Goldman Sachs added Apple (AAPL) to its Americas conviction buy list, saying shares will likely benefit from the launch of the company's third-generation iPhone next month, as well as from the sharply higher projections of iPhone sales for the second-half of the year.

There are thousands of books on how to better pick stocks and how to buy stocks, but never really many on how to sell them. Looking back at my experiences in investing, I rarely made out and out losing picks. Instead, it was more a matter of not selling correctly to capture profits. In this post, I look at how to develop a sell strategy and the most important aspects of a strong sell strategy.

The IBD 100 is up 228.5% compared to SP 500’s 49.5% since 4/18/08

-IBD 85-85 and IBD 100 were down for the week (-.9% compared to Nassy .8%) but they were up over 2.5% on Friday compared to Nassy down .2%.

-This appears to be rotation of some sorts out of commodities into some new sectors

-Internet-Network Solutions up 9% this week

-Computer Software-Design up 5% this week

An interview on Yahoo!Tech Ticker Eric Savitz of Tech Trader Daily (part of Barron's Online) who has often been criticized of being anti-Apple in his leanings. He denies this and is only claiming that he's hoping to provide greater transparency in Apple news as he feels that the reporting on the company is often skewed by Apple zealots. I agree.

Do you know where AAPL is headed? A technical analysis of the stock.................

ChangeWave’s latest consumer survey shows a sudden huge pullback in electronics purchasing by U.S. consumers – the largest one since they began measuring spending trends back in 2002.

Only 19% of survey respondents say they'll spend more on electronics over the next 90 days compared to 33% who will spend less – an unprecedented sign of weakness in this space.

Despite recent turmoil in the IT sector for 2008, I contend that this is now where you want to be. Reasoning here follows that the financial sector is struggling to keep its bad news buried, the housing market is shambles and even retailers are struggling to sustain growth.

A humorous post describing the volatile market week of January 21-January 25, 2008 as seen through the eyes of various stock market bloggers.

Apple’s shares took a turn for the worst today in after hours trading, falling nearly 11%. First, Jobs failed to enlighten Apple fans with the Mac Air Notebook. Then Apple said they expect weaker outlook for the second quarter placing huge weight on the stock.

Apple's earnings disappointment (guidance) took a bite out of shareholder sentiment and pocketbooks today. Apple's stock was immediately repriced to the downside - returning it to its first major tier of support at the confluence of the one year average and the August 07 Earnings announcement at 130-131........

I thought I would share a report I found on Infectious Greed. These are the top ten stocks by dollars traded in 2007. It will be interesting to see how these compare in 2008. Will they still be heavily traded?

Symbol Company Rank Last Year Change
AAPL Apple Inc. 1 2 1

In much the same way it upended online distribution of music, Apple may now be poised to redefine the way movies are rented online. According to published reports, Apple (AAPL) and Fox (NWS) plan to bring movie rentals to Apple's popular iTunes Store, and through that to its family of iPod media players and the iPhone.