Several reasons to buy AMD now:
1) AMD has been losing business to Intel for the past couple years, this is true, however, Intel hasn't been very progressive with their lead as their share prices haven't gone up significantly. This leaves room for AMD to easily regain its previous standings.
2) A couple days ago, AMD/ATI announced the release of their newest Graphics Processing Unit, the most powerful GPU to date. Even when beaten down to 5 dollar shares, they can still manage to maintain their...

While I agree that there has been some resistance the $180.00 level recently, the stock is marking a pretty strong surge and shows no signs of slowing down. All of the technical indicators show this stock is still on it way up. Its been trading above its 200 day MA for the last three days and the Candle Stick charts don't show any obvious indications of a turn around. The only fly in the ointment is today's increase in oil prices that might send all the tech analysis right out the window but aside...

If you are looking for a practically riskless investment, buy UYG. This ETF tracks the performance of the major financial institutions and doubles its increases (or decreases). By buying this ETF, you remove company specific risks and the only way that you can practically lose your money is if the US financial system completely collapses. That however is highly unlikely... Government will definitely step in to prevent this from happening. When financials recover, you have the potential of doubling...