Volume Spike Investor

These are this Monday’s top day trader and active trader alert stocks seen in the pre-market hours.  It is surprising on the lack of stocks with double-digit gainers or losers.  A brief explanation and volume comparisons are provided where applicable. Smith (SII) is up again and up far more than what options were indicating on [...]

The Home Depot, inc. (NYSE: HD) managed to do better than rival Lowe’s Companies (NYSE: LOW).  The earnings were down 7% on lower sales but the home improvement retailer’s beat expectations  and which looked much “less-bad” than Lowe’s.  At 8:25 AM EST we have shares up 4% at $27.15 on over 170,000 shares traded.  This [...]

Lowe’s Companies (NYSE: LOW) is getting clipped after the home improvement and hardware giant posted $0.51 EPS vs. $0.54 estimates.  Revenues were light as well, and same store sales were a disappointment. At 8:35 AM EST we have shares actively traded with almost 150,000 shares (will pick up in next hour) and almost 14 million [...]

We are seeing a lot of buying interest in Lowe’s Comanies inc. (NYSE: LOW) that is strong enough to spill over into shares of larger rival Home Depot (NYSE: HD).  The buying interest is after lowe’s managed to beat estimates and keep tepid guidance in line with estimates.  The hopes that Tropical Storm Fay turning [...]

The Home Depot Inc. (NYSE: HD) is seeing a major move today, although not so much on news.  This appears to be a technical indictor more than anything since the stock has broken above its key 200-day moving average.  Just late last week the stock broke above a 50-day moving average as well now that [...]