Blue Horseshoe Stocks: Options Recap, Cannabis Play & More

SPDR S&P 500 ETF (SPY) – Options Recap

Despite market-wide turmoil over Britain’s “Brexit” vote, we saw fit to target a range of SPY options for observation in Friday morning’s premarket report. Our highlighted contracts were the SPY Weekly $200-205 Calls and with the exception of the lower denominations, which were were too far into the money to see any solid gain opportunities, they worked out quite well.

Some intraday volatility was the primary element which allowed quick-fingered traders to reap instant rewards from all but two of the contracts in the $205-202 Put-range. The potential gains were as follows:

$205 Puts – Trading Range:  .77-2.43 – Max Gain: 215%
$204 Puts* – Trading Range: 1.20-3.05 – Max Gain: 154%
$203.50 Puts* – Trading Range: 1.55-3.15 – Max Gain: 103%
$203 Puts* – Trading Range: 1.82-3.86 – Max Gain: 112%
$202 Puts – Trading Range: 2.87-4.88 – Max Gain: 70%

*Contracts labeled with an asterisk also saw a late day run of OVER 200% EACH, in addition to the initial moves listed above!


New Columbia Resources, Inc. NEWC

Today we’re circling back around to a play we have tracked in the past. Things have been mostly quiet for NEWC this year, with the exception of a massive run from the .007-range up as a high as a nickel. Since that time, leading up to last week, the stock had been under consistent consolidation. Tuesday, it began to experience a bounce that once again has our interest focused upon this cannabis-related play.

Due to the apparent impending end of over five decades of internal hostilities in Columbia, the company has commented on a bolstered outlook for its projects (both cannabis and mining) in the South American nation. Should the resolution be ratified in an upcoming referendum, it could mean good things for the future of NEWC, and accordingly, its stock.


Extended Watchlist:
XTRN, PXYN, SKUL, PTX, XGTI, ATRS, OCN

Blue Horseshoe Stocks: FLST Update & New Bottom Play

Fuelstream, Inc. FLST

After we caught FLST and put it on watch as a bottom play yesterday, the stock offered up a chance at modest gains on an 29% intraday swing that took it from .0045 to .0058.

FLST managed to make higher highs and higher lows on Thursday, a good sign that it could be on its way to a more significant move. Should it achieve the same feat today, it could end up being a play that follow into next week.

Remember, we indicated the tight share structure on FLST yesterday, meaning that a relatively small amount of buying pressure could lead to a substantial increase.

The company also launched a new website yesterday. You can obtain more information there at www.thefuelstream.com.


Imperva, Inc. IMPV

We’ve got a new interest to bring forth this morning as well suggested to us by one of our faithful readers (Thanks for your input, D.J.!) The IMPV chart, which is coming off of its 52-week low, could be getting in in position to become a good recovery play. We’ve taken advantage of stocks coming off of annual lows several times in the past, so many of you know just how plentiful the chances for gains can be.

In the case of IMPV, as you can see on the chart we’ve included here, there are several aspects that would seem to indicate that a serious bounce could be in the making. The RSI is in heavily oversold territory, and in addition to a MACD that is just itching to make a bullish cross, there is a huge gap on the chart, the filling of which would lead to serious gains.

In addition to the possibility of using a rebound to profit on a big-board stock, we also like to explore the possibilities offered by the options chain. Presently we are looking at the Jun 21 and Sep 20 $30 Calls. The June’s closed at .60, and the September’s closed at 1.75 yesterday. Stay tuned, as we’re likely to be tracking this new play for quite some time.


Extended Watchlist:
BTCS, RXII, CYTR, EQU, SKUL, KCG

Blue Horseshoe Stocks: CBGI Update, Form-4 Scan & More


Cannabusiness Group, Inc. CBGI

After adding CBGI to our radar on Monday, (At a low of .0321), and putting the stock on high alert yesterday, we’ve managed to do very well with this new player in the medical marijuana game. If you recall, yesterday, we sounded the alarm on CBGI in our pre-market report, putting it on “high alert” after receiving news that the company had acquired a plot of land in California to commence its plans for a licensed cannabis grow operation. In addition, we pointed out the Golden Cross that was forming on the chart as another reason why CBGI was in a prime position to blow its top.

That’s exactly what took place, as the stock opened at .045, dipped briefly to .041, and the it was off to the races. We saw CBGI run 217% to .13, which also marked an overall gain of 305% from Monday’s low. Following that initial rip, the stock would pull back and bounce several times for added intraday opportunities, and landed us at the top of the Penny Stock Rumble:

Congratulations to anyone who was able to take advantage of the chance for quick-strike profits!

CBGI ended the day at .076 up over 120% from its previous close, and we’d like to see support hold in the .06-.07 range in order for this play to retain our interest. We are still on the cusp of seeing that Golden Cross, so we’ll be keeping an eye on CBGI through to next week, when it looks like that might occur.


Extended Watchlist Winners:

Pixelworks, Inc. PXLW

We’ve got to take a minute to applaud ourselves for another of yesterday’s selections. PXLW appeared in our Extended Watchlist and went on to have a beast of a day. The stock shot up from 6.31 to 9.05, a solid 43% increase, and did so on more than 30x  its 3-month average volume.

Fanny & Freddie (FNMA & FMCC)

Also making several appearances in our recent reports, we like the gains we’ve seen from this mortgage-lending pair. Both stocks have recently come from the $3.00-range and are now trading well over $5.00.


Form-4 Scan

Our regulars know that we periodically like to conduct Form-4 (Insider Trading) Scans, and have gleaned some big winners by doing so in the past (e.g. CETV made a 147% move for us). As a result of the one we ran this morning, we have a couple of stocks we’d like to throw into the mix:

Biodel, Inc. BIOD

BIOD popped up after several company officers filed their form-4’s which denote an exercise price of 3.37 (Currently trading in the mid-3.40’s), so we’ll be placing this one on our radar for sure. For our readers who may not be as well-versed, let us explain the significance. While Form-4’s reflecting the acquisition of shares by insiders shouldn’t be taken as a definite sign of something big brewing behind the scenes, it does suggest a certain in-house confidence in the stability of a stock that we like to see. It never hurts to put a stock on watch just in case there is something bigger going on.

Career Education Corp. CECO

The other one we spotted on this scan was CECO. A good number of Form-4’s have been submitted over the course of this week, so we’ll be throwing this one up on our radar sceens as well.


Side Note:

MLCG and MDCN are a couple of longer-term marijuana stocks that we think folks should have on their watchlists.


Extended Watchlist:
BMSN, FCEL, SKUL, NWBO, HART, CCRN, PLUG BSPM,