Top Day Trader Alerts (FOLD, BRCD, COF, FITB, SCLN, TRID, WFC)

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By Douglas A. McIntyre Updated Published

These are this morning’s top day trader alerts and active trader alert stocks for Monday.  We have more details on volume and price analysis on each stock covered at VSInvestor.com:

Amicus Therapeutics (NASDAQ: FOLD) is hitting 52-week lows on its type 1 Gaucher disease treatment disappointment.

Brocade Communications Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: BRCD) is trading up over 13% after the company has reportedly up for sale.

Capital One Financial Corp. (NYSE: COF) and Fifth Third Bancorp (NASDAQ: FITB) are both higher despite Goldman Sachs dropping FITB in favor of COF for its Conviction Buy List.

SciClone Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ:SCLN) is down 7% but not as bad as it could have been after dropping its Phase 2 trial evaluating RP101 for late-stage pancreatic cancer.

Trident Microsystems Inc. (NASDAQ: TRID) is surging on higher guidance and an NXP combination of their digital TV and Set-Top box businesses.

Wells Fargo & Co. (NYSE: WFC) is up over 4% on the Goldman Sachs upgrade.

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JON C. OGG
October 5, 2009

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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.

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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