With many IBD 50 stocks well extended from their breakouts, investors are wondering when buyers will blink. Is Meta stock, for example, about to run out of gas?X A mere glance at the IBD 50 charts shows a handful of stocks are tempting sellers. While it's impossible to pinpoint a stock's peak, historical precedent can be helpful in deciding when to take profits.One of the best and easiest ways to flag overheated stocks is with the 200-day moving average.Specifically, you want to measure the distance from th ...

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) sports a 99 Composite Rating on IBD Stock Checkup. It's helped IBD's fabless semiconductor industry group rank jump into the top 10 industries among 197 tracked. Thus, we'll investigate a long call spread trade in AMD stock.X AMD stock is holding up well despite a drop of more than 2% for the week. The action follows a spirited 28% run over the prior four weeks.Active traders and investors are pushing prices in the broad indexes to all-time highs. This is taking place after a ne ...

The buzz around artificial intelligence and Nvidia (NVDA) continues as NVDA bolts out to yet another record high. Investors that missed that move still have several stocks to watch in this bull market, including one — JFrog (FROG) — that could turn into a prince for your portfolio.X Alongside Nvidia stock, ELF Beauty (ELF), Synopsys (SNPS), Adobe (ADBE), Arista Networks (ANET), Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) and a host of others, JFrog has leapt onto the IBD Breakout Stocks Index.After posting a 650% spike in ...

While swing trading is focused on shorter-term gains, it's important to recognize when those gains may be stretched a little further. Especially with a good entry. Take MELI stock. By giving a trending stock room, we captured a larger gain.X Pullbacks Create OpportunitiesIt's no secret that pullbacks create opportunities. Of course it can be uncomfortable to think about buying when you are losing money. But recognizing a bounce can set you up for a nice run. With MercadoLibre (MELI) the nearly 50% move off ...

Meta Platforms (META) has been unstoppable lately as its retaken its all-time highs from 2021. With earnings due on Feb. 1 after the closing bell, the options market offers a way to participate in a Meta stock move with less capital at risk.Today we'll look at how to do that using a bullish diagonal spread with an attractive reward-to-risk ratio.X  Setting Up A Bullish Option On Meta StockA bullish diagonal spread is a trade that involves buying a call option and selling a shorter-term call option against i ...

Tesla (TSLA) began rolling out FSD Beta Version 12 on Sunday night to some paying customers after weeks of internal testing.X It's unclear how many customers are getting FSD Beta V12 right away.Tesla CEO Elon Musk has been promising big improvements with Full Self Driving V12 for months. However, Musk often describes upcoming releases to his driver-assistance software as "mind blowing."Despite its name, Full Self Driving is not full self-driving, but a Level driver-assistance system.Tesla reports fourth-qua ...

Microsoft (MSFT) said Friday a Russian state-sponsored group launched an attack on the tech giant's network.X The attack was detected January 12 by Microsoft's security team which "immediately activated our response process to investigate, disrupt malicious activity, mitigate the attack, and deny the threat actor further access," the company said in a blog post.Microsoft identified the culprit as Midnight Blizzard, a "Russian state-sponsored actor also known as Nobelium.""Beginning in late November 2023, th ...

Sheryl Sandberg, Meta's former chief operating officer who served as CEO Mark Zuckerberg's top deputy, helping him transforming Facebook from a hot startup to a tech powerhouse, is leaving the company's board.X Sandberg, who joined Facebook in 2008, announced in a Facebook post that she will not stand for reelection in May, ending what she described as "an opportunity of a lifetime.""I will always be grateful to Mark for believing in me and for his partnership and friendship," Sandberg said. "He is that tru ...

S&P 500 stocks Broadcom (AVGO), MercadoLibre (MELI),  Elastic (ESTC), Datadog (DDOG) and Shift4 Payments (FOUR) are in focus this week.X The market rally is looking resilient, with the S&P 500, Nasdaq and many leading stocks rebounding from key levels this past week. The market is still presenting investors with chances to add exposure and this should continue. However, investors should make sure they are not buying extended stocks.These five stocks, including an S&P 500 giant, are all trading right around ...

Netflix (NFLX), a superb winner during a number of bull markets after the dot-com bear market bottomed, continues to get ample attention. Today's column features a long call calendar spread trade in Netflix stock.X With earnings season beginning, and data on December U.S. consumer prices coming in a bit hot, traders are dipping us into regions that traders are looking to engage. Put another way, prices may appear more favorable in the overall bullish context of the market. Several stocks are hitting new 52 ...