QUOTE(Liamness @ Feb 19 2021, 11:12 AM)
So you are conveniently missing the fact that it took Apple some very risky moves and plays to get into a stable enough position?
Do you honestly think Apple wasn't a risky investment 7 years ago?
lol.. OK.. hindsight is always 20/20.
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There are mainly 2 types of pump-and-dump scheme conspired by BIG Shark stock manipulators, ie the very quick one like the Gamestop/GME share price being pumped from about US$20 to US$400 over 5 days; ... and the very slow one like the DJI and AAPL share price being pumped up gradually over about 10-20 years or so.
Note that the Dow Jones NY Stock Market had Crashed(down by >50%) in 1974, 1982 and 2008. .......
https://www.macrotrends.net/1319/dow-jones-...istorical-chartThe Business news media are likely part of this pump-and-dump scheme.
In the Free Market, it is easy for BIG Sharks to manipulate stock/share prices according to their news-media-scripted scenario, eg the short-squeeze of GME/Gamestop shares. They become like gods of the Stock Market, eg able to set the date for a pump or a Market Crash.
Eg we can have institutional investors like Hedge-fund/Mutual-fund A, B and C who were holding a horde of millions of Gamestop/GME shares, bought at US$5 in Aug 2020 or earlier. At end Jan 2021, A starts selling a few GME shares to B at US$30 per share. Then B sells the same GME shares to C at US$40. Later C sells back the same to A at US$50 = like a Merry-Go-Round. Rinse and Repeat, either to pump up or down the share prices. Since A,B and C are of the same gang, there was no real loss or profit between them.
....... After pumping up the share price, they dumped/offloaded the bulk of their horde of millions of GME shares to gullible Retail investors at >US$100 per share = profits of >2,000%.
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