Top Day Trader Alerts (AA, CENX, NTAP, DDUP, EMC, RIGL, NVAX, HGSI, CPKI, SCSC)

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These are some of the this morning’s top day trader alert stocks to watch based on pre-market and after-hours volume activity.  These have links through to more detailed trading and volume analysis covered at the Volume Spike site VSInvestor.com:

  • Alcoa Inc. (NYSE: AA) shares are ones to watch for a volume spike higher after the company beat Q2 expectations by 12 cents a share and saw signs of auto market stability. Also watch rival Century Aluminum (Nasdaq: CENX) for possible upside.
  • NetApp Inc. (Nasdaq: NTAP) shares are pointing higher as the company saved some dough, and actually made a little, by losing its bid for data storage company Data Domain Inc. (Nasdaq: DDUP) to EMC Corp. (NYSE: EMC).
  • Rigel Pharmaceuticals Inc. (Nasdaq: RIGL) shares are up very strongly on clinical trial data that raised expectations for a partnership.
  • Novavax Inc. (Nasdaq: NVAX) shares are up more than 10 percent with nearly 100,000 shares traded in the pre-market after the company announced a joint venture in India with Cadila Pharmaceuticals, called CPL Biologicals.
  • Human Genome Sciences Inc. (Nasdaq: HGSI) shares are rising on strong volume on a New England Journal of Medicine publication regarding its Raxibacumab as a treatment for anthrax.
  • California Pizza Kitchen Inc. (Nasdaq: CPKI) shares will be ones to watch for a potential volume spike higher after the company guided Q2 profit higher.
  • ScanSource Inc. (Nasdaq: SCSC) shares could be active in early Thursday trading after the company guided higher for its fiscal Q4, ended in June.

-The 24/7 Wall St. Team

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Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

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A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.

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