Volume Spike Investor

An article in Barron’s this weekend against Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM) and the risks associated with chasing its 100-times forward earnings multiple is adding some weight on the shares of several key high-flying tech shares ahead of this week’s earnings. Virtualization leader VMware Inc. (NYSE: VMW) is reporting earnings after the close on Monday and Thomson [...]

Salesforce.com Inc. (NASDAQ: CRM) is getting pounded.  Maybe this is tied to Equinix and Autonomy, or maybe it is just based on exiting high-multiple and high-beta stocks.  Either way, money is coming out in droves. At 12:42 PM EST we have shares down a sharp 9.4% at $103.20 on more than 5.8 million shares.  Average [...]

These are this Thursday’s top day trader and active trader alerts seen in the pre-market session: Palm Inc. (NASDAQ: PALM) was halted earlier this morning after it lowered guidance.  The company forecast that Q3 revenues will be $285 to $310 million and non-GAAP revenue $300 to $320 million.  The company sees 2010 revenue ‘well below’ [...]

Salesforce.com Inc. (NYSE: CRM) was up over 8% at $50.02 at the closing of the after-hours session last night, but that was on a post-close volume of 885,000 shares. As of 8:40 AM EST this morning we have seen right at 60,000 shares having traded hands, but shares are even higher at $50.75. Its average [...]

Salesforce.com Inc. (NYSE: CRM) closed up 2.5% a6 $46.18 in regular trading today.  But at 4:47 PM EST shares are up farther in after hours around $50.70, an additional gain of 9.79%, on more than 526,000 shares.  This traded over 3 million shares in regular trading today and its average volume is 1.95 million shares.  [...]