Volume Spike Investor

These are this Wednesday’s top active stocks with moves on news or continued trends of yesterday.  We have offered price and volume data as well as added color where appropriate: American Eagle Outfitters, Inc. (NYSE: AEO) is trading higher after it announced last night that it was closing down its MARTIN+OSA concept store brand.  Shares [...]

Cisco Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO) is trading up another 0.8% at $26.34 and challenging yesterday’s $26.36 52-week high.  At 8:26 AM EST we have seen over 900,000 shares trade hands ahead of the 11 AM announcement that will “forever change the internet.” UPDATE 9:11 up 0.7% at $26.32 on 2.4 million shares. China Armco Metals, [...]

Ballard Power Systems (NASDAQ: BLDP) just saw a large price and volume spike on news. The company has announced that it has $6.2 million in project funding from the U.S. Department of Energy under contract over a four year period. Its US subsidiary, Ballard Material Products, was awarded $4.1 million as prime for a contract [...]

China Armco Metals, Inc. (NASDAQ: CNAM) is still seeing elevated stock trading.  Due to a recent bump up, its average share volume is 426,000 shares.  But that was lower before the volume and prices shot through the roof last week. And today we are still very active with a 4.6% gain to $10.04. Here are [...]

These are 5 of the top pre-market movers this Tuesday morning.  We have added color and additional data on each applicable to each stock in the news: Brocade Communications Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: BRCD) is getting crushed after earnings last night as revenues were light on targets and its guidance was deemed sloppy to soft.  We [...]

Commercial Metals Company (NYSE: CMC) is one we have been following today for an explosion in trading volume on what is actually a very quiet trading day.  The stock is now up 11.9% at $16.87 on 5.3 million shares.  The 52-week trading range is $8.83 to $21.29 and the average volume is only about 1.8 [...]

Just yesterday in the FOMC meeting minutes from January, it was becoming painfully clear that the FOMC was getting closer and closer to hiking rates.  Most notable was that the discussions had been revolving around whether changing the “extended period” and more importantly that the FOMC was considering a hike in the discount rate. It [...]

SIRIUS XM Radio Inc. (NASDAQ: SIRI) has done what many would have bet against… It has broken the buck, and to the upside.  We have seen over 100 million shares of the satellite radio monopoly trade hands today and shares are up over 9% at $1.05.  $0.98 was a new high yesterday, following $0.95 earlier. [...]

This morning is a little light on day trader and active alert stocks.  That is partly because of Friday, but there just are not as many big movers this morning compared to what we see on many trading days: Blue Nile, Inc. (NASDAQ: NILE) closed at $52.56 yesterday and shares are down 13.4% at $45.50 [...]

VMWare Inc. (NYSE: VMW) soared in after-hours trading, and in our earnings summary we already noted that that this sets a very high bar for Citrix Systems Inc. (NASDAQ: CTXS) as a result of the strong virtualization market.  We did not see this options trading in our reviews throughout the trading day, but it turns [...]