Volume Spike Investor

MGM Mirage (MGM) has spiked up in after-hours trading.  At 5:12 PM EST we have shares having closed at $5.84 and the after-hours trading is up about 8.4% at $6.33.  There has also been 1,121,322 million shares traded since the close of trading.  That is highly unusual trading in the after-hours session.  On review, its [...]

Smith & Wesson Holding Corporation (NASDAQ: SWHC) is surging in after-hours.  The company discussed earnings, but it is making a diversification buyout to move into a new revenue segment.  As of 5:10 PM EST we have seen shares rise after a 2% gain to $4.93 in regular trading to an even higher price up 13% [...]

Level 3 Communications Inc. (NASDAQ: LVLT) is soaring in after-hours trading.  The company disclosed a contract with an initial 20 year term and a minimum revenue target of $140 million over the first four years of the deal.  Level 3 stock is up 10% at $1.43 as of 4:53 PM EST, and that is after [...]

Biovail Corporation (NYSE: BVF) fell by almost 7% after the drug company announced a plan to sell $200 million in convertible notes.
Jetblue Airways Corporation (NASDAQ: JBLU) has announced that it intends to offer some 20 million shares of common stock.  It also plans to offer an aggregate of $150 million in convertible debentures in two [...]

Marvell Technology Group, Ltd. (NASDAQ: MRVL) just got slapped after earnings came  to a loss for the quarter.  Shares closed at $11.69 and are trading at $11.09, down 5.13% on some 664,778 shares after the closing bell as of 4:33 PM EST.
Marvell is close enough of a competitor to Broadcom (NASDAQ: BRCM) that even Broadcom [...]

Tekelec (NASDAQ: TKLC) just popped after Jim Cramer named this stock a speculative technology stock winner on CNBC’s MAD MONEY.  He said this was his first of five picks in speculative technology picks that Cramer thinhks can continue running higher with the stock market.  We saw some 131,500+ shares trade in the aftter-hours session now [...]

These are the stocks we are seeing trading up or down in the after-hours session this Tuesday evening:
Juniper Networks, Inc. (JNPR) preliminary guidance of $760 to $765 million in revenues, down from prior range of $800 to $830 million; but earnings now seen as $0.16 to $0.17 rather than $0.15 to $0.17 EPS.  Shares were [...]

Direxion has leveraged ETF’s which have become the go-to trading instruments for traders and investors.  The Direxion Financial Bull 3X Shares (NYSE: FAS) is the triple-bullish leverage ETF for financial stocks.  This has become such an actively traded ETF with such a low share price that it now commands some of the largest percentages of [...]

Sirius XM Radio Inc. (NASDAQ: SIRI) is hardly trading on exchange lists right now, but you can expect that won’t be the case on Wednesday.  Unless it is halted.  Reports have the company filing for bankruptcy protection or “near to” filing. FULL REPORT at 24/7 Wall St.
Due to its low price and lack of interest [...]

Small-cap troubled biotech stocks can still see massive moves when it looks like hope is again there.  La Jolla Pharmaceuticals Co. (NASDAQ: LJPC) is proof in the after-hours trading.  After signing a pact with BioMarin (NASDAQ: BMRN), shares are up over 100% after the close.  This is a very thin volume stock, so we do [...]