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Hoje fecharei este trade, visto ter tido um fecho abaixo do valor de stop definido por mim...

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A cotação não está a corresponder mas não faltam notícias positivas sobre a AMCC:

AMCC Unveils the PowerPC 460EX, the Most Powerful Member of its Power Architecture Based Line of Embedded Processors
Tuesday April 3, 8:00 am ET
PowerPC 460EX Meets End User Demand for New Levels of Connectivity, Security and Network Management for Printing, Imaging, Home Gateway and Networking Products

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Applied Micro Circuits Corporation (NASDAQ:AMCC - News) announced the newest member of its embedded processor family of products, the PowerPC® 460EX, at this week's Embedded Systems Conference in San Jose. Based on the Power Architecture(TM) standard, the 460EX is designed for a wide range of high performance applications including multifunction printing, networking, home gateway and general embedded processor requirements.

"The 460EX meets the demands of product developers who are seeking an embedded processor that offers higher performance, greater connectivity options, lower power consumption and improved levels of security," said Sam Fuller, vice president of marketing for AMCC. "With PCI Express, PCI, USB, SATA and Gigabit Ethernet all standard features on the 460EX, this new embedded processor further reinforces AMCC's reputation as a leading innovator and product supplier in the embedded processor market."

Based on a 90 nm CMOS® technology, the 460EX offers a significant increase in performance, increased memory capacity and bandwidth, standards-based connectivity, reduced power dissipation, and enhanced security processing acceleration. The 460EX is instruction set compatible with all other AMCC Power Architecture products and applications. The 460EX can be easily migrated from both AMCC processors and those of other Power Architecture vendors in order to deliver upgraded performance and functionality to product designers and engineers.

"For high-end enterprise printing and imaging, vendors continue to add features to their multi-function printers (MFPs) to meet growing end-user demand," observed Linley Gwennap, principal analyst of The Linley Group. "AMCC's 460EX will enable product developers to reduce both design and manufacturing costs for their MFPs, while offering enhancements such as increased printing speed and more color options."

Performance

The Power Architecture core of the 460EX delivers a frequency ranging from 667MHz to 1.2GHz with 2.0 Dhrystone MIPS/MHz. This processing throughput is significantly higher than is available from most competitive core offerings. Extensive memory support includes 32-Kbyte Instruction and Data Caches, an on chip 256-Kbyte L2 cache and an additional 64-Kbytes of on-chip memory mapped SRAM. The 460EX also supports up to four banks of DDR2 SDRAM memory and a maximum capacity of 16 Gbytes.

Connectivity

The 460EX features a wide range of peripheral integration and connectivity options. The processor has two independent PCI Express interfaces and a 32-bit PCI V2.3 interface; two integrated 10/100/1000 Ethernet ports with TCP/IP acceleration, quality of service (QoS) and Jumbo Frame support; a USB 2.0 On-The-Go interface in addition to a separate USB 2.O Host Interface, an on-chip SATA controller and a 32-bit external peripheral bus interface. This is the first Power Architecture SoC design to include an integrated SATA controller to meet the growing demand of customers looking for integrated SATA disk drive connectivity.

Security

The 460EX features a best-in-class Turbo Security Engine that supports standard security protocols such as IPSec®, SSL(TM) and DTLS. The Turbo Security Engine attaches directly to the processor bus for the fastest possible system throughput. The engine also features Public Key Acceleration and True Random Number Generation, as well as full header/trailer protocol processing. It is compliant with FIPS-140-2 and ANSI X9.17 Annex C. The Turbo Security Engine is also designed to aid customers in complying with the proposed IEEE P2600(TM) Standard for Information Technology: Hardcopy Device and System Security.

Power

OEMs face increasingly stringent energy and power requirements for their products in order to meet ENERGY STAR(TM) and similar guidelines set by the EPA and other government organizations. They are seeking reduced power demands from every component integrated into their products. The 460EX is designed to help customers meet these requirements. Typical power dissipation is an estimated 5W @ 1 GHz for the entire chip.

