Blue Horseshoe Stocks: Trio of Post-Earnings Options Ideas

Trio of Post-Earnings Options Ideas

As our regular readers are more than aware, we are always looking in the earnings calendar to find potential quick-strike options trading opportunities. After a strong earnings report, chances to take advantage of the clamor for shares are often plentiful.

This morning we’ve got three separate ideas, to help us try to do just that. After solid reports all around we’re looking to formulate ideas for The TJX Companies, Inc. TJX, Advanced Auto Parts, Inc. AAP, and Kohls Corp. KSS options chains.

TJX 06/15 $85-90 Calls
AAP 06/15 $120-130 Calls

KSS Weekly $67.50-69.50 Calls


Agile Therapeutics, Inc. AGRX

Another thing we’re always looking for is bottom-play opportunities. We want to place AGRX on watch after seeing the stock get absolutely crushed over the past few sessions.

The short interest has risen dramatically as you can see on the AGRX page of Naked Short Report, and caused a serious gap down to perhaps unsustainably low levels. When an influx of buyers looking for a bargain comes in, we could see that gap begin to fill. We’ll have it on a close bottom watch.


Extended Watchlist:
MU, DNR, TGA, SYN, GSM

Blue Horseshoe Stocks: Potential Gap-Fillers & More

Hyatt Hotels Corp. H – Options Idea

We’re going to kick this week off by taking a look at Hyatt Hotels. This is a stock with a relatively predictable and volatile trading pattern. As you can see on the chart, H is coming down off of a quadruple-top formation, with indicators suggesting a significant bearish swing could occur at any time.

We want to designate a pair of contracts in the H options chain to track over the next week or two to coincide with this assumption. We’re going to slate the H 06/15 $85 & $80 Puts for observation as we kick off this fresh trading week.


Potential Gap-Fillers

We are going to flag Vista Outdoor, Inc. VSTO and Harbinger Group, Inc. HRG for technical reasons as well today, with each stock boasting a highly similar setup.

If you notice the side-by-side view of the charts below, both stocks have been working their way up off of a bottom, with a huge gap on the chart to the upside just waiting to be filled. We see these setups often, and in both cases here, the chances for a gap-fill appear greater than average.


Extended Watchlist:
MU, DDE, TRXC, MBFI

Blue Horseshoe Stocks: Interesting Bottom Plays

Biglari Holdings, Inc. BH

We noticed BH this morning purely on the stock’s interesting chart setup. The stock had been crushed down at the end of last month after the company announced its recapitalization plan. We’re not saying the move shouldn’t have resulted in a decline in the stock’s price, but these selloffs tend to have a snowball effect, and BH has been over-abused.

Simply take a look at the chart below and you can see what we[re talking about. The RSI has been as heavily oversold as you’re likely to see, while the stock has begun to regain some of its lost ground. The MACD is also loudly signaling the potential for a rebound, so we’ll have our eyes peeled.


International Flavors & Fragrances, Inc. IFF

Speaking of bottom play opportunities, we may have an even more interesting one here in IFF today. This stock is currently boasting a cherry of a chart as well, with all of the indicators we commonly scan for showing strong impending bullish signals. Not to mention the Form-4 filed yesterday wherein a 10% ownership insider purchased a $25M block at just a penny below yesterday’s closing price, down here at the bottom.

To help us leverage some good gains out of this one if indeed it can mount the rebound we suspect it might, we’re going to want to be tracking the IFF 06/15 $125-135 Calls.


Extended Watchlist:
VLRX. UPL, AMRS, SDR, CARV, EIGR, QTNT