The news will be driving the market this week - it already started last week and forced AAPL price down into the forecast zone from my last post
Futures are already in the negative for all 3 major US indices ahead of the Monday market open and so are the ASIA indices. that can be a hint for an open to the downside. If AAPL opens with a gap down, this may scare some longs and also hit stop losses & trailing stops, then we get an accelerated move down that can't be balanced by those who are looking to buy on the dip - a week that opens like that may take us to the $290 - $292 range. But that's only one of many possible scenarios - will see.
* it's hard to tell what happens after but we still maintain the same projection levels, and the projected mid-march target for now - as my most probable scenario - until more details of the price structure develop.
* note that the long terms view continues to be positive for AAPL especially in an election year where the "growing US stock market" is expected to be a tag line - but not before we see a short-term correction that may have started already - driving the stock down to a level that is favorable for accumulation.
i have a small short position (using March puts) that i expect won't stay on for more than a week or 2.