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Buy the Rumor Sell the News Apple Computers i-Phone Launch Trade. High Frequency Trading Buy & Sell Scripts and how to trade Apple breakout and sell at the tops of the daily stock chart trends. Apple was set to sell over 10,000,000 iPhones today and we'll cover the stocks knee-jerk reaction.

At StockMarketFunding.com we've featured and highlighted how "High Frequency Trading" has forever changed the stock market. Ever since the Flash Crash the options markets have never been the same and we highlighted that throughout 2010 and 2011. Now we're seeing the dawn of a new and crude enemy that has existed, just in different forms. The "Fake News" story that makes a stock move up or down 3% to 15% in a matter of minutes. Of course in most cases there are no sources and news media insiders are paid or told of a "hot rumor" or "possible development" only to drive a stock price higher or lower. In this breaking story by ZeroHedge we can see the magnitude that "big business" has gone into to manipulte markets both international and domestic. It appears that while we were busy over the past month spreading the Greek pre- and post-bankruptcy balance sheet, and otherwise torturing Excel (something we urge other financial journalists to try once in a while - go ahead, it doesn't bite. In fact, it is almost as friendly as your favorite Powerpoint) our peer at such reputable financial publications as Forbes, and many others, were laying of carbon-based reporters and replacing them with... robots.  As Mediabistro reports, "Forbes has joined a group of 30 publishers using Narrative Science software to write computer-generated stories. Here's more about the program, used in one corner of Forbes' website: ""Narrative Science has developed a technology solution that creates rich narrative content from data. Narratives are seamlessly created from structured data sources and can be fully customized to fit a customer's voice, style and tone. Stories are created in multiple formats, including long form stories, headlines, Tweets and industry reports with graphical visualizations.""  In other words, with well over 70% of stock trading now done by robots, we have gotten to a point where robots write headlines and stories read, reacted to and traded

Amazon's "Fire" vs Apple's "iPhone" Pro's & Cons Business & Stock Review. Amazon's 7-Inch Tablet Called "Fire" Will Cost $199 will Rival Apple Iphone. Amazon is unveiling today a tablet, called the Fire, that may not have all the same features as an iPad, but will start at a much lower price. According to a Bloomberg report citing Amazon executives, it will cost $199, compared to the iPad, which starts at $499. Initially, it appears the Kindle Fire will be more of a color version of the Kindle e-reader than a true competitor to the iPad. The device will have a 7-inch display (3-inches shy of the iPad), and will run Google's Android software, but it won't have an embedded camera or microphone. Additionally, it will come with Wi-Fi, but not 3G. All Things D's Peter Kafka is live in New York to cover all of the proceedings. As rumored previously, the device will come with a 30-day free trial of Amazon Prime, the Seattle company's $79 annual membership, which includes free two-day shipping, but also some content, like streaming video.