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Blue Horseshoe Stocks: Fresh New Options Ideas

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. BABA – Review
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On Friday morning, apart from recapping the amazing options idea we proffered in last week’s reports, we formulated one final fresh idea for the week. That was the BABA Weekly $165-162.50 Puts, and the performance there did not disappoint.

We sussed out multibag options gainers all week long, and this short on BABA was a solid way to cap it all off. The $165 Puts ran from a low of .78 and reached 2.26, for an intraday gain of 190% The $162.50’s also fared quite well, running from 1.84-4.36, which represents a 137% rip.
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SPDR S&P500 (ETF) SPY – Fresh Idea

In light of present conditions we’re observing, we’ll be staying on the short side of things with our fresh idea for today. We’re going to radar the SPY Weekly $290-288 Puts.

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Bonus Ideas:
Allakos, Inc. ALLK 08/16 $45-60 Calls 
Boeing, Inc. BA 09/06 $340-350 Calls

Extended Watchist: 
CEI, OESX, AYTU, FBIO, SAND, USLV

Blue Horseshoe Stocks: TWTR Options, ZAZA Earnings & More

Twitter. Inc. TWTR – Options

Part of our attention this morning will be given to TWTR, and, more specifically TWTR calls, as we’re catching the stock in the midst of rebounding off of it’s lowest price point since the end of July. The stock found support just shy of the $40-mark on Tuesday and registered higher lows and higher highs during yesterday’s session.

We’ll look to take advantage of a possible continuation of the trend using the TWTR options chain. The $42 and $43 weekly calls are going to be where we look for intraweek flip opportunities, and for a longer-term swing trade idea, we’ll track the December 12th $44 calls (Last Traded: 1.45).

If TWTR can fill the remaining gap on the chart to the $47-range before 12/12 we could be looking at a 100% increase in those calls from here, so it’s going to be something we’ll pay close attention to over the next month.


ZaZa Energy Corp. ZAZA

ZAZA has us on alert this morning as well; the stock is gapping up heavily on a post-market earnings release that included some interesting figures. The company has a conference call scheduled to begin at 10:00AM EST >>> Listen In via Yahoo! Finance


ZAZA’s Q3 Highlights

  • Total production of 54.8 MBOE, a year-over-year increase of 145%.
  • Revenues of $2.7 million, a year-over-year increase of 144%.
  • Total operating expenses declined by ~60%; G&A declined by ~30%.
  • Net income of $10.1 million vs. a net loss of $20.6 million.
  • Total debt declined by $7.7 million or ~8% over the past nine-months (3Q14 vs. CY13).

READ FULL PR >>>

We’re going to be monitoring this play for an early run-up on the untraded-upon earnings report, followed by a possible dip-and-rip scenario. We’ve sniped out rapid gains on both sides of the fence in situations just like this one, just by staying extra vigilant, so ZAZA will be another interesting play to follow as we close out the week.

Extended Watchlist:
SWET, DWA, ASTI, SAND, DNDN, BAXS (Big gap-down, radar for potential bounce)

Blue Horseshoe Stocks: MCPI, PBR & More

Med-Cannabis Pharma, Inc. MCPI

Exactly one week after we first brought it to our reports, MCPI continued to impress during yesterday’s session. The stock made an intraday move of 35% from .65-.88, and did so on nearly three times the 3-month average volume.

Calculating from our initially-observed low, the 88-cent high represented a one week overall increase of 148%, so congrats to any readers who were able to take a piece of the action.

This is going to be a play we’ll continue to track; per the timetable released in the Aug 4th PR regarding the opening of three retail marijuana stores in Washington, we should be receiving another update sometime in the next couple of weeks.

Petroleo Brasiliero S.A. (Petrobras) PBR

It’s beginning to seem as if we can peer through a crystal ball into PBR’s future with the way it seems to obey our predictions of late. Our subscribers will recall yesterday’s report  wherein we mentioned our intent to monitor the $16 Weekly Calls for the second consecutive week, and that we’d be “on the lookout for a substantial move” provided the stock could once again surpass the $16-level.

As it has so many times in recent weeks, PBR behaved exactly as we’d hoped it would, smashing through $16, and eventually reaching as high as 16.48. As a result, our contracts made a solid move from .35-.62, an intraday spike equaling 77%

Following the same strategy from last week’s successful play on the $16 Weeklies, when the stock continued to run past the 16.30’s, those who had moved their strike price and rolled into the $16.50 Calls could also have collected a nice profit, with those contracts trading in a range from .12-.32 (+166%).

Elray Resources, Inc. ELRA

ELRA appeared in yesterday’s extended watchlist after we caught it off of a routine scan toward the end of last week. The stock offered up a nice dip-and-rip scenario yesterday. After trading as low as .0072, we saw a subsequent high of .0134, for total possible intraday gains of up to 86%

Extended Watchlist:
FRF, SUPN, SAND, ARTX, CNAT