{"id":22481,"date":"2012-12-16T18:18:45","date_gmt":"2012-12-16T23:18:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/?p=22481"},"modified":"2016-09-20T19:47:00","modified_gmt":"2016-09-20T23:47:00","slug":"nasdaq-100-top-holding-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/16\/nasdaq-100-top-holding-performance\/","title":{"rendered":"Nasdaq 100 &#8211; Top Holding Performance (Apple is the Key)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The NASDAQ 100 is a market weighted index and as such the top holdings are highly concentrated. In fact 56% of the total holdings are in the top ten positions.<\/p>\n<p>Apple (AAPL) is a whopping 18% of the weighting and why there is some much movement of the index when Apple gains and falls.<\/p>\n<p>Over the past month, the index (QQQ is the ETF) has <!--more-->risen 4.29%, even with Apple pulling it down by close to 0.60%. Not bad.<\/p>\n<p>If Apple starts to pick up again, this could be a place to look for some upside into the end of the year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/andrewhorowitz\" class=\"twitter-follow-button\">Follow @andrewhorowitz<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/QQQholdings-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22570\" alt=\"QQQholdings\" src=\"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/QQQholdings-1.jpg\" width=\"581\" height=\"261\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NASDAQ 100 is a market weighted index and as such the top holdings are highly concentrated. In fact 56% of the total holdings are in the top ten positions. Apple (AAPL) is a whopping 18% of the weighting and why there is some much movement of the index when Apple gains and falls. Over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12,42],"tags":[490],"class_list":["post-22481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-markets","category-stocks","tag-stocks","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}