MAMEWorld Forums - The Loony Bin - Re: Thoughts on the whole Gamestop stock thing?

I've been watching at a distance with amusement, but won't do anything more. I leave the investment analytics to my wife (who has a finance degree) and others. The one and only time I decided to "play the market" was back in the early '90s while in college. In one of my investment classes, we were given the task of writing on our experiences on a mock investment. At the time, I was very conservative, so I chose paper stock...as in actual paper milling. Shortly after "investing", a movement started pushing through about the destruction of rain forests and such, and my virtual stock plummeted to values that I could never have recovered from. Good thing it was only virtual, but I learned my lesson. Years later, thinking it was only a single bad luck, I actually considered investing in 3DFX - good thing I didn't go through with it. And, in the mid-2000's, I also considered buying into AMD (around the time they bought ATI), and was fortunate I did not commit as it would have been a disaster. As they say, 3 virtual strikes, and I am out.