Tag: DCTH

Blue Horseshoe Stocks: BABA, ABIL Recaps & More

Options Recap

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. BABA– There was quite a to-do yesterday morning after BABA went rocketing up in the premarket on raised revenue guidance, and we jumped at the chance to signal some options ideas to correspond with the activity.

In our premarket report we highlighted the BABA Weekly $140-145 Calls  with the explicit warning that “Whenever a stock has gapped up this hard, we must be on the lookout for an early pullback into a dip-and-rip pattern” and we really couldn’t have been more spot-on with how we approached this play if we had a working crystal ball.

We don’t have that, but we do have loads of experience identifying winning options plays, and not only did the stock behave exactly as we said it would, selling off before exploding to new highs, but every single contract we highlighted went bananas as a result.  Regardless of which of our four highlighted contracts was chosen as the strike price, gains ranging from the 1100% to the 3100% range. Not bad for a day’s work!

$140 Calls – Range: .34-4.40 – Max Gain: 1167%
$141 Calls – Range: .25-3.65 – Max Gain: 1360%
$142 Calls – Range: .16-2.87 – Max Gain: 1694%
$143 Calls – Range: .12-2.41 – Max Gain: 1908%
$145 Calls – Range: .05-1.63 – Max Gain: 3160%

We’re going to look for similar chart activity today to lead to further gains in these plays, but as we always do when discussing weekly options on a Friday, we feel obligated to warn our readers that trading such contracts is for EXPERT traders only!
____

Yahoo! YHOO – We were also looking at some YHOO contracts yesterday, although they didn’t have much open interest with the exception of the Weekly $55 Calls. Those ran from .10 to 1.01 for a 910% rip on the day.

Ability, Inc. ABIL

On Wednesday morning we flagged ABIL as a possible bottom-play and the subsequent activity over the ensuing two sessions has been excellent.

The first day it ran from .6298-.91, for a solid 44% rise, and yesterday, it one-upped its performancde with an intraday run from .80 to a new high of 1.69. It was good for a daily pop of 111% and a total two-session upswing over our observed low amounting to 168%

Delcath Systems, Inc. DCTH

We also want to mention DCTH this morning, a stock that had been in a continual downtrend for months on end. It just began to show life yesterday and is gapping up in premarket trading this morning, so we’ll just want to keep an eye peeled.

As we said, this stock has been ridiculously oversold for a long while, so the resulting snapback could turn out to be pretty impressive. .

Extended Watchlist:
ADHD, CAMT, GMO, OPTT, RADA

Blue Horseshoe Stocks: More New Highs for OCRX, Updates

Ocera Therapeutics, Inc. OCRX

We caught OCRX coming up off its bottom and included it in Wednesday’s morning report. That day the stock ran from .77 to 1.15 (+49%) on massive volume.

We mentioned as much in yesterday’s premarket report, highlighting the strong close, and noting that “another bullish session could be forthcoming” provided the stock didn’t dip below 1.10 on any pullbacks. We got just what we were looking for; another bullish session as the stock traded up from 1.24 to 1.94, an intraday increase of 56%

It registers as a two-day swing of 152% over our observed low from Wednesday, and we’re going to want to be on the lookout for the stock to have a strong close to the week as well. It closed at 1.89, just under the high of day, once again with huge volume on the order of sixteen times the monthly average.


Caterpillar, Inc. CAT – Options Update

Our regular readers will recall our options idea on Caterpillar that we offered up in our report from last Friday morning. We were tracking the stock over a significant backslide in the sessions leading up to that and felt it had further to fall, so we highlighted the CAT 04/07 $88-85 Puts, choosing an extended expiration date to give our idea time to mature.

Since then, it has worked like a charm, with our identified contracts each making triple-digit percentage gains as CAT stock continues to fall:

$88 Calls – Range: .50-1.36 – Max Gain: 172%
$87.50 Calls – Range: .51-1.22 – Max Gain: 139%
$85 Calls – Range: .27-.74 – Max Gain: 208%


Bottom-Bounce Watchlist

Catabasis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. CATB – We’re interested to follow CATB, which we noticed is coming up off its bottom and gapping up in the premarket this morning. Even at its early high of 1.79, there’s still a sizable portion of the monster gap we pointed out below left to fill.

Pareteum Corp. TEUM – In the case of TEUM, it began to show hints of a reversal yesterday after several bearish sessions, and it too is gapping up in premarket trading today. We’ll keep an eye on this one as well.

Extended Watchlist:
CCTL, MYSZ, PRKR, SRRA, DCTH

Blue Horseshoe Stocks: LOTE Recap & More

Lot78, Inc. LOTE

Yesterday, as we were congratulating those of our members who had caught our tag of LOTE in last Thursday morning’s premarket report, which ran 70% from .0037- .0063 on Friday,  we mentioned that our continued interest in the stock was predicated on it maintaining support above .0046. Not only did it manage to do so, but what followed was a monstrous session that carried it from subpenny territory, on into Pennyland! It was a truly excellent way to kick off the short trading week.

From a daily low of .0052, LOTE roared its way to an afternoon high of .0152. a move of exactly a penny, which provided the chance at intraday gains of up to 192%  From our observed low of .0037 from the prior session, that represents a two-day swing of 311% The move came in conjunction with the stock’s third-highest trading volume of 2016, and the close came just two ticks below the HOD, at .015.

We’ll certainly have LOTE, which now qualifies as a momentum-play, near the top of our watchlist as we progress through this holiday-shortened week. On any pullbacks, we’ll want to see the stock maintain support above a penny.

BIND Therapeutics, Inc. BIND

Another solid pick from yesterday’s report came in the form of BIND, a company that had filed for Chapter-11 this spring.

We caught this one on the heels of its acceptance of Pfizer’s $20M stalking horse bid, in which the pharma giant intends to acquire most of the bankrupt company’s assets barring the submission of any higher bids when the assets go to auction later this month.

As for the opportunity that was present following our inclusion of the play in yesterday’s morning report, BIND traded in a daily range from .57-.79, a respectable single-session rip of 39%  We’ll continue to track this play in the event it can hold support above yesterday’s swing low.

Santa Fe Gold Corp. SFEG

On Friday morning, we marked SFEG for tracking, and what has followed is two big sessions of solid gain opportunities. Before breaking for the holiday weekend, the stock traded in a range from .0115-.0165 for an initial gain of 43%

Then yesterday, things really took off in a northerly direction as the stock traded up from .0194 to an impressive new high of .044. That came out to a single-session jump of 127% and a two-day swing amounting to 283%

With the stock firmly in blue sky breakout territory, we’ll want to continue to keep an eye peeled to monitor its activity going forward. Considering the kind of volatility we’ve witnessed thus far, a dip-and-rip scenario could be waiting to play out on the chart.
_____

Added Note: Speaking of gold plays, the markets experienced a selloff yesterday, and appear to be in line for another possible downturn today. As such, we’ll look to these gold-related stocks as a corresponding idea.

AngloGold Ashanti Ltd. AU and Royal Gold, Inc. RGLD

Extended Watchlist:
GCHK, TALK, SOUP, DCTH,