Monday’s Watchlist: Options Ideas, Momentum Plays

Options Trading: Lululemon Athletica, Inc. LULU Calls

Last Monday, we mentioned an Options Trading idea, as we were looking at the LULU $65 Calls. We believed that LULU stock could head up past $67 and push toward the $68-level. On Wednesday, the $65 Calls were trading below .30. By Friday, we got the move that we were looking for out of the stock (hit high of 67.90), pushing those Calls as high as 2.80 as shown on the intraweek chart below.

This play was was a good example of why we like to monitor options contracts as they approach expiration, as they can exhibit some of their most volatile activity during that period. Even those who didn’t catch on until Friday could have walked away with up to 100% in intraday gains.


Celsion Corp. CLSN
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OXiGENE, Inc. OXGN

Each of these stocks, after appearing in Friday morning’s extended watchlist would go on to perform well for the session:

CLSN traded from a low of 1.35, and spiked 15% to 1.55.

OXGN saw a daily range from a low of 3.31, and touching a high of 3.81 for a possible gain of 16%


TechnoConcepts, Inc. TCPS
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TheDirectory.com, Inc. SEEK

Both of these stocks qualified as momentum plays last week, thus will be on our list of stocks to monitor as we begin the new trading week:

On Friday, TCPS traded in a big range from .008-.04 on roughly 4X its 3mo. average volume.

SEEK went on a run last week as well, and on Friday traded massive volume, to the tune of more than 10X the 3mo. average.


Options Trading Side Note:
Following tomorrow’s market close Apple earnings will be released, so we are eager to see how AAPL stock reacts to those figures. If they will fail to impress, we should see a dip followed by a bounce- should they exceed the Street’s expectations, we will likely be looking at a gap-up and run on Wednesday morning. Either way it shakes out, we will be looking to take advantage with properly timed Calls placed in the money.


Extended Watchlist:
IWEB, NRBT, BTG, BCRX

Blue Horseshoe Stocks: LATF, Midday Updates

Latteno Food Corp. LATF

Most of our regular readers will remember us talking about LATF, along with all of the other medical and legal marijuana-related stocks that we have been tracking recently. We mentioned LATF specifically, as recently as March 26th. We talked about how we had brought it to our readers at the beginning of February, as low as .023, only to see it run to .23, gaining as much as 900% in the process.

We had been observing as it began to cool down, mentioning that we were on the lookout for a bottom, and another chance to take LATF for a ride. It reached that bottom the very next day, on the 27th, touching .015 before beginning the recovery that we were after. The stock has continued this recovery through last week and into this week, and today, has reached as high as .044. That represents a highly respectable 193% move in a span of just two weeks.

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Like we stated above, LATF is just one of cannabis related stocks that we have been tracking this year, as our regular readers will remember, we have canvassed the sector for quite some time, and it has been one of our favorite and most lucrative areas of interest recently. To the already sizable list of marijuana plays, we have several related additions for you this afternoon, that we feel should be added to our running watchlist. We suggest our readers keep similar watchlists of their own.

AERO – Aero Grow International, Inc.
AQNM – Aquentium, Inc.
ATTBF – Abattis Bioceuticals Corp
AVTC – AVT, Inc.
BISU – Bio-Solutions Corp.
CANV – CannaVest Corp.
CIIX – Chineseinvestors.com, Inc.
CTH.V – Cynapsus Therapeutics Inc.
ECUI – Ecuity, Inc. –
EDXC – ENDEXX Corp.
GTLA – GT Legend Automotive Holdings Inc.
GWPH – GW Pharmaceuticals Plc.
GWPRF – GW Pharmaceuticals Plc.
HESG – Health Sciences Group, Inc.
NRBT – Novus Robotics, Inc.
NTRR – Neutra Corp.
NVLX – Nuvilex, Inc.
PARS – Pharmos Corp.
SRER – SearchCore, Inc.
STBV – Strategic Global Investments, Inc.

STKO, PNCH & Extended Watchlist

SK3 Group, Inc. SKTO

SKTO dropped news regarding the acquisition of a cannabis-related company, sending the stock on a ride yesterday of over 480%

According to the release, SKTO added a significant amount to its bottom line, as the acquisition target is a company with  more than 12M dollars in licensing agreements.

With this new development, SKTO has effectively placed itself in the list of marijuana stocks that we’ve been monitoring for several months. We have been essentially scanning the entire sector continuously during that time, which has yielded us some sizable profits so far.

In case you might have missed a few here and there, this is a rundown of every single cannabis stock we’ve looked at recently:  PHOT, MJNA, CBIS, RFMK, ERBB, GRNH, MDBX, MWIP, TRTC, EXMT, EDXC. In addition to STKO, here are some other new stocks in the field that have caught our attention: FSPM, NRBT, GTLA, GWPRF, HESG, PARS, SRER, SFIO, NVLX.

MIAMI, FL, Mar 11, 2013 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) — SK3 Group, Inc. (OTC Pink: SKTO) today announces that it has acquired Medical Greens (TM) and has changed its business model to focus purely in the medical marijuana space. Medical Greens (TM) currently provides licensing, management, and logistic services for Medical Marijuana collectives throughout California. In 2013 alone, Medical Greens (TM) has already contracted over $12.5 Million in licensing and service agreements.

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IC Punch Media, Inc. PNCH

PNCH (formerly ICPA) has been a focus of ours a few times on the years past, and has brought us huge percentage gains. The first run we ever observed from this play took it from triple-zero country all the way up over a nickel, so we are well aware of its track record for explosive gains.

Yesterday PNCH once again triggered our scanners as it broke a key resistance point at .005, an area on the chart that it has been struggling to surpass since November.  Up until that time, .005 had acted as support, and we’ve been waiting for a move back above it, and now that it has, we’d like to see that once again become the support level for the stock.

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Extended Watchlist:
FRTD, MDIN, CLNO, PPHM, GNIN, CLSN, ECTE, GLUU