Volume Spike Investor

Secondary offerings often create volume spikes in the shares, but we are seeing moves in several key stocks with secondary offerings.  The moves are in Sequenom, Inc. (NASDAQ: SQNM), DryShips Inc. (NASDAQ: DRYS), Teekay Offshore Partners LP (NYSE: TOO), and Qlik Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ: QLIK). Sequenom, Inc. (NASDAQ: SQNM) said the underwriters of its offering [...]

We have many stocks on the move this morning.  Some are secondary offerings and many are on news and analyst calls.  Below is a snapshot on each with the news, the move, relative price and average daily volume and other pertinent color where applicable. American Superconductor Corporation (NASDAQ: AMSC) is launching after the company was [...]

ICAgen Inc. (NASDAQ: ICGN) is soaring.  Shares closed at $0.54 on Monday and at 8:45 AM EST we have shares up 70% at $0.92 on about 85,000 shares.  Be advised that this micro-cap biotech was at $1.00 earlier this morning and that the 52-week trading range was $0.31 to $1.59.  The company reported positive results [...]

These are some of the top day trader alert and active trader alert stocks seen early this Tuesday morning in the pre-market hours: NII Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: NIHD) is trading up over 10% after it sold a 30% stake in Nextel Mexico to Grupo Televisa.  At 8:30 AM EST we have seen 86,000 shares trade [...]

These are some of the top trading stocks seen on price and volume moves for day traders and active traders: Amgen Inc. (NASDAQ: AMGN) is trading up this morning by 2.25% at $58.75 on almost 200,000 shares on its report that its Phase III head-to-head trial evaluating Denosumab met its primary and secondary endpoints versus [...]

Sequenom Inc. (NASDAQ: SQNM) is getting hit this morning on allegations from an outside group called Xenomics, Inc.  Xenomics said “an ongoing internal investigation by Xenomics’ personnel of the events surrounding its licensing deal with Sequenom in late October, 2008 leads it to conclude that Sequenom purposely misled the Company – fraudulently inducing Xenomics into [...]

Sequenom Inc. (NASDAQ: SQNM) is trading higher on an analyst call this morning. The stock was raised to “Hold” at Auriga and the target was raised to $4.00 from (prior was a Sell rating and $3.00 target).  The call noted: Based on the analysis of Sequenom’s molecular diagnostics segment (excluding the Trisomy 21-related tests that [...]

Sequenom, Inc. (NASDAQ: SQNM) is getting clipped this morning before the open.  At 9:25 AM EST we have shares down 7.9% from the $4.42 close down at $4.07 this morning. All we have seen is a call on the wires from a Skymark Research and that is just an advertisement of a call that is [...]

Sequenom Inc. (NASDAQ: SQNM) is surging higher again today.  At 10:35 AM EST we have not seen an exponential volume alert as the volume is now just over 7 million shares versus 9.4 million on average.  But the stock is up another 9.8% at $3.67.  This one has risen since meeting with the SEC and [...]

Sequenom, Inc. (NASDAQ: SQNM) is continuing to hold up despite it being a ship with no real captains and no real crew.  There were earlier-week reports that it had met with the government over the debacle for its tests on reports that it met with the U.S. Attorney, the SEC and FBI to discuss the [...]