The interesting thing about bubbles is that we NEVER really know when they will pop.
Here was the upside of one of our oil bubbles, with chart cut off at 2008.
I recall when oil hit $140 that some analysts were predicting $250 bbl.
This was the upside part of the China bubble, with chart to 2008.
I forget what analysts were predicting at that time, but the bubble was certainly justifiable based on China’s obscene growth rate.
This is AAPL as of yesterday, and a few analysts are predicting AAPL $1000 before it pops.
AAPL is such a monster gorilla that its earnings report on Tuesday after the close (good or bad) will doppler across all stocks and indices.
So consider hedging if you are holding ANYTHING AT ALL beyond Monday’s/Tuesday's close, as all holdings (long or short) will be a bet on AAPL,
and the odds are arguably 50/50.
Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to be happy and solvent by Wednesday.
http://screencast.com/t/s4TYbrtWv
"…You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something … destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life…." [Steve Jobs, Stanford University commencement address, June 2005]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ldt6f7gleDI