Strong day for Advanced Micro Devices stock price on Wednesday rising 12.63% to $84.64

The Advanced Micro Devices stock price gained 12.63% on the last trading day (Wednesday, 1st Feb 2023), rising from $75.15 to $84.64. It has now gained 3 days in a row. It will be exciting to see whether it manages to continue gaining or take a minor break for the next few days. During the last trading day the stock fluctuated 9.76% from a day low at $77.88 to a day high of $85.48. The price has risen in 7 of the last 10 days and is up by 20.01% over the past 2 weeks. Volume has increased on the last day along with the price, which is a positive technical sign, and, in total, 86 million more shares were traded than the day before. In total, 151 million shares were bought and sold for approximately $12.82 billion.

Barclays is very positive about AMD and gave it a "$70.00 - $85.00" rating on Jan 23, 2023. The price target was changed from 70 to 85.Over the last 90 days, this security got 5 buy, 1 sell, and 0 hold ratings.

The stock has broken the very wide and weak rising the short-term trend up and an even stronger rate of rising is indicated. For any reaction back there will now be support on the roof on the current trend broken at $79.98, a level that may pose a second chance to hit a runner. According to fan-theory $96.63 will be the next possible trend-top level and thereby pose a resistance level that may not be broken at the first attempt.

The Advanced Micro Devices stock holds buy signals from both short and long-term moving averages giving a positive forecast for the stock. Also, there is a general buy signal from the relation between the two signals where the short-term average is above the long-term average. On corrections down, there will be some support from the lines at $76.06 and $68.98. A breakdown below any of these levels will issue sell signals. A buy signal was issued from a pivot bottom point on Thursday, January 05, 2023, and so far it has risen 35.79%. Further rise is indicated until a new top pivot has been found. Furthermore, there is a buy signal from the 3 month Moving Average Convergence Divergence (MACD). Volume is rising along with the price. This is considered to be a good technical signal.

On the downside, the stock finds support just below today's level from accumulated volume at $76.56 and $72.54.There is a natural risk involved when a stock is testing a support level, since if this is broken, the stock then may fall to the next support level. In this case, Advanced Micro Devices finds support just below today's level at $76.56. If this is broken, then the next support from accumulated volume will be at $72.54 and $68.35.

This stock has average movements during the day and with good trading volume, the risk is considered to be medium. During the last day, the stock moved $7.60 between high and low, or 9.76%. For the last week, the stock has had daily average volatility of 5.09%.

Advanced Micro Devices holds several positive signals, but we still don't find these to be enough for a buy candidate. At the current level, it should be considered as a hold candidate (hold or accumulate) in this position whilst awaiting further development.Due to some small weaknesses in the technical picture we have downgraded our analysis conclusion for this stock since the last evaluation from a Buy to a Hold/Accumulate candidate.