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Is $AMD(AMD)$ Headed For Gap Fill Or Will This Bearish Pattern Dominate? Buy $AMD(AMD)$now and wait for the rise! 

$AMD(AMD)$On Wednesday, Morgan Stanley analyst Joseph Moore reinstated an Overweight rating on AMD with a price target of $103. The price target suggests about a 19% increase from the stock's current share price.

Moore's bullish view did little to boost AMD's stock price on that day but the stock had already started to reverse into an uptrend two days prior and on Friday, AMD confirmed the trend.

An uptrend occurs when a stock consistently makes a series of higher highs and higher lows on the chart.

The higher highs indicate the bulls are in control while the intermittent higher lows indicate consolidation periods.

Traders can use moving averages to help identify an uptrend, with rising lower time frame moving averages (such as the eight-day or 21-day exponential moving averages) indicating the stock is in a steep shorter-term uptrend.

Rising longer-term moving averages (such as the 200-day simple moving average) indicate a long-term uptrend.

A stock often signals when the higher high is in by printing a reversal candlestick such as a doji, bearish engulfing or hanging man candlestick. Likewise, the higher low could be signaled when a doji, morning star or hammer candlestick is printed. Moreover, the higher highs and higher lows often take place at resistance and support levels.

The Advanced Micro Devices Chart: AMD's most recent confirmed higher low was printed on Thursday at $80.23 and the most recent high was formed at the $86.38 mark on Wednesday. On Friday, AMD surpassed the most recent high to confirm a new uptrend is intact.

If AMD closes the trading day near its high-of-day price, the stock will print a bullish Marubozu candlestick, which could indicate higher prices will come again on Monday. If the stock closes the day with an upper wick, AMD will print a shooting star candlestick, which could indicate lower prices are on the horizon, perhaps to print another higher low.

There is a chance AMD is settling into a bearish head-and-shoulders pattern on the daily chart, with the left formed between May 12 and May 24, the head created between May 25 and June 16, and the right shoulder forming over the days that have followed. If this pattern becomes dominant, the measured move is about 30%, which suggests the stock could fall toward $57.

If the uptrend continues, there is a gap above between $116.31 and $118.59 that could be more likely to be filled. Gaps on charts fill about 90% of the time, although it should be noted it could be an extended period of time before that happens.

AMD has resistance above at $87.45 and $92.75 and support below at $84.24 and $79.70. Buy it at low and wait for the rise!