Top Day Trader Alerts (ARNA, VVUS, DVR, HLX, ETFC, SCHW, PALM)

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These are this Friday morning’s top day trader and active trader alert stocks with moves on unusual volume.  We have also provided more details on price and volume analysis with links through to each stock at VSInvestor.com:

Arena Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: ARNA) had good news but is trading lower as VIVUS Inc. (NASDAQ: VVUS) looks better.

Cal Dive International Inc. (NYSE: DVR) is trading 3% lower on a seondary offering of shares that is being sold by Helix Energy Solutions Group, Inc. (NYSE: HLX).

E*TRADE Financial Corporation (NASDAQ: ETFC) is trading up sharply at the expense of Charles Schwab (NASDAQ: SCHW) after a Goldman Sachs analyst call.

Mueller Water Products (NYSE: MWA) is actually trading up after its secondary offering size was increased on strong demand from a large underwriting group.

Palm Inc. (NASDAQ: PALM) is trading down marginally, but is seems like its direction is not clear yet.  We have more details on levels to watch for support and resistance.

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Jon C. Ogg
September 18, 2009

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About the Author Douglas A. McIntyre →

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.

His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.

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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