Support

AMCC's Power Architecture processors are supported by AMCC and more than one hundred third-party vendors who provide a full range of software, boards and development tools necessary for manufacturers to develop products quickly and efficiently. For full details of the products and services available through the AMCC Partners Program, or to browse support available for a specific processor, please visit: http://www.amcc.com/Embedded/Partners/.

Availability and Pricing

AMCC will begin product sampling in the third quarter of this year. Distributor suggested resale pricing for the 460EX starts at $50 in 10Ku volumes.

About AMCC

AMCC is a global leader in network and embedded Power Architecture(TM) processing, optical transport and storage solutions. Our products enable the development of converged IP-based networks offering high-speed secure data, high-definition video and high-quality voice for carrier, metropolitan, access and enterprise applications. AMCC provides networking equipment vendors with industry-leading communications processing, Ethernet, SONET and switch fabric solutions. AMCC is also the leading vendor of high-port count SATA RAID controllers enabling low-cost, high-performance, high-capacity storage. AMCC's corporate headquarters are located in Sunnyvale, California. Sales and engineering offices are located throughout the world. For further information regarding AMCC, please visit our web site at http://www.amcc.com.

Forward Looking Statements

This press release contains "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements may be identified by words such as expects, anticipates, plans, believes, estimates, will or words of similar meaning. Such forward-looking statements, including statements relating to the products discussed in this press release, are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties, including the risk that the products may not be successfully or timely developed, completed or manufactured or achieve market acceptance, risks relating to general economic conditions, as well as the risks and uncertainties set forth in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K, and in the Company's other SEC filings. As a result of these risks and uncertainties, actual results may differ materially from these forward-looking statements. The forward-looking statements contained in this press release are made as of the date hereof and AMCC does not assume any obligation to update any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future developments or otherwise.

AMCC is a registered trademark of APPLIED MICRO CIRCUITS CORPORATION. PowerPC is a trademark licensed by IBM Corporation. Power Architecture is a trademark licensed by Power.org. ENERGY STAR is a trademark of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. IEEE P2600 is a trademark IEEE.

AMCC Introduces Low-Cost Evaluation Kit for PowerPC 405EZ Processor
Tuesday April 3, 8:00 am ET
Comprehensive, user-friendly evaluation kit accelerates customers' time-to-market.

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Applied Micro Circuits Corp. (AMCC) (NASDAQ:AMCC - News) today announced availability of a low-cost, easy-to-use evaluation kit for its PowerPC® 405EZ processor. To accelerate customers' system development time, AMCC's 405EZ kit provides users with a comprehensive set of resources including a custom-designed evaluation board, industry-standard software development tools, sample applications, system-level benchmarks and hardware design files. The kit allows customers to perform a comprehensive evaluation of the 405EZ processor, use the base hardware/software design as a starting-point for their own product development and initiate their system software development using the kit as the target platform.

The kit includes an evaluation board named "Acadia" designed for AMCC by Embedded Planet, LLC. The Acadia board is configured with the Linux® operating system, but also provides the flexibility to load and run other PowerPC-compatible embedded operating systems. Schematics and layout files for the board are provided via AMCC's website so customers can start their designs from a proven baseline. The board, with a 7" x 7" form factor, includes an AMCC 405EZ processor operating at a clock frequency of 416MHz. Other features include 256Mbytes of CRAM, 64Mbytes of NOR Flash, 8Mbytes of NAND flash, one 10/100 Ethernet port, two USB 1.1 host ports, one USB 1.1 device port, two CAN 2.0 ports, two serial ports, ADC and DAC connectors, JTAG connector, trace connector, Linux (2.6 kernel) in flash, and U-Boot boot firmware in flash. Also included in the evaluation kit is a suite of advanced processor and board diagnostics from Kozio, Inc., known as kDiagnostics(TM). This diagnostics package, which can be licensed by customers, performs in-depth testing of the processor and evaluation board.

