[roc]

Apple has an incredibly long and prominent history of having its stock manipulated by traders around the timing of new product events and quarterly earnings statements.

When "today" is near one of those events, you probably don't want to anchor your evaluations of the company to a short-window snapshot of stock performance.

[gfodor]

It was more than a little tongue in cheek since AAPL is getting roiled in the press today and yesterday over probably nothing.