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Blue Horseshoe Stocks: ARNA Recap & More

Arena Pharmaceuticals, Inc. ARNA

You have to go a long way back to find our very first coverage of ARNA. It was May 11th, 2012 that we first mentioned this stock as an item to have on long-term watch. At that time the company had an obesity treatment that was awaiting FDA approval.

The public sentiment during that summer was that FDA approval was all but in the bag, and as we waited the stock began a monstrous run from a low of 5.44 to the day of its approval when it hit 13.50, an overall increase of 148% It would be a very long time before we talked about ARNA again.

The next time was fairly recently on November 3rd when we included ARNA on our Extended Watchlist, and over a period of a few sessions, saw the stock make a decent move from a low of 4.12 to 4.76. After that, it endured a series of incremental pullbacks over the next several weeks.

Yesterday morning, in a stroke of superb timing we tagged the stock in our watchlist once again, and what it did next blew the run we witnessed in November right out of the water!  Coinciding with the announcement of positive top-line results on another of the company’s treatments (this one for autoimmune disease) ARNA made a huge intraday run from a low of 3.66 to all the way up to 6.09. That’s a hefty 66% increase in a single session, and it came on approximately 20X the 3-month average volume, so cheers are in order for anyone who took advantage of our timely alert!

Heritage Media Corp. HMCP

Since we mentioned HMCP for the first time on New Year’s Eve, the stock has provided us with a few quality swing-trade opportunities. That day the stock traded in a range from .0047 to .0068, an intraday gain of 45% In following sessions we then observed subsequent swings from .0037-.0064 (+73%) and .0034-.0062 (+82%) making HMCP a flipper’s dream.

As we point out on the snapshot below, what has formed on the chart is known as a bullish flag, which is known to be a signal of further gains. Couple that with an RSI that’s screaming toward the power zone, and it makes HMCP one that we’ll really need to watch closely as we head into week’s end.

Extended Watchlist:
BIND, BIOD, FOLD, NRX, CYRN, AVEO, ACUR, PLX, S

Blue Horseshoe Stocks: CBGI Update, Form-4 Scan & More

Cannabusiness Group, Inc. CBGI

After adding CBGI to our radar on Monday, (At a low of .0321), and putting the stock on high alert yesterday, we’ve managed to do very well with this new player in the medical marijuana game. If you recall, yesterday, we sounded the alarm on CBGI in our pre-market report, putting it on “high alert” after receiving news that the company had acquired a plot of land in California to commence its plans for a licensed cannabis grow operation. In addition, we pointed out the Golden Cross that was forming on the chart as another reason why CBGI was in a prime position to blow its top.

That’s exactly what took place, as the stock opened at .045, dipped briefly to .041, and the it was off to the races. We saw CBGI run 217% to .13, which also marked an overall gain of 305% from Monday’s low. Following that initial rip, the stock would pull back and bounce several times for added intraday opportunities, and landed us at the top of the Penny Stock Rumble:

Congratulations to anyone who was able to take advantage of the chance for quick-strike profits!

CBGI ended the day at .076 up over 120% from its previous close, and we’d like to see support hold in the .06-.07 range in order for this play to retain our interest. We are still on the cusp of seeing that Golden Cross, so we’ll be keeping an eye on CBGI through to next week, when it looks like that might occur.

Extended Watchlist Winners:

Pixelworks, Inc. PXLW

We’ve got to take a minute to applaud ourselves for another of yesterday’s selections. PXLW appeared in our Extended Watchlist and went on to have a beast of a day. The stock shot up from 6.31 to 9.05, a solid 43% increase, and did so on more than 30x  its 3-month average volume.

Fanny & Freddie (FNMA & FMCC)

Also making several appearances in our recent reports, we like the gains we’ve seen from this mortgage-lending pair. Both stocks have recently come from the $3.00-range and are now trading well over $5.00.

Form-4 Scan

Our regulars know that we periodically like to conduct Form-4 (Insider Trading) Scans, and have gleaned some big winners by doing so in the past (e.g. CETV made a 147% move for us). As a result of the one we ran this morning, we have a couple of stocks we’d like to throw into the mix:

Biodel, Inc. BIOD

BIOD popped up after several company officers filed their form-4’s which denote an exercise price of 3.37 (Currently trading in the mid-3.40’s), so we’ll be placing this one on our radar for sure. For our readers who may not be as well-versed, let us explain the significance. While Form-4’s reflecting the acquisition of shares by insiders shouldn’t be taken as a definite sign of something big brewing behind the scenes, it does suggest a certain in-house confidence in the stability of a stock that we like to see. It never hurts to put a stock on watch just in case there is something bigger going on.

Career Education Corp. CECO

The other one we spotted on this scan was CECO. A good number of Form-4’s have been submitted over the course of this week, so we’ll be throwing this one up on our radar sceens as well.

Side Note:

MLCG and MDCN are a couple of longer-term marijuana stocks that we think folks should have on their watchlists.

Extended Watchlist:
BMSN, FCEL, SKUL, NWBO, HART, CCRN, PLUG BSPM,

DEJ, PHOT & Extended Watchlist

Dejour Energy, Inc.  DEJ

We’re taking a look at DEJ this morning, an oil & gas play that is coming off of a recent bottom. Indicators on the chart seem to be ripening, so we wanted to put DEJ on everyone’s radar. As you can see, the RSI is coming off of being oversold, while the MACD is in the process of a bullish cross, with the blue bars on the histogram also flipping up to the bullish side.

Yesterday the company announced its entry into a letter of intent on a deal that will partner it with a privately-held energy company out of Singapore, and bring in a substantial amount of capital in the process:

VANCOUVER, British Columbia–(BUSINESS WIRE)-Dejour Energy Inc. (TSX:DEJ) (NYSE MKT:DEJ), an independent oil and natural gas exploration and production company operating in North America’s Piceance Basin and Peace River Arch regions, today announces that it has signed a Letter of Intent to create a strategic joint venture partnership with a private Singapore based energy company (‘SECO’) to develop the company’s Colorado oil and gas assets.

Upon completion of due diligence, legal documentation and requisite approvals expected prior to January 31, 2014, SECO will invest an initial sum of up to $27.5mm in 2014 and 2015 to earn an 85% share in Dejour’s interests in its Colorado properties  >> FULL PR

Growlife, Inc. PHOT

Many of you know, we’ve been pounding the table on PHOT and the marijuana industry as a whole for well over a year now. Beginning back in August, we started to ramp up our coverage of this stock. At the time PHOT was trading as low as .0299, and has continued to push the envelope ever since, bringing us up to the present where PHOT is now officially in Blue Sky Breakout mode.

The stock has reached lofty highs culminating in yesterday’s run up to .14, which represents an astonishing 368% increase off of the low we just mentioned, in just a few months’ time.

As is the case with any runner that’s streaking into the Blue Sky, we want to be cautious of a potential reversal. In the event of  pullback, we’d like to see support hold at the previous resistance level of .1045.

Important Industry Side Note: Not only have there been recent talks within the NY State legislature about plans for a bill that would legalize the drug in New York as it has been in Washington and Colorado, but Uruguay also recently became the first country in the world to effect nationwide legalization and regulation of growth, sales, and trade. The idea that marijuana prohibition is both ineffective and harmful on many levels is finally beginning to gain real headway in the mainstream.

12/16 – Newsweek Article: GrowLife Wants to Be Legal Weed’s Financier

Extended Watchlist:
FTR, KFN, BIOD, ATHX, VRNG, CREG