Volume Spike Investor

Arena Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: ARNA) is going to see perhaps a massive volume spike Monday based upon trial study results.  The company will be holding a conference call and webcast Monday morning, March 30, 2009, at 8:30 AM EST.  The topic is to be Arena’s top-line results from its BLOOM trial, the Behavioral modification and [...]

Osiris Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: OSIR) is seeing its stock battered this morning on exponential volume.   The company announced that it was ending enrollment at 210 patients in its Phase III trial evaluating its Prochymal for Crohn’s disease.  Shares are down 22% at $14.25 and we are over 950 shares as of only 9:57 AM EST. [...]

SOLAR STOCKS ON FIRE……..  As of 1:25 PM EST
First Solar, Inc. (NASDAQ: FSLR)  $155.38 (+$21.40)
Day’s Range: $135.65 to $158.49; 52wk Range: $85.28 to $317.00
Volume:    5,305,547; Avg Vol: 4.1 million
LDK Solar Co. (NYSE: LDK) $8.35  +$2.46; +41.77%)
Day’s Range: $6.20 to $8.47; 52wk-Range: $3.75 to $52.40
Volume:    8,962,559
Avg Vol: 2.2 million
SunPower Corporation (NASDAQ: SPWRA) $27.81 (+$3.77; +15.68%)
Day’s Range: [...]

Research in Motion Ltd. (NASDAQ: RIMM) is set to gap up big on active trading. The problem is that at 9:29:40 it is up under 4% at $44.63, and that was up 6% earlier in the morning.   Goldman Sachs is telling traders to buy the stock ahead of next week’s earnings. R-I-M has not participated [...]

DryShips Inc. (NASDAQ: DRYS) is getting hit on active volume this morning.  The shipper posted $0.43 EPS and a 6.6% year over year decline in revenues to $217.9 million.  First Call had estimates at $0.66 EPS and $209.6 million in revenues as the consensus estimates.  This is also the company’s Q4-2008 report, so it is [...]

Is there a “Blue Horseshoe Loves Allergan” conversation on Wall Street today?  It appears so.  There is takeoverchatter driving a huge surge in both price and volume.  Allergan Inc. (NYSE: AGN) has run up 10% this morning and has even been higher.  The last print was around $47.50 (up 10%) on almost 8 million shares.  [...]

DryShips Inc. (NASDAQ: DRYS) is seeing its shares roaring higher with a 27% gain to $5.30 in pre-market trading.  You already know how volatile this stock is, but the 27% gain as of 8:56 AM EST is on almost 1.7 million shares.  FULL DETAILS are at 24/7 Wall St.
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Wynn Resorts Ltd. (NASDAQ: WYNN) is not down a huge amount, but it is when you consider the stock was north of $21 just yesterday.  The company priced a 9.6 million share secondary offering (larger than 7 million noted previous from filings), so you can bet that the volume will be high today.  At 9:47 [...]

Energy Conversion Devices (NASDAQ: ENER) is getting slapped and slapped hard this morning.  Last night it gave a warning that prior guidance was being dropped, it was cutting jobs, cutting production, and slowing capacity.  So much for the love of solar, even if this one was already down more than 75%.  Shares are down 26% [...]

Cisco Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO) is trading up after Goldman Sachs decided it likes yesterday’s unified computing push.  Goldman has added the technology giant to its prized CONVICTION BUY LIST with an $18.00 target.  In the last 5 trading days this one has rallied more than 10%, and shares are up almost 2% at $15.70 [...]