This new kit joins the family of previously-introduced, easy-to-use AMCC evaluation kits, which include the Taihu 405EP kit, the Yosemite 440EP kit, the Sequoia 440EPx kit, the Yellowstone 440GR kit, the Rainier 440GRx kit, the Taishan 440GX kit and the Katmai 440SPe kit. AMCC's extensive range of PowerPC evaluation kits was based on clear objectives to provide customers with easy-to-use platforms for processor evaluation and software development. Each of the kits can be set up in 15 minutes or less, facilitated by a clear, step-by-step Getting Started guide and user-friendly configuration software.

"The AMCC Acadia kit follows the strong example set by the prior AMCC evaluation kits: a proven, high-quality hardware reference design backed by complete software support from boot loader through operating system. With these kits customers can remove significant time from their already tight product development schedules and if a customer needs more customization AMCC's development partners are well up the learning curve on the product," said Matt Hoover, Embedded Planet's vice president of sales and marketing.

"Many of our customers have selected AMCC processors because of these low-cost kits that make it so easy for them to evaluate the platform's performance," said John Weber, technology specialist for embedded processors at Avnet-Memec. "Our customers need a straightforward, painless way to check out a new processor and then start their software development. We expect the 405EZ Acadia kit to enable us to secure many more AMCC design-wins."

"We are excited to introduce this 405EZ evaluation kit as part of our overall goal of improving our customers' experience as they evaluate our processors and then start their own product development," said Charlie Ashton, director of software at AMCC. "This kit retains the key concepts of our previously introduced kits, which have already been proven popular with customers. 405EZ customers will be able to move quickly through the evaluation phase, start their hardware design based on a proven baseline and start their software development before their own target hardware is ready."

To assist with the processor evaluation phase, the 405EZ Resource CD included in the kit contains industry-standard benchmarks for use in processor performance analysis, such as TTCP, DBench, HINT®, STREAM, Dhrystone and MPEG-4. These benchmarks allow customers to perform a detailed analysis of the processor's performance using standard metrics without having to acquire and configure the benchmarks themselves.

Once customers progress to the software development phase and before their own target hardware (prototype board) is available, the evaluation kit enables them to start their software development early, thereby accelerating their time-to-market. The Resource CD offers a wide range of sample applications that can be used as a starting-point for customers' software applications, as well as various utilities to aid in system configuration. The sample applications include a web server, telnet server, FTP server and example game, while the utilities provide a detailed configuration report on the board as well as utilities for setting the IP address and MAC ID.

The 405EZ evaluation kit is configured with the Linux operating system (2.6 kernel) along with U-Boot boot firmware, both provided by DENX Software Engineering. Customers can also load and run other PowerPC-compatible embedded operating systems, such as ThreadX® from Express Logic, Inc. and Micro-C OS from Micrium, Inc., both of which are provided on CDs included with the kit. Schematics and layout files for the board are provided free-of-charge via AMCC's website so that customers can start their designs from a proven baseline. The Linux code and U-Boot code (both source code and executables) are available from DENX via links on AMCC's website. Also included in the evaluation kit is kDiagnostics, a suite of advanced processor and board diagnostics from Kozio, Inc. This diagnostics package, which can be licensed by customers, performs in-depth testing of the processor and evaluation board.

To assist customers in selecting the optimum development environment for their 405EZ-based projects, software tools CDs from industry-leading suppliers such as DENX Software Engineering, Corelis, Inc. and Green Hills Software, Inc. are included in the kit.

Pricing and Availability

AMCC's 405EZ evaluation kit will be available in May and may be ordered from AMCC or any authorized distributor using part number EV-KIT-405EZ-01. The suggested distributor resale price is $750. For more information, please contact your local AMCC sales office at http://www.amcc.com/Sales/.

About AMCC

AMCC is a global leader in network and embedded PowerPC processing, optical transport and storage solutions. Our products enable the development of converged IP-based networks offering high-speed secure data, high-definition video and high-quality voice for carrier, metropolitan, access and enterprise applications. AMCC provides networking equipment vendors with industry-leading communications processing, Ethernet, SONET and switch fabric solutions. AMCC is also the leading vendor of high-port count SATA RAID controllers enabling low-cost, high-performance, high-capacity storage. AMCC's corporate headquarters are located in Sunnyvale, California. Sales and engineering offices are located throughout the world. For further information regarding AMCC, please visit our web site at http://www.amcc.com.

