Bottom-fishing at the 257.71 target of this pattern looks so promising that I hate to queer its magic with this semi-public ad. The target looks likely to be reached because the stock never poked above p=266.91 after first penetrating it on the way down. Still, the failure to bounce precisely from the secondary Hidden Pivot (p2=262.31) is more than a little mystifying, since it is highly unlikely the support was front-run. (I’ve masked two coordinates for proprietary reasons). I would call this a back-up-the-truck trade if the target had been disseminated and triggered intraday. As things stand, however, you’ll need to use small-pattern ‘camo’ to get aboard with risk held to a practical minimum. _______ UPDATE (Mar 5): Sunday’s rickisms in this space set a new world record for the number of forehead-slapping errors your editor has committed in a single tout. The 257.71 target boldfaced in the original tout, above, did indeed nail a tradeable low with the eye-popping precision you have come to expect from Rick’s Picks. The trouble is, I used MSFT in the header, but the tout pertained to AAPL. Now here’s where the rickisms grew so thick that some of you may have feared your editor had imbibed a bad dose of LSD; for in fact, the chart included with the tout showed neither Microsoft nor AAPL, but April Gold. Fortunately, or perhaps not, there seems to be only one subscriber who remotely cares about Microsoft, and it is was hhis comment in the chat room about my “janky” tout that prompted this update. To make amends, I’ve replaced the gold chart with one of MSFT so that you can see that things worked out almost precisely according to the forecast. Because the alert subscriber is one of the most experienced traders who frequents the chat room, we’re hopeful that he was not too confused by the appalling string of rickisms to make hay with a Hidden Pivot bullseye that was drum-rolled and proffered with the confidence of Stephen Curry shooting the 3-pointer.
AAPL – Apple Computer (Last:260.25)
Posted on March 1, 2026, 5:19 pm EST
Last Updated March 8, 2026, 3:30 am EDT