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Blue Horseshoe Stocks: Options Trading Ideas

Intuitive Surgical, Inc. ISRG

When we first tagged ISRG back on May 6th, the stock was just making its way down to its 3-year low, which came a couple of sessions later at 346.46. From that point, we saw a powerful uptrend that carried the stock back up to 426.43 (Jun 27th). It allowed us to play the options chain quite effectively over the course of several weeks.

Following that major run, we’ve seen some consolidation, coming back to the $380-level just recently, and currently, the stock is pressing new highs in premarket trading, to the tune of $444.

We did mention a long-term interest in the Aug.-Oct. $420-440 Calls back in June, and that insight is now paying off bigtime.

Petroleo Brasiliero S.A. PBR -Options

When we looked in on PBR on Monday, we were patting ourselves on the back for some excellent picks of last week’s $16.50 and $17 Weekly Calls, mentioning that we’d stick with the same ideas to begin this week.

It has turned out to be another great call on our part; just look at the action in those weekly calls during yesterday’s session:

The 16.50’s ran from .25 to 1.07, a possible intraweek gain of up to 328% while the $17 Calls surged from .13 up to .75, a 477% move. This was just one of many, many times that we’ve used the PBR options chain to our extreme advantage this year.

New Options-Trading Ideas

As our regulars have undoubtedly noticed, a good portion of our focus these days goes to options trading. We’ve become quite adept at spotting trends and using them to our benefit, and we’ve got a couple of new potential plays to add to the mix this morning.

Alcoa, Inc. AA

Alcoa has been building one beast of a chart over the past few months, and there looks to be no end in sight. We may be able to use this strong uptrend to leverage ourselves some nice gains out of AA Options. Specifically, the 08/16 $17 Calls, which closed at .44 yesterday after having traded in a range from .25-.48 on the day.

Yum! Brands, Inc. YUM

YUM got beat up recently, falling off a cliff at the $83-area, and yesterday was the first session since that the stock has found some support, down around $74. Our options idea here is to potentially utilize the rebound for some quick-strike gains. We’ll be monitoring the 08/08 $75 Calls, which closed at .82 yesterday.

Extended Watchlist:
DRL, DARA, TLM, PLUG, FCEL, POWR, PBYI

Blue Horseshoe Stocks: EAPH Updates & More

Easton Pharmaceuticals, Inc. EAPH
As we wrap up this short trading week, we thought we’d touch upon EAPH, a stock that has done big things for us this year. Some of our readers may recall our very first tag of this play back in January, around which time we observed the stock trading at a subpenny low of .0041.

By early February, less than a month later, EAPH shot up to a high of .0989 (+2300%) easily making it one of our top ten calls so far in 2014.

Since that huge run, there have been quite a few swings to follow, but the overall trend was toward consolidation, which over the past few months brought EAPH back to Earth. The stock bounced off of a low of .011 on 06/25, and over the past several sessions, has begun to recover some ground. Yesterday in particular brought EAPH close to the .02-mark, falling just shy with a high-of-day of .0197.

We’ll be paying closer attention to EAPH in sessions to come now that it has bounced off of support and is attempting to make up some of the ground lost in recent months. Key resistance is around the .021 level.

It’s just one of the marijuana-relatedstocks that began to feel a surge of life this week, as we suggested might happen in Tuesday morning’s report. Washington State’s legal sales will effectively begin next week, when the Liquor Control Board expects to issue the first retail licenses.

American Apparel, Inc. APP

APP, a stock that we have turned to for reliable profits year after year, has done exactly as we suggested when we brought it back to our reports on April 15th, noting that we were heading into the time of year when APP traditionally provides well for us; the stock was trading at a low of .47 around that time.

APP ran to more than .70 later that month, began to taper back into the .50-range and recently, on June 27th, the stock surged to hit a high of a dollar even, marking an overall move of 112%

As the stock consolidates off of that major spike, we will be watching for support, and the chance for possible bounceplay opportunities. The previous resistance area from .78-.82 is where we’ll be looking for support to hold. As the holiday retail season approaches, we will keep a continuous watch over APP.

Extended Watchlist:
DRL, ATNY, RAD, TRTC

Blue Horseshoe Stocks: PBR Update & More

Petroleo Brasiliero S.A. (Petrobras) PBR When we touched base with PBR on Wednesday morning, we mentioned that we were expecting some opportunities to come our way provided that the stock could hold support at or above its 200DMA (13.69).

We also showed interest in the July 19th $15 Calls, which, leading up to that point, had been trading in the .30-.38 range, and even ventured so far as to say that a double or triple could be possible. That move came rather quickly over the remainder of the trading week, as those contracts dipped as low as .25, and by the end of the day on Friday had come all the way back to close at .61.

For us, that represented an excellent three-session move, allowing gains of up to 144% for options traders. The stock itself made a modest move up also, to the tune of 8% from 13.62 to 14.77.

The PBR chart is still looking quite ripe, with several bullish indicators catching our attention. The RSI is strengthening rapidly, there appears to be a MACD cross in the making, and provided the stock can maintain support at or above the channel between the 50DMA of 14.19 and Friday’s swing low of 14.32, we like the chances of seeing even more gains from PBR.

For intraday/intraweek flip opportunities, we can look into the $14-$15 Weekly Calls, but granted the overall trend continues, a longer-term play will continue to be the 07/19 $15’s, which as we said, have already afforded us a double-bagger.

Shamika 2 Gold, Inc. SHMX

On Thursday, we added SHMX to the mix as a sub-penny play that had struck us as having some potential. As with the majority of stocks trading in the triple-zero range, SHMX is susceptible to rapid swings in price, and we saw that first hand as we closed out the week. On Friday, the stock saw a low of .0003, and a subsequent upswing to its closing price of .0005.

That made it possible for traders to nab a quick profit of 67%  We always want to be extremely cautious when dealing with volatile plays in this price range, as they are not for the faint-hearted. Quick-strike trades are the order of the day, and for more skilled traders, proper timing of each dip and rip can lead to gains really piling up.

Extended Watchlist:
TMSH, TBEV, IDIX, ACHN, SQNM, DRL, PGNX, PFIE, LIVE