Blue Horseshoe Stocks: TWTR Options & More

Globus Maritime, Ltd. GLBS

We included GLBS as a part of our extended watchlist yesterday after noticing that the stock had produced a solid session on Tuesday. Our hunch that the run could continue proved to be good, as the stock posted another nice intraday performance.

GLBS traded in a range from a low of 5.122 to a high of 8.769, a move of 71% and it came on more than seven times the monthly average volume. We’ll keep a slot on our watchscreens reserved for GLBS in the event it maintains its upward momentum and strings together a multi-day run.


Agora Holdings, Inc. AGHI

We’ve continued to follow AGHI as it has seen some consolidation over the past few sessions, and the lower it has crept, the more attractive it has begun to look as a bounceplay opportunity.

If you notice on the included chart, the stock has a recent track record of making a serious run-up from current PPS levels. The last time it traded below a dime, that was followed by a huge pop to more than .20. That’s just the kind of rebound we’ll be looking for as the stock searches for support.



Twitter, Inc. TWTR – Options Idea

In conjunction with buyout rumors that have been swirling around Twitter, we happen to like the look of the present chart, and thus we’d like to formulate a corresponding options idea. We’ve had a reasonable amount of success with the TWTR options chain in the past, and current conditions seem favorable enough to signal an extended-term idea today.

We’re going to place the TWTR 01/20 $19 and $20 Calls for the time being, with the added caveat that a buyout actually coming to fruition would very likely necessitate an adjustment to our strike prices.


Extended Watchlist:
RIG, SDRL, REXX, CLRB, TOPS, DRYS

Blue Horseshoe Stocks: New Plays, Fresh Options Ideas & More

Options Ideas

The first thing we want to do this morning is provide an options update on the idea we submitted in yesterday morning’s premarket report, as well as furnish a new idea on another interesting prospect.

Bank of America Corp. BAC – Our targeted BAC 07/15 $15 Calls didn’t exactly knock our socks off, but still recorded a notable intraday upswing. We watched as they traded up from a low of .27 to a high of .34; a modest but respectable gain of 26% We’ll be sure to leave a slot on our watch-screens reserved for those contracts with more than a month remaining until their expiration.

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Fresh Idea: Hertz Global Holdings, Inc. HTZ – Last week, billionaire activist investor Carl Icahn made a sizable increase to his already huge position in HTZ, to the tune of roughly $9.6M added at prices just below $10, making him a 15.24% stakeholder. The stock has been performing exceedingly well since the transactions went public.

We’ve benefited greatly from following Icahn’s money in the past, and want to tag some HTZ Calls for tracking on the chance that it could happen again. Our targets are going to be the HTZ Weekly $11 & $11.50 Calls.


Energy Sector Ideas

Stone Energy Corp. SGY – Is looking strong in premarket trading today. The stock recently set a new 52-week low approximately three weeks back, and has made a couple of nice moves off of that bottom since then.

We’re interested in tracking the activity in this play in sessions to come, especially granted the fact that it will be undergoing a 10-for-1 reverse split, effective as of Monday’s opening bell.

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Rex Energy Corp. REXX – This stock has been in a similar position on its own chart, making good strides off of recently-registered relative lows, and has actually breached its 50DMA (.85) in early trading this morning. The next patch of resistance is likely to arise in the channel between 1.20 and the 200DMA of 1.45.


Baristas Coffee Co., Inc.  BCCI

Lastly,  a quick recap of BCCI’s performance yesterday after appearing in our premarket report. From a low of .06, we observed the stock trade up to a high of .08; an intraday move of 33%

This is another stock that recorded new 52-week lows toward the end of May, and has followed up with solid moves up off of that bottom. We’ll continue to keep an eye on the activity in this play.


Blue Horseshoe Stocks: Several Updates, New Ideas & More

Linn Co. LNCO & Linn Energy LINE

We often include this related pair together and have mentioned them several times in past reports. Most recently was a week ago today, when we called attention to the fact that their [nearly identical] charts were trading at a relative bottom and looking ripe for a rebound. It didn’t take long for our expectations to come to fruition, with both stocks posting solid performances during yesterday’s session.

LNCO ran from .355-.515 for a move equaling 45%, while LINE did slightly better with a run from .32-.50, representing a  56% intraday upswing.


Rex Energy Corp. REXX

We took notice of the momentum that had built up in REXX yesterday, leading us to include a mention of it in our premarket report. We liked its chances of continuing the pattern it had established on the heels of a purchase agreement announcement, and that’s just what it did.

From a morning low of 1.03 we witnessed REXX run as high as 1.44 shortly after 1PM. That registers as an intraday pop of 40% We’ll continue to keep an eye on this play provided it can maintain support above a dollar on any pullbacks.

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Added Note: GEVO was another one from yesterday’s report to trade solidly in the morning and early afternoon. The stock made a relatively small 20% intraday move from .25-.30. It’s still hovering around that high early on today, so we’ll be leaving GEVO on our radars also, for the time being.


Oil-Related Plays

We also wanted to remind our readers of the plays we’ve been tracking recently that are tied to big oil:

VelocityShares 3x Long Crude Oil ETN – UWTI
Petroleo Brasiliero SA (Petrobras) PBR

Both have been putting up solid performances with oil having been on a bullish tear in recent sessions. It appears as if many oil stocks are gapping up in the premarket, so we’ll be interested to follow the resultant action in our own oil-related interests. In the case of Petrobras, we want to go ahead and signal a possible options idea: We’ll be looking at observing PBR Weekly $6 & $6.50 Calls over the remainder of the week.


Strikeforce Technologies, Inc. SFOR – Recap

We also want to take a second to comment on the early move made by another of our recent items of interest, SFOR. In the video chart we published, we mentioned needing to see it hold above a specific support level and it managed to do so for the first part of the session. The stock caught a bounce off of the .0026 level and ran 62% intraday to .0042.

That daily high represented an overall new high for us as well. We’ve now seen a total jump of 500% over our observed low of .0007 from the day of our initial alert on March 31st.


Extended Watchlist:
MDVN, GSS, SDOC, AGTK, TALK, KGNX(Bottom-bouncer)