Forward Looking Statements

This press release contains "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements may be identified by words such as expects, anticipates, plans, believes, estimates, will or words of similar meaning. Such forward-looking statements, including statements relating to the products discussed in this press release, are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties, including the risk that the products may not be successfully or timely developed, completed or manufactured or achieve market acceptance, risks relating to general economic conditions, as well as the risks and uncertainties set forth in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K, and in the Company's other SEC filings. As a result of these risks and uncertainties, actual results may differ materially from these forward-looking statements. The forward-looking statements contained in this press release are made as of the date hereof and AMCC does not assume any obligation to update any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future developments or otherwise.

AMCC Announces Industry's First Power Architecture Processor Specifically Targeting 802.11n and WiMAX Secure Wireless Access Points
Tuesday April 3, 8:00 am ET
New PCI Express, Gigabit Ethernet and Integrated Security Features of the PowerPC 405EX Anticipate Requirements of Next Generation Access Points

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Applied Micro Circuits Corporation (NASDAQ:AMCC - News) announced its next generation embedded processor for enterprise-class wireless access points at this week's Embedded Systems Conference(SM) in San Jose. The PowerPC® 405EX is based on Power Architecture(TM) technology and is optimized for the demanding requirements of 802.11n (Wi-Fi) and WiMAX(TM)-based wireless access points and similar embedded processing or network control applications.

"The 405EX offers major advancements in performance, bandwidth, security and multi-platform support for next generation access points based on the new 802.11n and WiMAX standards," said Sam Fuller, vice president of marketing at AMCC. "The increased performance, low power, and security acceleration capabilities of the 405EX processor will ensure AMCC's leadership position in this increasingly demanding market."

Based on a 90 nm CMOS® technology, the 405EX advances the state of the art in embedded processors for access equipment. The 405EX features dual PCI Express interfaces for connectivity to Wi-Fi or WiMAX radio chipsets or to other PCI Express-based chipsets. The internal bus architecture, security acceleration and integrated Gigabit Ethernet Media Access Controllers (MACs) ensure that the full bandwidth of 802.11n will be available. The high level of integration in the 405EX SoC reduces the external components required for next generation WLAN access point designs, which reduces systems complexity and bill of material cost resulting in faster time-to-market and lower cost products.

"Vendors continue to demand increased performance, lower power consumption and reduced costs from their component suppliers," noted Linley Gwennap, principal analyst of The Linley Group. "AMCC's 405EX meets these challenges using a new 90 nm version of the Power Architecture 405 core and increased integration of system functions. Wireless access-point designers in particular will welcome the processor's connectivity, very low power and excellent security options."

High Performance at Low Power

The Power Architecture core of the 405EX delivers a frequency range up to 667 MHz and is capable of delivering over 1,000 DMIPS of processing performance. A cross bar-based, on-chip system interconnect, provides low latency and increased bandwidth connectivity to a high-performance DDR2 SDRAM controller for main memory and to the PCI Express and Gigabit Ethernet interfaces. The sub 2 Watt typical power dissipation of the 405EX enables access points to utilize the 802.3af standard for Power-over-Ethernet. The benefit is obvious when considering that most access points are placed in ceilings or high on walls where access to AC power outlets is limited.

Security Acceleration

The 405EX features a best-in-class Turbo Security Engine that supports standard IPSec, SSL and DTLS security protocols. The Turbo Security Engine attaches directly to the processor bus for the fastest possible system throughput. The engine also features Public Key Acceleration and True Random Number Generation, as well as full header/trailer protocol processing. It is compliant with FIPS-140-2 and ANSI X9.17 Annex C.

Key Peripherals

The 405EX features two single lane PCI Express ports, each capable of delivering nearly 2.0 Gbps of bandwidth, and two integrated Gigabit Ethernet Media Access Controller (MAC) interfaces. Also included is a high-speed USB 2.0 On-The-Go port. A NAND Flash Controller and a full suite of Serial I/O ports, including UART, IIC, SPI and 32-bit external peripheral bus are additional key connectivity capabilities of the 405EX.

