Volume Spike Investor

NVIDIA Corp. (NASDAQ: NVDA) just re-opened for trading after its stock had been halted.  An earnings warning was the reason, but some of the reasons for such a large warning were not really as widespread in the sector as the company said.  Shares were already weak with a near-4% drop to $18.03, just above its [...]

Chico’s FAS Inc. (NYSE: CHS) rarely shows up on the more active stock trades out there. Frankly, this has NEVER made an options screen for the most actives. NEVER must be more finite than indefinite. Today we have seen a huge amount of options activity in Chico’s and it is actually one of the top [...]

Maxygen Inc. (NASDAQ: MAXY) is a small emerging pharma stock company that almost never generates any “active volume surge” characteristics.  This morning the company sold its hemophelia unit for some $90 million and it is now trading below its net cash basis.  Be sure to read out the longer story linked before if you trade [...]

Chesapeake Energy Corp. (NYSE: CHK) is seeing a surge in its stock of 8% today and we have already seen two-thirds of an average day’s trading volume in about 40 minutes of trading.  But one thing is even more interesting here, and that is the CALL OPTION buying we are witnessing right out of the [...]

Fifth Third Bancorp (NASDAQ: FITB) has gotten a lot of pre-market interest.  This usually appears in the “after-hours most actives” at NASDAQ, but those are generally trade settlements.  This morning is different as we have an analyst upgrade carrying the stock, and if any sector needs upgrades to boost interest it is harder to find [...]

Ok, you have to to be getting just as miserably sick and tired of Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) and Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) as we are.  Yahoo! shares are on the run in pre-market trading on word that Microsoft (reported by WSJ) has spoken with News Corp. (NYSE: NWS) and Time Warner Inc. (NYSE: TWX) and others [...]

UnitedHealth Group (NYSE:UNH) lowered guidance and is set to challenge both its daily volume early on and its 52-week lows. Shares closed at $25.63 yesterday and are indicated down around $25.03 on about 24,000 shares as of 7:30 AM EST. The 52-week trading range is $29.59 to $59.46, and we normally see about 12.4 million [...]