Acorda Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: ACOR) was covered already this morning for its significant price-volume alert. Including teh after-hours session at 4:45 PM EST we saw some 14.54 million shares trade and the stock closed out down 21% at $17.52. This volume is impressive even if the price drop is not, but there was also a huge jump in the options trading for OCT-2009. Here is the options volume today with a comparison to the open interest to show just how active this was:
CALL$    Volume    OpInt
 17.50    6,020    931
 20.00    20,124    1,184
 22.50    2,536    6,054
 25.00    35,130    5,919
 30.00    6,497    8,258
 PUT$    Volume    OpInt
 7.50    1,805    310
 10.00    6,758    1,484
 12.50    4,989    2,511
 15.00    14,979    9,448
 17.50    10,468    12,271
 20.00    4,884    10,206
The FDA made its data public today:
JON C. OGG
 OCTOBER 9, 2009
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