Support

Power Architecture processors from AMCC are supported by more than a hundred third-party vendors through the Embedded Tools Program. This support program includes compilers, debuggers, RTOS, emulators, logic analyzers and a full range of tools to assist manufacturers in developing products more quickly. In addition, AMCC will provide full evaluation kits as well as an 802.11n WLAN Reference Design to accelerate customers' time-to-market.

Availability and Pricing

The 405EX will sample in the third quarter of 2007. Distributor suggested resale pricing will start at $17 in 10Ku volumes. Further detail on the 405EX including technical specifications, can be found on the AMCC Website at www.amcc.com/embedded

About AMCC

AMCC is a global leader in network and embedded Power Architecture(TM) processing, optical transport and storage solutions. Our products enable the development of converged IP-based networks offering high-speed secure data, high-definition video and high-quality voice for carrier, metropolitan, access and enterprise applications. AMCC provides networking equipment vendors with industry-leading communications processing, Ethernet, SONET and switch fabric solutions. AMCC is also the leading vendor of high-port count SATA RAID controllers enabling low-cost, high-performance, high-capacity storage. AMCC's corporate headquarters are located in Sunnyvale, California. Sales and engineering offices are located throughout the world. For further information regarding AMCC, please visit our web site at http://www.amcc.com.

Forward Looking Statements

This press release contains "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements may be identified by words such as expects, anticipates, plans, believes, estimates, will or words of similar meaning. Such forward-looking statements, including statements relating to the products discussed in this press release, are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties, including the risk that the products may not be successfully or timely developed, completed or manufactured or achieve market acceptance, risks relating to general economic conditions, as well as the risks and uncertainties set forth in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K, and in the Company's other SEC filings. As a result of these risks and uncertainties, actual results may differ materially from these forward-looking statements. The forward-looking statements contained in this press release are made as of the date hereof and AMCC does not assume any obligation to update any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future developments or otherwise.

... "Applied Micro makes all sorts of chips for the storage and telecom industries. This is a company that has never really recovered from the tech implosion.

Although it's trading near the top end of its range now, it's poised to break into profitability with a forward price-to-earnings of 25 expected next year vs. losing money last year. The company has a stellar balance sheet with $261 million in cash and no debt."...

In Stockpickr: Trade Like Blackstone Group
By James Altucher
RealMoney.com Contributor
4/3/2007 7:13 AM EDT

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EMan

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Stop-loss ajustado para um fecho abaixo dos 3.48...

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EMan

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Portanto...

Stop nos 3.43

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Gráfico com o fecho de ontem...

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Fulcrum Microsystems and Applied Micro Circuits Corporation to Demonstrate First Low-Latency 10-Gigabit SFP+ Switch at OFC/NFOEC
Tuesday March 27, 8:00 am ET
Companies Combine Space-Saving SFP+ Connectivity with Low-Latency Ethernet Switching in New Design

ANAHEIM, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Fulcrum Microsystems® and Applied Micro Circuits Corporation (NASDAQ:AMCC - News) today announced a new, jointly designed SFP+ 10-Gigabit Ethernet switch reference design that combines Fulcrum's FocalPoint® FM2224 10-Gigabit Ethernet switch chip with AMCC's QT2035S SFP+ physical layer IC. The companies will demonstrate the solution at the upcoming OFC/NFOEC Technical Conference and Exposition March 25-29 at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, California. The reference design is the first to marry the space-saving SFP+ module form-factor, which is up to 30% smaller than competing form factors, with a high-performance, low-latency switch.

The joint Fulcrum/AMCC reference design is a 24-port, pizza-box-style switch with 12 SFP+ module cages and 12 CX4 connectors. The AMCC QT2035S IC enables all reaches of 10GE in an SFP+ form factor, including SR, LR, LRM and ER. In addition, 10 GbE over twin-axial copper cable is also supported. The use of Fulcrum switching technology ensures wire-rate switching performance with the industry's lowest latency of 200 ns. The combination provides the highest density and highest performance 10GE switching solution available on the market today.

