Volume Spike Investor

These are this Monday’s top day trader and active trader alerts seen in pre-market trading.  We have included the news and some brief color where applicable on each.  We have also given updates as of 9:15 to 9:18 AM EST: American International Group, Inc. (NYSE: AIG) is trading up 2% after its $15.5 billion Alico [...]

Origin Agritech Limited (NASDAQ: SEED) is taking a trading clip after reporting earnings.  The company posted a 14.7% gain to revenues for FY2009 of $86.8 million from US $75.6 million; Operating cash flow in FY2009 was US $30.59 million from US $8.42 million in FY2008.  At 8:24 AM EST we have seen 273,000 shares trade [...]

Origin Agritech Limited (NASDAQ: SEED) is at it again.  The stock hit new highs again yesterday on the recent genetically modified corn approval.  This morning at 8:19 AM EST we have shares up almost 4% at $14.03 on 295,000 shares.  The 52-week trading range was $1.70 to $13.53 and average volume is 2.7 million shares.  [...]

Origin Agritech Limited (NASDAQ: SEED) is continuing yesterday’s surge on a genetic corn approval.  At 8:43 AM EST we have already seen 1.45 million shares trade hands and the stock is up 7% at $11.19.  Shares had been up as high as $11.40 in earlier indications but that is pre-market and won’t count unless the [...]

Origin Agritech Limited (NASDAQ: SEED) is so strong this morning on its modified corn approval that it is pulling up two virtually unknown Chinese stocks along with it: Yongye International, Inc. (NASDAQ: YONG) is in the fulvic acid based liquid and powder nutrient compounds for plant and animal feed used in the agriculture industry in [...]

Origin Agritech Limited (NASDAQ: SEED) is not exactly a household name in America, but the company is deep in hybrid crop seeds in China.  This weekend came the announcement: “Origin Agritech Announces Final Approval of World’s First Genetically Modified Phytase Corn”… Need say no more. Shares are up 30% at $6.78 at 8:22 AM EST [...]

Origin Agritech Limited (NASDAQ: SEED) announced that its Origin Biotechnology unit reached a worldwide agreement with the Institute of Microbiology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Sichuan Biotech Engineering, Limited.  Those two will jointly own the rights to an internally developed gene which is highly tolerant to glyphosate herbicide. This glyphosate-tolerance gene is entirely [...]