in an earlier post, triny asked people to buy amd shares. he sounded like the people who pitch multi-level marketing.
who's gonna take responsibility if people actually listen to him, buy, and lose money?
i hope he was kidding...
I usually check AMD share prices several times a week, and they sometimes follow a somewhat predictable cycle, so it is possible to speculate & make money as he
claims he did. Currently we seem to be in a correction cycle so I expect more declines in tech stocks across the board, although AMD stock usually has a greater percentage decline than Intel's. So I would wait until after it bottoms out if you are seriously considering speculating. And keep an eye on the Euro and Chinese news since bad news there spooks the market, whereas domestic good news moves it upwards, sometimes.
However AMD is more risky - their stock prices declined from about $40 a share in 2006 to a low of $1.63 in 2009 IIRC, so all those people who bought at $20, $15, $12, etc on the expectation of recovery pretty much bailed out at $4 and lost most of their "investment". Over on AMDZone there were a number of them, who believed the hype espoused by Scientia (former mod) and others, and figured no way could AMD lose further marketshare and value. Currently on MSN Money, AMD's stockscouter rating is 4/10, and I've never seen it higher than 6/10. In contrast, Intel's is much higher, usually double AMD's.
Of course, for the record Triny also claimed to have an i5-2500 machine, which given his acerbic comments about how bad it is, either he is lying about that or is inept and cannot get it running properly, or is just trolling for effect which is my personal guess. Take yer pick
😛. At least Baron, when he posted here, said he was forced to use some Intel machine at work, as he would never buy one and "support the beast"

But he too complained about how lousy his Intel machine was, whereas his dated PII-955 machine "rocked" with megataskiing, "smoothiness", blah-blah. Triny does not appear to have discovered those trolling points yet
