year for AAPL, RIMM, AMZN or GOOG it wont be a year for the NASDAQ as well. Symbol Name 3/5/07 Close 6/28/07 Close Net Change Points Net Change % % of Overall Move in NDX Cumulative % NDX Nasdaq-100 Index 1712.94 1931.67 218.73 12.77% AAPL Apple 86.27 120.56 34.29 39.75% 21.63% GOOG Google 440.81 525.01 84.2 19.10% 6.20% INTC Intel 19.10 23.92 4.82 25.24% 5.13% 32.96% QCOM Qualcomm 39.14 43.46 4.32 11.04% 4.54% AMZN Amazon 37.04 68.89 31.85 85.99% 4.53% MSFT Microsoft 27.54 29.83 2.29 8.32% 3.94% ORCL Oracle 16.37 19.85 3.48 21.26% 3.90% 49.88% RIMM Research in Motion 134.44 165.55 31.11 23.14% 3.03% PCAR Paccar 67.78 87.45 19.67 29.02% 2.86% CSCO Cisco 25.44 27.85 2.41 9.47% 2.73% DELL Dell 22.53 28.45 5.92 26.28% 2.59% CHRW CH Robinson 49.97 53.16 3.19 6.38% 2.49% NVDA Nvidia 28.74 41.99 13.25 46.10% 2.47% 66.05%
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