Monday, August 27th 2018

AMD Short-Sellers Pwned, Lose $177.5 Million in a Day, $2.67 Billion Over the Year

Not long ago, droves of cybersecurity research-backed short-sellers wrote obituaries of AMD after buying themselves shorting positions against the AMD stock on the backs of "Spectre-rivaling" security vulnerabilities comically named "Ryzenfall," et al. With AMD stock closing at 12-year highs of above $25.26 on Monday, those short-sellers (who now have to cough up interest on their shorting positions), bled $177.5 million in a single day. On Monday's peak stock price, short-sellers were a staggering $370 million down in the gutters. AMD's gains throughout 2018 impoverished short-sellers by over $2.67 billion.
Source: MarketWatch
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26 Comments on AMD Short-Sellers Pwned, Lose $177.5 Million in a Day, $2.67 Billion Over the Year

#2
MrGenius
Ouch! That's gotta hurt! L M F A O!!! :roll:
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#3
Caring1
I wonder how much of that "cyber security research" was paid for by Intel, rumours can cause stock prices to plummet.
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#4
Foobario
Caring1I wonder how much of that "cyber security research" was paid for by Intel, rumours can cause stock prices to plummet.
Most likely, all of it. Lol
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#5
Aquinus
Resident Wat-man
Womp womp.
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#6
eidairaman1
The Exiled Airman
Trying to be Fear Mongerers get Justice served to them Ice Cold
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#7
TheLaughingMan
$#&^ I should have kept my AMD stock instead of selling it all last year.
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#8
Mussels
Freshwater Moderator
TheLaughingMan$#&^ I should have kept my AMD stock instead of selling it all last year.
contact w1zzard if you need to change your name to TheSaltyMan
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#9
eidairaman1
The Exiled Airman
Musselscontact w1zzard if you need to change your name to TheSaltyMan
TheCryingMan
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#10
Mussels
Freshwater Moderator
got his new avatar ready and everything

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#11
trparky
Man, I wish I had bought some AMD stock back then. I could have easily doubled my money.
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#12
Prima.Vera
nVidia stocks are bigger than apple's ?? Really ??
But those stocks looks like peanuts compared to the ones from Amazon. Almost 2000USD :twitch::twitch::twitch::twitch:
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#13
Steevo
I sold my stock at close to 13 and made money, wish I would have left it, but it financed some.... a lot of fun and some current endeavors.
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#14
Flyordie
1,000 shares at $7.08. 250 Shares @ $1.82... I'm doing ok. lol.
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#15
R0H1T
Prima.VeranVidia stocks are bigger than apple's ?? Really ??
But those stocks looks like peanuts compared to the ones from Amazon. Almost 2000USD :twitch::twitch::twitch::twitch:
Apples to oranges, would you rather have a tenth of Koenigsegg (Berkshire Hathaway?) car or all of Tesla (Alphabet?) :pimp:
Flyordie1,000 shares at $7.08. 250 Shares @ $1.82... I'm doing ok. lol.
I'd say you're doing a lot more than OK :toast:
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#17
bonehead123
well shucks, then I guess my 3k shares are like totally worthless now.....

hahaha, nOt.... considering I only paid a little over $1 for them, me thinks me will keep 'em around fo a rainy day :D
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#18
medi01
trparkyMan, I wish I had bought some AMD stock back then. I could have easily doubled my money.
Real "back then" it was below $2. So, you could have multiplied your fortune by more than 10.
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#20
FordGT90Concept
"I go fast!1!11!1!"
The GloFo announcement could trigger a sell off at AMD. Any company that relies on process tech advancement is quickly becoming a risky investment.

Edit: AMD already announced they're moving 7nm orders to TSMC so, no, no sell off at AMD...yet.
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#21
john_
"AMD Short-Sellers Pwned, Lose $177.5 Million in a Day, $2.67 Billion Over the Year"


I guess some people might have to cancel their RTX 2080 Ti pre order.
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#22
Dbiggs9
AMD Target is $50 late 2019.
I Said 20-30 in 2018.



Feb 27, 2017
#65



I'm still buying. Google data centers! Chinese data centers! IoT. 20-30 is a real target in the next year.
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#23
windwhirl
When I read "AMD short-sellers Pwned...", I had to resist the urge to laugh diabolically...
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#24
Aquinus
Resident Wat-man
trparkyMan, I wish I had bought some AMD stock back then. I could have easily doubled my money.
If you invested when it was between 1.50 and 2.00, you would have made bank by now and it would have been a heck of a lot more than double. 2.00 to 25.00 is an increase by a factor of 12.5. Before taxes and fees, that means 4k USD would have become 50k USD so, just let that sink in a bit. :p
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#25
Boosnie
trparkyMan, I wish I had bought some AMD stock back then. I could have easily doubled my money.
Yeah.
I made some phone calls to put some pennies into AMD a couple of years ago but no online service was managing it in italy.
Intel co course, NVIDIA of course but no AMD.
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