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Dark days, AMD share price at lowest ever.

beany_bot said:
Hello. Do you remember ....um... the BANKS?? Too big to fail... caused a global collapse! No company is too big to fail. Any business can fail. Thankfully AMD are on the up.
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I don't think any company is too big to fail.
The banks were/are too important to society/capitalism to be allowed to fail. One could say if a bank went under then savers would lose their savings and borrowers (loans and mortgages) wouldn't have to pay their borrowed money back - yeah, that wouldn't happen :D
Nobody would bail out AMD if they failed, BUT would be bought out by another company most likely before they went under. That's not quite the same as being bailed out.

Hopefully AMD are improving, even if it's just to be more attractive to a potential suitor/buyer further down the line, one with deep pockets to help fund better R&D.
 
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humbug said:
They are doing pretty well at the moment, i'm surprised the upward trend has lasted this long and it got another boost over the last couple of days for some reason, someone know something we don't?

I wonder if it will go over $5

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I think AMD are getting a lot of help from NVidia at the moment.

NVidia - "the 1080 runs at 67c"

The press - "FE cards throttle inside case"

:D:D:D:D
 
beany_bot said:
Hello. Do you remember ....um... the BANKS?? Too big to fail... caused a global collapse! No company is too big to fail. Any business can fail. Thankfully AMD are on the up.
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Yeah I'm certainly not prophesying AMD's demise but it would be naive to think they are to big to fail - some of our suppliers at work have done exactly that around the 2009-2011 period who were of comparable stature to AMD.

With the economy as it was at the time they were picked over for anything of value rather than sold off intact and potentially same would happen to AMD with the liabilities involved.
 
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humbug said:
It will go up and down and up and down and....

Its used for shorting, people follow AMD, they keep up with all thats going on with them, they study and wait for a time when AMD beat expectations or are launching a new product, often writing poisonous and utterly insane articles about AMD on places like Seeking Alpha and watch for the stock price to bottom out (usually around $2) and then invest just before the (good news they know is coming) and sell when they think the stock price has reached about as high as it will go, usually at least +50%, often double money and sometime even higher.

wait and soon start the whole thing all over again.

This is why no one in their right mind believes anything written about AMD and many other tech companies on investor blogs and news sites.

Welcome to shorting! secretes out....
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That isn't shorting a stock.

Shorting involves "borrowing" someone's stock at a position in the market, lets call it in AMD's case USD$4. You are extended this stock holding on credit. You then sell part of the stock or in full at that price betting as well as trying to influence a movement downward in the stock price.

If you are successful and what you sold at $4 ends up at $2 you buy the number of stocks back that you borrowed and transfer them back to the holder you borrowed them from and you keep the difference. Another term for this type of trading is CFD or Contract For Difference. You can make a ****load or lose everything you own, it's not for the faint hearted and light of wallet.
 
Tipped them as likely to rise significantly over the next year almost a year ago to a mate who trades... I'd be kicking myself for not taking my own advise if I'd hd any money to buy some with. Luckily I was skint so couldn't have done it anyway :p (Then again, I've made some bad tips before too, not sure if they balance out or not!)
 
David Bisset said:
Tipped them as likely to rise significantly over the next year almost a year ago to a mate who trades... I'd be kicking myself for not taking my own advise if I'd hd any money to buy some with. Luckily I was skint so couldn't have done it anyway :p (Then again, I've made some bad tips before too, not sure if they balance out or not!)
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I don't know what the price was at the time but had you invested you'd be celebrating right now, in don't think it was much higher than $2 a year ago, its now over $5.
 
I've avoided team red simply because of the shoddy drivers (catalysts, what ever their called) and the fact their cards are always running hotter and louder.

Pay the premium for a better card and buy nVidia.
 
agnes said:
I've avoided team red simply because of the shoddy drivers (catalysts, what ever their called) and the fact their cards are always running hotter and louder.

Pay the premium for a better card and buy nVidia.
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I've had more issues with Nvidia drivers than i have had with my last card, a 290. over 2 years owning the 290 it never put a foot wrong, 100% solid, installed drivers and forgotten about.

Not that this or any of those issues are worth a mention, unless i see silly comments like that.
 
He has a point most of their cards do tend to use more power and give off more heat than Nvidia. It's certainly been the case with the 7950 and R9 290 I had.

Fortunately their RX 480 seems nice and low powered so in theory won't be pumping out excessive heat. They will sell loads and their shares will rise further! :P
 
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