Agricultural crops report 2011

The USDA released its planting intentions report this morning, which shows corn acres planted for the 2011/12 crop season expected to be up 4.5% YoY at 92.178 mln acres, slightly above the initial USDA projection of 92 mln. Soybean plantings are expected to be 76.609 mln, down 1 YoY%, vs. 78 consensus. Wheat plantings are expected to be up 8.2% at 58.021 mln acres vs. 55.5 mln consensus.

Applie is up how much versus the S & P as of 3/2/11? See the %

Apple’s up 8.2%, year-to-date, versus 3.2% for the S&P 500.

Apple price projections by the analysis

The following is a list of Analyst Targets for AAPL reported in 2011. The average is $442 ($451 for those released on 1/19 or after). There are many analysts who have not updated since earnings...many more upgrades to come.
Zacks 2/9/2011 $422
Canaccord Genuity 2/8/2011 $460
Susquehanna 2/7/2011 $465
Needham 2/7/2011 $450
Piper Jaffray 1/22/2011 $483
UBS 1/20/2011 $465
Barclays Capital 1/19/2011 $450
Deutsche Bank 1/19/2011 $440
Goldman Sachs 1/19/2011 $450
JP Morgan 1/19/2011 $450
Kaufman Bros 1/19/2011 $438
Oppenheimer 1/19/2011 $425
RBC Capital Mkts 1/19/2011 $425
Stifel Nicolaus 1/19/2011 $420
Ticonderoga 1/19/2011 $550
Wedbush 1/19/2011 $430
JMP Securities 1/10/2011 $400
Brigantine 1/4/2011 $400
Bank of America 1/2/2011 $420
ISI Group 1/2/2011 $400

Macau's updates

Following is a summary of Macau’s December hotel occupancy rates released by the Macau Statistics and Census Service.

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                     Dec.     Nov.     Oct.    Sept.     Aug.     July   Year-to
                     2010     2010     2010     2010     2010     2010      Date
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Occupancy Rate      87.7%    82.8%    78.4%    74.1%    82.4%    79.9%     79.8%
 Hotel              88.5%    83.5%    79.0%    74.7%    83.0%    80.6%     80.5%
  5-star hotels     86.6%    80.6%    78.7%    75.3%    82.3%    79.8%     79.2%
  4-star hotels     94.4%    91.0%    80.5%    73.2%    85.0%    82.2%     83.8%
  3-star hotels     88.9%    84.1%    80.1%    78.1%    84.5%    81.8%     82.5%
  2-star hotels     83.4%    83.4%    72.2%    63.9%    79.0%    78.5%     76.7%
 Guest Houses       60.2%    58.6%    58.9%    55.0%    59.9%    57.1%     56.6%
                   --------- Percentage Point Change from Year Earlier ---------
Occupancy Rate        5.5      4.5      4.6      2.0      2.2     12.2       n/a
 Hotel                5.4      4.4      4.5      1.7      1.9     12.2       n/a
  5-star hotels       5.4      6.0      4.4      1.6      1.8     10.8       n/a
  4-star hotels       6.1      2.8      4.7     -1.8     -2.0     11.5       n/a
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                     Dec.     Nov.     Oct.    Sept.     Aug.     July   Year-to
                     2010     2010     2010     2010     2010     2010      Date
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                   --------- Percentage Point Change from Year Earlier ---------
  3-star hotels       2.3     -2.2      1.4      3.0      3.1     10.1       n/a
  2-star hotels      11.7     14.0     13.8     15.6     20.2     38.6       n/a
 Guest Houses         5.9      5.7      6.0      9.0      9.3     11.4       n/a
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Note: Prior months’ figures are taken from previous releases and
may be revised. 

Oil plays in the US

The Bakken shale region of North Dakota and Montana, recent estimates of this region has reserves of 24 billion barrels of oil. Bakken is with Hess (HES) which owns some 900,000 acres in the Bakken region and is investing $1.8B in 2011 alone to develop them. Other Bakken plays: EOG Resources (EOG), Whiting Petroleum (WLL), Brigham Exploration (BEXP), Oasis Petroleum (OAS) and Northern Oil and Gas (NOG). But Halliburton (HAL) is having more demand for its services than ever before

Apples falling

The apple doesn't grow on the tree forever

Apples drop when they are ripe
The time is now
Apple puts
What do you think?

Where is the market headed? Where is your ego?

Financials up ......
Financials down........
The market seems to be moving all over the place.

Pick an equity, pick a direction and be convicted of your choice. However don't let your ego get in the way of your trade.The way to combat that is to have a stop loss in mind.
Your not wrong you just have to know the direction of your pick.

Step in and step out but have firm footing and don't let your emotions take hold of you. The market is a mind psych so stay grounded and you will land working your way to accumulating your profits.