Trade of the Day: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (¶¶Òõ×îаæ) Aiming for $8

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NASDAQ:¶¶Òõ×îаæ) — ¶¶Òõ×îаæ is the second-largest producer of microprocessors and a prime supplier of chips to Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT). On Friday, Microsoft reported strong fiscal-first-quarter earnings and revenues due to a rising demand for cloud-based software and services.

There are several stocks that benefit from their relationship with MSFT, and ¶¶Òõ×îаæ is one obvious beneficiary. In addition to supplying MSFT, on Oct. 14 ¶¶Òõ×îаæ announced a partnership with online retail giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd (NYSE:

BABA), an agreement that will supply the retail giant with ¶¶Òõ×îаæ’s Radeon Pro GPUs for cloud services.

The deal with BABA brought ¶¶Òõ×îаæ to the attention of Zacks, who now ranks it as a No. 2 buy and says that the company is expected to increase earnings growth by 56.1% this year.

After four years of negative results, with its stock trading between $2 and $4, Advanced Micro Devices broke to a bull market in late April with an impressive Break-Away-Gap. Since that breakout, ¶¶Òõ×îаæ established a solid bull channel trading around its 50-day moving average and even breaking above the channel in late-July.

Profit-taking occurred in September, but the stock found support at its bullish support line and rallied back, now holding above the 50-day moving average on solid volume. The rally in late September closed one gap that opened during September’s profit-taking, but another at $7.07 to $7.25 remains open.

Gaps in bull-market corrections act as magnets, almost always closed by buyers.

For the last seven sessions, ¶¶Òõ×îаæ has fought a successful battle to stay above the crucial 50-day moving average, and yesterday closed at $7.01, the high of the day, and several cents over its 50-day moving average. Positive technical activity places ¶¶Òõ×îаæ on my buy list at $7 with a trading target of $8 for a proposed gain of over 14%.

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