"The 10-Gigabit Ethernet market is continuing its maturation with new technologies like SFP+ coming along to help bring down the costs. When you combine that with low-latency switching, you have a system versatile enough to meet the demands of real-time traffic in a data center or as a server interconnect," said Mike Zeile, vice president of marketing for Fulcrum Microsystems. "Working with AMCC's industry-leading technology helps us further our goal of facilitating the transition to 10-Gigabit Ethernet by building an ecosystem that makes it easy for designers to develop high-performance products."

"Every design today is striving for lower cost and lower power consumption, and our SFP+ products offer all of that plus a smaller form factor. This new reference design is an example of how we are going to aggressively take this technology to the market," said Mitch Kahn, vice president of marketing, transport products, AMCC. "We are committed to providing the best physical layer solutions available, and working with Fulcrum's 10-Gigabit silicon enables both of us to put together an industry-leading, complete processing and switching solution."

The FocalPoint family of low-latency switches includes the flagship FM2224, a 24-port 10-Gigabit Ethernet switch, and the FM2112, a 24-port switch with eight 10-Gigabit Ethernet ports and 16 Gigabit Ethernet ports. Two other switches in the family include the FM2104 and FM2103, which feature two 10-Gigabit Ethernet ports and eight and four 2.5 Gigabit Ethernet ports, respectively, and are designed for GPON switching card applications. All FocalPoint switches feature an industry-leading 200 nanoseconds (ns) of total latency. The switches combine this low latency with non-blocking throughput, the highest level of integration and the greatest power efficiency to become the cost-effective and high-performance choice for storage, computing/networking backplane and interconnect applications.

The AMCC QT2035S device is the industry's first silicon solution to integrate a standard, XAUI-based PHY with complete SFP+ signal processing. The device includes an advanced electronic dispersion compensation (EDC) circuitry that supports 10GBASE-R and 10GBASE-LRM SFP+ applications as well as operation over a low bandwidth Infiniband(TM) twin-axial cable. The QT2035S is low in power dissipation and is offered in a 13x13mm leaded or fully RoHS-compliant package.

About AMCC

AMCC is a global leader in network and embedded PowerPC(TM) processing, optical transport, and storage solutions. Its products enable the development of converged IP-based networks offering high-speed secure data, high-definition video and high-quality voice for carrier, metropolitan, access and enterprise applications. AMCC provides networking equipment vendors with industry-leading communications processing, Ethernet, SONET and switch fabric solutions. AMCC is also the leading vendor of high-port-count SATA RAID controllers, enabling low-cost, high-performance, high-capacity storage. AMCC's corporate headquarters are located in Sunnyvale, California. Sales and engineering offices are located throughout the world. For further information regarding AMCC, please visit its web site at http://www.amcc.com.

Forward-Looking Statements

This press release contains "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements may be identified by words such as expects, anticipates, plans, believes, estimates, will or words of similar meaning. Such forward-looking statements, including statements relating to the products discussed in this press release, are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties, including the risk that the products may not be successfully or timely developed, completed or manufactured or achieve market acceptance; risks relating to general economic conditions; as well as the risks and uncertainties set forth in the company's Annual Report on Form 10-K and in the Company's other SEC filings. As a result of these risks and uncertainties, actual results may differ materially from these forward-looking statements. The forward-looking statements contained in this press release are made as of the date hereof and AMCC does not assume any obligation to update any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future developments or otherwise.

AMCC IS A REGISTERED TRADEMARK OF APPLIED MICRO CIRCUITS CORPORATION.

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Acabei de entrar Longo em AMCC e penso que tem caminho aberto para atingir os 4 dólares durante as próximas sessões... o volume e a cotação acima da MM50 dias parecem-me ser bons sinais para este "trade"...


Entrada Longo:
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Stop: não tenho ainda mas logo coloco

Risco: 2 (baixo)

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