Quote from Htrader:
Someone gets Cramer's picks in advance. I don't know how, but every one of his major picks starts moving up at around 4:45-5:00pm, even though his show comes on at 6pm. Look at csco, and msft afterhours today and you can see the price move.
Same thing happened with MRO and CHP yesterday.
There was some scuttlebutt a few years ago about him while he was at the cnbc show in the morning. The rumor was that he was leaking to friends who he was going to pump that morning. This was to have started after he got some ratings going. Plus this was backin the late 90's when the market would go crazy at times. The whole matter just went away.
John