When a growth stock is shooting up like a rocket, it is tough for the amateur to know when it is the best time to hit the ejector seat and lock in profits.

As we work our way into March and prepare for the spring thaw, I'd strongly suggest avoiding the following five popular stocks like the plague. It probably comes as little surprise that topping my list of popular stocks to avoid is retail investor favorite GameStop (NYSE: GME). Despite a late month surge, GameStop ended February lower by 69%, and it's still grossly detached from its underlying fundamentals.

The company's stock is becoming more and more tied to Bitcoin, but could its strategy be generating buzz for its business?

(Bloomberg) -- MicroStrategy Inc.’s Michael Saylor purchased more Bitcoin to raise the enterprise-software company’s holdings to more than $4 billion.The Tysons Corner, Virginia-based company disclosed that it bought 328 Bitcoins for $15 million in cash, increasing its pile to about 90,859, acquired at an average of $24,063 each.Saylor has been one of a handful of chief executives to put Bitcoin on their balance sheets, saying the relaxation of the Federal Reserve’s inflation policy helped to so...

Shares of MicroStrategy Inc. surged 6.6% in premarket trading Monday after the enterprise software and bitcoin holder disclosed that on Monday, it paid $15 million in cash to buy about 328 bitcoins. The company said it paid an average price of about $45,710 per bitcoin, including fees and expenses. Bitcoin was recently up 7.1% at $48,360 in early trading Monday. As of March 1, MicroStrategy said it has paid out $2.19 billion to buy about 90,859 bitcoins, at an average purchase price of about $24...