GT Advanced Technology made waves when it made its bankruptcy announcement. Dr. Hung Tran leads readers through some of the essentials of what this actually means for investors.

Who can blame a company executive, a principal shareholder, for dumping his stock when he knows it’s only a matter of time that his company is going bust, when your major client decides not to do business with you?

December E-mini S&Ps (ESZ14 -0.38%) this morning are down another -0.47% as concerns continue about slowing world economic growth.

The GTAT example is a rollercoaster ride that took months to play out and offered numerous clues along the way for technical or fundamental investors to heed. By diversifying your risk across numerous companies using an ETF you would have avoided a great deal of pain in this trade.

The differing cases of CYNK and GTAT: Obviously, such events mainly tend to happen during a stock market bubble, when the guard of investors and analysts alike is down and gullibility reigns.

When you are the most valuable company on the planet, as Apple is, the company will naturally be the target of reporters, or anyone that can benefit from viewers to their online rag.