Top Day Trader Alerts (GNVC, BLDP, CIEN, NLST, BIDU)

These are the top pre-market day trading and active trading stocks we have seen for trading on Tuesday morning.  We included a time stamp on each as they were taken over the last 20 minutes.

GenVec, Inc. (NASDAQ: GNVC) is running hard this morning after a $1.74 close on Friday.  Shares are up 15.5% at $2.01 on 1,066,559 shares as of 8:10 AM EST. Average volume is 1.9 million shares and the 52-week trading range is $0.33 to $1.99.  The company has entered into a Novartis collaboration collaboration for hearing loss.

Ballard Power Systems Inc. (NASDAQ: BLDP) is on the move but only on 10,000 shares as of 8:12 AM EST.  The company has invested with Dantherm and Danfoss to create a fuel cell backup power system capability.  Shares closed at $2.32 Friday and are trading at $2.65 this morning pre-market.  The 52-week range is $0.85 to $3.25 and the average daily volume is 430,00 shares.

CIENA Corporation (NASDAQ: CIEN) is up big this morning after Credit Suisse raised its rating to Outperform this morning.  Shares at 8:15 AM EST were up 6.5% at $12.38 on almost 475,000 share sin the pre-market trading. The 52-week range is $4.98 to $16.64 and the average volume is over 6.4 million shares.

Netlist Inc. (NASDAQ: NLST) is back on the most actives in pre-market trading.  The company has named a new board member and was granted two new patents for its hypercloud technology.  At 8:17 AM EST we have shares trading up 14.5% at $5.35 on 110,000 shares.   The 52-week range is $0.1 to $7.98 and average volume is 3.8 million shares.

Baidu, Inc. (NASDAQ: BIDU) closed at $467.68 Friday and shares are trading down 2.3% at $456.86 on 57,953 share sin the pre-market.  This is one to watch with Google maybe and maybe not leaving China and with its chief technology officer resigning over the weekend for personal reasons.  This stock rose over $60 last week.

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JON C. OGG