Volume Spike Investor

Evergreen Solar Inc. (NASDAQ: ESLR) is seeing shares hit on high volume for an after-hours session for the stock.  The company announced it was selling $300 million in convertible notes and was entering into derivative contracts to limit the dilution.  Wit a $1.4 Billion market cap at the close and on the heels of that [...]

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (NYSE: AMD) is at it again in unusual call option activity, but the most interesting part of the trading seen earlier this afternoon is that these were in the LEAPS all the way out to the Jan-2010 $10.00 CALLS…. We have seen 20,798 of the JAN10 $10.00 CALL options contracts trade [...]

Merrill Lynch & Co. (NYSE: MER) is seeing some accelerated PUT OPTION activity today in the various JULY 2008 expiration PUT contracts.  Based upon all the rumors around almost every single financial, it may not be totally abnormal.  What is interesting is that with a $35.00 stock handle, some of these are WAYYY out of [...]

Tel Offshore Trust (NASDAQ: TELOZ) is seeing a price and volume spike for the second day in a row today.  Yesterday shares closed up $4.70 at $38.79 on 193,700 shares of stock. As of 12:10 PM today we have seen a 5% rise to $40.80 with 105,000 shares trading hands.  In fact, this looks like [...]

Eastman Kodak Co. (NYSE: EK) is seeing a surge right after the open in trading today. Shares are up some 15% at $14.24 as of 9:47 AM EST. We have also seen a volume surge to 3.4 million shares. The company announced a huge buyback after an IRS refund, although we’d note that the books [...]

Royale Energy Inc. (NASDAQ: ROYL) is spiking to new 52-week highs this morning.  This stock made a move late yesterday from just over $10.00 to $11.00+ by the end of the day to close at $11.24 on a total of 1.8 million shares.  The news late yesterday was an operational update and a board of [...]

It is still early before 8:00 AM EST so many of the trading systems are not active yet and many traders aren’t at their desks this morning (yet).  Shares of Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) are going to open lower if the trend stands this morning.   Jerry yang and friends were downgraded at Thomas Weisel in [...]

Shares of Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) are trading lower in after-hours trading this Monday afternoon.  The direct reason is its key shipping partner’s earnings warning. The company hasn’t issued any new news, but the earnings warning from United Parcel Service (NYSE: UPS) and the comments about softening demand “on lower than expected package volume”  are adding [...]

NRG Energy, Inc. (NYSE: NRG) saw unusual options activity today.  In fact, it led the CBOE as the most active Call option series.  We saw some 30,000 of the SEP08 $45 CALLS trade hands.  On a fully leveraged basis that represents some 3 million shares.  The stock closed down 0.2% at $42.97 on 4.162 million [...]

Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) has been one of the under pressure banking stocks on its own accord of late.  But today we have seen many options trades go off in the Put options.  This may be nothing more than a roll-out as last Friday was expiration date, and it could just be traders making [...]