Blue Horseshoe Stocks: Pharma News

Pharma News Drives Sector

Somewhat of a reversal of fortunes has befallen major healthcare middlemen this week, and for them it’s good news. The Trump administration is doing a 180° on proposed changes to drug rebates that would have cost the healthcare industry.

The development is causing healthcare stocks to rise here in the premarket, and a few that have caught our eye in particular, are UNH, CI, and CVS. Each of these plays is flying high in early trading, so what we’re going to look for is a classic dip-and-rip scenario. Profit-taking right out of the starting gate should drive these stocks down off of their lofty premarket highs, and that’s when where we come in with the following ideas.

CVS Health Corp. CVS Weekly $57-58.50 Calls
Cigna Corp. CI $167.50-175 Calls
United Health Corp. UNH $250-255 Calls 


Extended Watchlist:
PCG, NAVB, TRNX, OMER, ATOS, HTGM, DPLO, KBLB

Blue Horseshoe Stocks: LAHO Update & More

Lans Holdings, Inc. LAHO

When we brought LAHO to our readers exactly a week ago today, it was trading at .0005. After just a couple of sessions, it had registered a huge 240% move to a high of .0017. The stock then pulled back .0006 on Friday, and over another two sessions, ran back to .0014. That marks another upswing of 133% bring our four-day cumulative total to 373%

As sub-penny plays tend to do, we would expect to see LAHO continue to bounce around in this fashion. Savvy traders may yet see similar chances to profit, moving forward.


Wellness Matrix Group Inc. WMGR

WMGR is another stock that we wanted to put on our radars this morning. Regular readers of ours may recall that we occasionally include mentions of plays that are suggested to us by our followers themselves, when warranted. Such is the case with WMGR, which was brought to us by David S.

What we’ve got in WMGR is an incredibly low float stock (Just 4M shares!) that has been inching up incrementally on rising volume in recent sessions. We’re going to want to monitor in in the days and weeks ahead, as such low flot plays have the ability to make notable upswings over a relatively short time period.



NAVB & ABIO – Bottom-Bouncers

We also would like to call attention to a couple of stocks that we’ve mentioned on multiple occasions in the past, both in the biotech/pharma space. NAVB and ABIO registered as the NASDAQ’s 2nd and 4th top gainers of the day yesterday. In both cases, this followed considerable sell-offs. NAVB had been in steady decline since early April, and ABIO for the past three weeks.

We want to keep an eye on the situation on the chance that these bottom bounces were not isolated events. We’ll look for NAVB and ABIO to begin to establish higher highs and higher lows in coming sessions.


Extended Watchlist:
AMPG, AMBA, NLS, BOX, CAL,

Blue Horseshoe Stocks: GIS, FDX Options

Options Updates

The Michaels Companies, Inc. MIK – One of our fresh ideas for yesterday morning’s premarket report was a post-earnings target of the MIK 04/18 $12.50 Calls combined with a solid technical setup as a bottom-bounce play.

The stock turned in a very solid performance on the day, coming up just shy of its 50DMA, and that produced a significant gain opportunity for the contract set we designated. The $12.50 Calls traded up of a low of .60, and hit 1.35, marking an intraday run of 125% We’ll want to continue to reserve a spot on our radar for this play, and watch for the stock to continue to establish higher lows and higher highs off of its recent 52-week lows.
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StoneCo Inc STNE – We also had the STNE 04/18 $37.50 & $39 Calls highlighted in yesterday’s report, and while we didn’t see quite the same intensity of activity as the above-mentioned play, that pair of contracts did get off to a good start, with nearly a full month remaining until expiration.

The $37.50’s traded in a range from 4.60-6.20 for a 35% move, and the $39’s went from 4.20-5.00 (+19%). We’ll continue tracking these as well.
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Fresh Post-Earnings Ideas:

FedEx Corp. FDX Weekly $172.50-170 Puts
General Mills, Inc. GIS 04/18 $47.50-50 Calls


Extended Watchlist:
SCNA, NAVB, TYHT, NVRO, PIR