Top Active Trader Alert Stocks (BPAX, STKL, UTHR)

June 6, 2011 by Douglas A. McIntyre

Active traders and day traders have many stocks to choose from this Monday morning.  We are tracking news and moves in shares of BioSante Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: BPAX), unOpta, Inc. (NASDAQ: STKL), and United Therapeutics Corporation (NASDAQ: UTHR).

BioSante Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: BPAX) is up 4% before market open to $3.12, relative to a 52-week range of $1.29-$3.20. The FDA recently lifted a clinical hold it had placed on the company’s prostate cancer vaccine.

SunOpta, Inc. (NASDAQ: STKL) is up 17.5% premarket to $8.70, relative to a 52-week range of $3.98-$8.83. Shares are up after Jim Cramer spoke favorable of the stock on his “Mad Money” TV show.

United Therapeutics Corporation (NASDAQ: UTHR) is down roughly 6% premarket to $58.90, relative to a 52-week range of $46.14-$70.74. The company announced the primary endpoint of a hypertension drug it had been performing trials on.

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