Tonight’s flukey-looking price bar (see inset) may not be real, but bad prints have been known to influence actuality in ways that could spell trouble for Apple on Friday. Although the company’s earnings for Q3 were hardly anything to be embarrassed about, the mood of the day could nevertheless be hostile toward any earnings report no matter how good. From a technical standpoint, and assuming the possibly bad print will become destiny, my worst-case target for the near term is the 571.93 target of the pattern shown.
