What's the record high a stock rose in a single day?

[Akavall]

Does anybody know? Just wondering...
Thanks.

 

[Slim Harpo]

I don't know myself but this site has a lot of historical info regarding the stock market...For example:

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Original Dow Jones Industrial Average (1896)

American Cotton Oil

American Sugar

American Tobacco

Chicago Gas

Distilling & Cattle Feeding

General Electric

Laclede Gas

National Lead

North American

Tennesee Coal & Iron

US Leather preferred

US Rubber


http://www.finfacts.ie/Private/curency/historicalstocksreturnsperformance.htm

 

[Longhorns]

Quote from Akavall:

Does anybody know? Just wondering...
Thanks.

I'm sure some penny stocks have had multiple 1000% gains in a single day (SPEA went from about .50 cents to 12 dollars back in December "04).

Disregarding those B.S. stocks though, I remember stocks like Books-A-Million going from like 8 bucks to 80 in one day (I'm 99% sure it was the day after Thanksgiving in 1998). I think it closed in the $40's, but it was a massive one day move.

There were many small internet and biotech companies that went up a few hundred percent back in the day (late 90's).

Most recently though, Velocity Express (VEXP) went from like 4 dollars to 21 dollars and closed around $14 (That was back in April of this year).

 

[murray t turtle]

Quote from Akavall:

Does anybody know? Just wondering...
Thanks.

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Akatrader
Accelera.com made the Wall Street Journal in late 1990's,
pennies to about $170 did much, much better than QCOM that year QCOM did about 2000%

Numbers /names are approximate.

 

[Dustin]

As far as non-penny stocks, I remember the day in 1998 when EBAY opened about $90 higher after good earnings. My father sold his 500 share position the day before because he didn't want to hold into earnings lol.

 

[Free Thinker]

Quote from Akavall:

Does anybody know? Just wondering...
Thanks.

the biggest move i remember was broadcast.com i think it was bsct.
it went up something like 90 in one day and came most of the way back.

 

[Akavall]

I wonder if it's luck or you can somehow predict a move like that?

Thanks for the replies.

 

[Free Thinker]

Quote from Akavall:

I wonder if it's luck or you can somehow predict a move like that?

Thanks for the replies.

no

 

[The Kin]

Some OTC penny stocks see 10,000% gains.

 

[jficquette]

Quote from vhehn:

the biggest move i remember was broadcast.com i think it was bsct.
it went up something like 90 in one day and came most of the way back.

The biggest I remember was some "china" internet stock. It went from 2 to 80 and back to 2 by the end of the day. This was in late 90's.

John