Blue Horseshoe Stocks: Retail Stays Hot

Retail Stays Hot

We formulated a couple of earnings related ideas in the retail space in yesterday’s premarket report. The first thing we’ll do is outline the huge multi-bag gains that traders could have netted with the help of our alerts.

The sector as a whole has been producing some good opportunities recently, and with a couple more big names reporting yesterday postmarket and in the premarket this morning, we’ll also hash out a couple of new ideas as well.

Target Corp. TGT  Weekly $75-77 Calls

$75 Calls – Range: .75-1.93 – Max Gain: 157%
$75.50 Calls – Range: .57-1.58 – Max Gain: 177%
$76 Calls – Range: .38-1.29 – Max Gain: 239%
$76.50 Calls – Range: .30-.98 – Max Gain: 227%
$77 Calls – Range: .18-.75 – Max Gain: 317%
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Kohl’s Corp. KSS Weekly $68.50-70.50 Calls

$68.50 Calls – Range: .80-3.40 – Max Gain: 325%
$69 Calls – Range: .65-2.95 – Max Gain: 354%
$69.50 Calls – Range: .58-2.56 – Max Gain: 341%
$70 Calls – Range: .40-2.10 – Max Gain: 425%
$70.50 Calls – Range: .35-1.75 – Max Gain: 400%
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Fresh Ideas:
Abercrombie & Fitch Co. ANF Weekly $22.50-24 Calls
Dollar Tree, Inc. DLTR Weekly $97.50-101 Calls


Extended Watchlist:
XXII, ZAYO, TSG, SGYP, ESNC, BPTH,

Blue Horseshoe Stocks: Reviewing Recent Winners

STOCK RECAPS

Much of our focus gets devoted to options ideas these days, as they represent the greatest chance for large short term gains for traders. However, we still scan every day for stocks, and we wanted to begin this new trading week by highlighting a few of our recent picks that have met or exceeded our expectations.

Bio-Path Holdings, Inc. BPTH – Beginning with the least recent, roughly five weeks ago on January 23rd, BPTH was a stock we tagged as a bottom-watch play. The stock essentially traded sideways for the next month, only making nominal gains. That is until the latter half of last week, when it began to heat up on Thursday, and subsequently explode on Friday, performing beautifully on the day. The stock logged the number one gain on the entire NASDAQ, as it traded up from a low of 2.65 before reaching a high of 8.84.

That works out to a mind-melting 234% single-session rise on massive volume, which is extremely uncommon for big board plays. Cheers to anyone who caught a ride on this shooting star!
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Lexicon Pharma, Inc. LXRX – Appearing in Friday morning’s report was LXRX, which certainly didn’t see the level of activity as the previously mentioned play, but still posted positive figures on the day. From a low of 5.55, the stock rose as high as 7.07, marking a comparatively small but respectable intraday increase of 27%
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China Internet Nationwide Financial Services, Inc. CIFS – Also included in Friday’s report was CIFS, which also had a reasonably strong session following our alert. The low came in at 2.30 before the stock surged into the close at its high of day of 3.25. That represents a solid intraday gain of 41% We’ll also want to see if the stock can carry some of that momentum at the close, over to this fresh trading week.


Funko, Inc. FNKO – Options Review

We also signaled our interest in the FNKO 03/15 $22.50 & 25 Calls on Friday, and we got solid performances out of those contracts. The $22.50 Calls ran from .28-.70 for a gain of 150%
while the $25 also recorded a 150% pop from .10-.25.
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Fresh Options Ideas:
SPY 03/04 $280.50-282 Calls*

*Never trade options on their day of expiration unless you are a highly experienced trader with access to disposable funds!


Extended Watchlist:
MYOK, OPHT, NK, CPST, SLS, TRHC, RKDA, MBOT, FTNW, FCEL

Blue Horseshoe Stocks: Options Roundup & More

OPTIONS ROUNDUP

One of our top activities each day is poring over the previous day’s post-market quarterly earnings reports, as well as the premarket releases from that morning, in order to find those stock most likely to produce the type of volatility we look for to make quick-strike trades.

The earnings calendar is rather busy at present, with three names jumping to the forefront on our scanner today. We’ll give a brief overview of their quarterly highlights, as well as ranges of contracts to place on watch for the remainder of the week.

International Business Machines Corp. IBM
-Beat on profit, strong outlook
Radar: Weekly $130-134 Calls

United Technologies Corp. UTX
-Earnings and revs beat, more than 70% increase in Q4 profit
Radar: Weekly $113-118 Calls

The Procter & Gamble Co. PG
-Strong sales, earnings beat, boosted guidance
Radar: Weekly $93-95.50 Calls


Extended Watchlist:
CODX, SYF, EARS, QSR, BPTH, PUMP, IDEX