Blue Horseshoe Stocks: Update on AAPL & Extended Watchlist

Apple, Inc. AAPL – Options

On Friday, our morning report contained a blurb in which we stated we’d be “hot on the trail of potential gains in the Apple options chain”, and we certainly hope folks got in on some of the action that ensued. We have been following AAPL quite heavily since our report on Wed. the 14th, wherein we commented on the Apple-Beats buyout rumor.

AAPL stock tore out of the gate, bulling its way up all day to more than $614 just prior to the close. As a result, the options contracts we were following in the $605-610 range steadily ramped up in price over the course of the session.

As you can see on the graphic below, some truly notable gains were possible for anyone trading these contracts. The daily ranges on these things were quite impressive:

$605 Calls – Day’s Range: 2.15-9.76 – Max Gain: 354%

$607 Calls – Day’s Range: .83-7.13 – Max Gain: 759%

$610 Calls – Day’s Range: .25-4.70 – Max Gain: 1780%

It really wouldn’t have mattered which Calls you were into on Friday- traders literally could have thrown a dart at a board filled with contracts and come up with a winner!

AAPL continued to press upward this morning, as the stock has traded as high as the 618.90’s in pre-market activities. Now that it has broken well above the previous resistance point of $607.33, that’s the level we’d like to see hold as support in the event of any pullbacks.

Other stocks that had significant gains in the options calls from last week that we want to continue to monitor this week include: DDD, TSLA, GOGO, DDD & FEYE



Side Note:

Triton Distribution Systems, Inc. TTDZ now trading as:
Green Cures & Botanical Distribution Inc. GRCU

TTDZ, a stock that has given us many chances to profit in 2014, finally underwent the name and symbol change that we had been anticipating, becoming GRCU.

If you recall, this play was one of the largest runners we encountered during the “green rush” earlier this year. We caught it at a low of .0012 on January 30th, and subsequently rode it to a high of .049 in early April. For anyone without a calculator handy, that equates to a staggering move of 3983% in just over two months time! It’s hard not to call that one of our biggest successes of the year so far.

The company has also gone live with a new website that you can find @ http://gcbdinc.com/

We’re going to begin monitoring this, and other marijuana related plays more heavily in coming weeks. As many of you will remember, we’re anxiously awaiting the start of legal sales in Washington State, presently slated for mid-July. It could very well provide the cannabis sector with another swell of interest and buying, much like the beginning of sales in Colorado did back in January, which of course sparked one of the most monumental sector surges the penny markets have ever seen.


Extended Watchlist:
BCRX, ARO, VRNG, INO, SPEX, ADXS

CHTP, TSLA, CANN & Extended Watchlist

Chelsea Therapeutics International, Inc. CHTP

This is a bio-pharma play that we’ve mentioned in the past, which has been undergoing some interesting activity. The stock recently fell off of a cliff, coming down from nearly 4.50 at the end of 2013, to find a bottom in the high 2.20’s on Monday. It was halted for yesterday’s session over the release of an FDA-approval related PR (below), and has resumed trading pre-market this morning, already up over 150%.  It will be exciting to see how the pattern unfolds today. Rest assured, we will be laying in wait for what appears to be potential breakout conditions.


Tesla Motors, Inc. TSLA – Options Ideas

It’s been awhile since we delivered any options-trading ideas, and have noticed some potential with TSLA. The stock was on the move yesterday, punching over the $160-mark. We want to radar the $165 & $170 Weekly Calls (Expiring 01/18) for possible intraday flip opportunities.

For instance- The 170 Calls closed at 1.17 yesterday, and will most likely gap up this morning, to the tune of 100%. If we were to see a move to $180 out of TSLA, those contracts could potentially approach the $10-mark


Advanced Cannabis Solutions, Inc. CANN

CANN was among a group of pot stocks that we added to our tracking list last week, and even as some of the other marijuana plays have been searching out a bottom, this one has managed to sustain its uptrend. We mentioned that it was on the rebound yesterday morning, and from its open at 8.00, the stock managed to close at 10.40. That marks a single-session move of 30%


Extended Watchlist:
DTLK, ARO, STXS, HEB, ATRS

GRNH, Options Trading Ideas & Extended Watchlist

Aeropostale, Inc. ARO

The 10/19 $9 Calls that we mentioned yesterday morning opened up significantly as we expected they would. After the subsequent consolidation which brought the price back to 1.05, we saw a spike to as much as 1.55 as you can see on the chart below. That was good for a possible intraday gain of 48%

With roughly a month left until the expiration of these contracts, there’s plenty of time for the stock to regain some of its recently lost ground and potentially fill the gap on the chart up to the $11-range. With the kind of drastic stride it made yesterday (jumping from the $8-range to the $10-range) we’ll also need to be wary of possible pullbacks filling that gap to the downside.


Facebook Inc. FB

As FB has recently been approaching its 52-week highs, we’re interested in weekly Calls, especially if the stock can break the $46 barrier. In that event, we’d be looking at in-the-money Calls like the 09/21 $45.50’s. On the flipside, if the stock fails to push past $46 we would be looking to flip the $46 Puts as a pullback would push them in-the-money.


GreenGro Technologies GRNH

This is another marijuana related stock that we’ve tracked for quite some time. GRNH has made some nice moves over the past several weeks, and is currently in consolidation mode as it has been coming off of its most recent spike. We are keeping a close eye on this one for a potential bottom play. If it can maintain support above the 50DMA of .042 we like its chances of seeing a nice rebound in the future.


Extended Watchlist:
NEWL, DNDN, ATOS, ZQK, IDRA, PCWT