Although this latest buying binge is unwarranted, ill-considered and reckless, it’s hard for me to imagine AAPL not reaching the 214.30 target shown. That’s slightly lower than the one at 214.58 given here earlier, and it can serve as a minimum upside objective for the very near-term.  However, we should be prepared to get short via put options if and when the stock gets there, since the Hidden Pivot looks sufficiently clear to repel a charge. ______ UPDATE (August 13, 7:14 p.m.): The engineered short-squeeze on the opening bar died a hair short of 211.00, a new all-time high. Subscribers who have ridden this rally with my 214.30 target in mind should be using a ‘dynamic’ trailing stop to keep risk/reward in a 1:3 relationship. That means with AAPL peaking today at 210.95, a 209.83 trailing stop would have been in effect. The target remains valid nonetheless, although we’ll put it out of mind if the stock drops to 204.51. ______ UPDATE (August 16, 5:58 p.m.): Today’s short-squeeze pushed the stock to within 49 cents of the rally target we’ve been using for the last couple of weeks. (With the stock trading $15 lower, I wrote as follows: ‘It’s hard for me to imagine AAPL not reaching [this] target’.)  I hope subscribers made hay on the way there. And now, here’s a chart that shows why I’m not very eager to short AAPL at these levels. The 226.26 target looks like an easy winner to me.