That accords too much credit to their actions.
I think it is as simple as this. Brainchip now has over 40,000 shareholders based on the latest Annual Report. Somewhere between 30 to 40 thousand are retail investors. Just like you and me.
If they put up an add saying come and pay us money for our recommendations and you and I went and joined we would not be very happy if what they then told us was buy Brainchip.
So what they are doing is using fear the most powerful human emotion to try and get some of the 30 to 40 thousand known technology investors to respond and pay them money and give them a nice warm fussy feeling that they have been clever by signing up and no longer being conned by Brainchip and the 1,000 Eyes.
As marketing campaigns go in this space, it is a time honoured classic technique. MF have stuck to it for years.
Pick a popular retail investor early stage company, the industry is not important, although Brainchip ticks all the boxes because as one poster said on another thread this morning "I am an accountant not a techie" just like myself being a "lawyer not a techie" which means you can play on the natural fear that a lack of a full understanding of revolutionary technology creates.
We all know about the people who were taken in by Peter Brock's technology that was a complete scam and many, more including the young Silicon Valley high flying female just sent to prison.
You can then also go to the traditional metrics of lack of PE's, sales pipelines, NDA's and throw up other scam companies that have burnt retail in the past and then bring these poor souls under your wing, for a fee of course, and feed them a list of conservative unexciting companies with lots of well drafted no liability disclosures as the best thing for them to invest in while paying an annual subscription.
While all the time offering once in a lifetime opportunities to upgrade to the secret portfolio that only the high rollers know about and then when you sign up for this and pay an even bigger annual fee you will discover as you always thought there was another group above this yet again called the 'ultra high net worth" individuals who sail above everyone else being given access to opportunities that you could have only ever dreamed about.
To join this group however you have to have over half a million dollars to invest except occasionally they will have a twenty four hour special. A one off offer to only the first 50 or 100 who sign up and pay an even bigger fee where you only need $250,000 to join but sometimes they will extend this once in a lifetime offer for another 24 hours because demand was so overwhelming. Rinse and repeat. Rinse and repeat. Rinse and repeat.
The only spam involved where Brainchip is concerned is to be found in the companies that are attracted to the marketing opportunity it presents.
Over on that other place why do you think some of the trolls claimed to be there simply to rescue poor retail investors. These trolls were the ones most likely in my opinion to be part of this network of spam investment services.
Build up the psychology of being mislead and needing to be rescued. Confirm in the mind of the retail investor that they do not really understand the technology as they need to rely on other investors to dissect the spam competitors technology to show it does not work the same way and is not as good or in fact does not even compete in the same market space as Brainchip.
Having raised this doubt these retail investors become vulnerable to the idea that perhaps I should be more careful. Perhaps I should take advice from professionals??? Perhaps I have made a mistake. What will my family think if I lost all my money. I have never been right about anything else in my life. I never manage to buy a winning scratchie or lotto ticket. The car I bought last year was a lemon. The plumber ripped me off. I am a failure so how can I have got this right.
It is one horrible big game being played all the time against retail investors. It is just that simple.
The truth is nothing comes easy in life it takes hard word and discipline. Why would Warren Buffett and many others not just join one of these services and follow their recommendations if it was as simple as they are making out.
Some here say I never sleep. Of course I sleep but I learnt in my 20's that investing in the stock market was not something to do part time it needed to be your job. So I waited until I retired from my job as a solicitor to take on the stock market. The de-risking of my investment comes from keeping constant tabs on what is taking place in this space assisted by the incredible resource known to us as the 1,000 Eyes.
If I could just let one of these groups do it all for me in the way they claim I could do other things that I also enjoy but life is not like that if you want to succeed you have to work at it.
On that note the following link is interesting in the context of the second wave that Rob Telson mentioned:
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