5 Nasdaq Stocks Investors Are Buying Like Crazy

By Larry Gellar Today we’ll be taking a look at the Nasdaq’s 5 most traded stocks from a recent trading session. Big names like Microsoft (MSFT), Intel (INTC), and Cisco (CSCO) made the list, and it’ll be interesting to see how these companies perform in 2012. Some investors are worried that smaller companies will provide significantly more growth. Meanwhile, unusual circumstances catapulted Compuware (CPWR) and Frontier (FTR) into heavy trading. Let’s see what’s been happening with these 5 stocks: Compuware Corporation has been volatile lately, and much of the recent chaos can be attributed to funds that needed to sell Compuware due to its removal from the S&P 500 (SPY). With a market capitalization of just over $1.8 billion, Standard & Poor’s felt that Compuware should be moved to the S&P 400 GICS Application Software Sub-Industry index. Meanwhile, Compuware is having some tremendous success with its Covisint subsidiary. Here’s what David McGuffie, Covisint president and COO, had to say about a recent project: Technology works best when it serves the greatest good; in this case, helping Intermountain document its delivery of the best patient care possible while also helping it receive a nice reimbursement. Covisint took Intermountain’s existing data, analyzed…