Volume Spike Investor

Amylin Pharmaceuticals Inc. (NASDAQ: AMLN) has already come close to 2-times normal trading volume after a brokerage firm downgrade.  This also follows a large downward move from last week.   You can read the full details at BioHealthInvestor.com to see the fundamental reasoning. We have also seen some options trading in the near month(s) contracts, although [...]

Washington Mutual Inc. (NYSE: WM) has seen some unusual stock options activity in the last hour or so.  With the weakness in Lehman Brothers after its losses and $6 Billion financing and with everyone on Wall Street asking “who’s next?”, this one might not be that large of a surprise.  Here is the unusual trading [...]

Hawaiian Holdings Inc. (NYSE: HA) has seen some unusual stock options activity on a low-volume stock activity day. By now even Pygmies have read about high fuel costs running the airline stocks right into the ground. So why is someone making a de-leveraged in-the-money call options bet in the stock? We have seen two unusual [...]

TASER International, Inc. (NASDAQ: TASR) is seeing a volume surge in pre-market trading that is taking shares lower this morning.  The TASER device maker announced over the weekend that a jury verdict in United States District Court for the Northern District of California in the case of Betty Lou Heston, et al. v. City of [...]