Tag: SNTA

Blue Horseshoe Stocks: SNTA Recap, Options & More

Synta Pharmaceuticals Corp. SNTA

After catching a PR containing some big merger news for SNTA yesterday morning, we decided to include the stock in our premarket report, and it turned out to be a good decision.

On just under 12X the 3-month average trading volume, SNTA ran from a daily low of .32 up to .45 inside of the first 90 minutes of the session. That registered as a respectable intraday spike of 41% As measured to this morning’s premarket high of .488, that figure is extended to 53%

We’ll have our eyes peeled for another push this morning. The type of volume that we witnessed yesterday coupled with the stock holding more than 50% of its daily gains, puts SNTA into the category of a possible momentum play.

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Bonus Pharma Watchlist:

We are also going to be monitoring the activity in a couple of other pharma stocks in coming sessions:  Aoxing Pharmaceutical Co., Inc. AXN and Eleven Biotherapeutics, Inc. EBIO

EBIO is reportedly another reverse-merger candidate that caught a wave of momentum on the heels of yesterday’s big news, and AXN is showing a double-bottom signal and has been making headway trading up off of its lows for the past few sessions. We’ll want to monitor both of these plays into next week.

SPDR S&P 500 ETF (SPY) – Fresh Options Idea

It wouldn’t be a typical Friday without a end-of-week options idea, so we’re going to turn to one of our classic targets- the SPY. Here in the premarket we’ve observed a low of 207.58. How we’ll want to play it is this: Should the SPY maintain support at 207.50 or above on any early pullbacks, we’re going to be interested in the Weekly $207.50-208 Calls. In the event it fails to hold support a that point, we’ll look to the Weekly $208-207.50 Puts.

*CAUTION: Trading weekly options on Friday is commonly a very high risk proposition. To be attempted by advanced traders only!

Extended Watchlist:
SUNE, LNCO, LINE, VSLR, EBIX, DRWI, AXPW(Bottom-Watcher)

Blue Horseshoe Stocks: PBR Options Recap & More

Petroleo Brasiliero SA (Petrobras) PBR – Options Recap

We seem to have an uncanny knack for using the PBR options chain to our advantage, having done that so many times over the past few years that we’ve actually lost count.

Yesterday was no different, as we signaled interest in a pair of contracts that both ended up making appreciable intraday moves. Our highlighted plays were the PBR Weekly $6 $ 6.50 Calls. The 6’s traded in a range from .21-.35 for a gain of 66%, while the 6.50’s ran 49% from .53-.79. Should PBR continue along the bullish path we could see these figures extended even higher.

We also noted an exceedingly large amount of open interest (volume) in the contracts one increment up the chain, so we’ll also be watching the PBR Weekly $7’s for today, and most likely tomorrow as well.

3D Systems Corp. DDD

We began tracking DDD on February 2nd, and despite the Groundhog’s prediction being wildly inaccurate, ours was absolutely spot-on!  We witnessed a low of 7.40 in the stock that morning and have not seen it head lower since. As you can see on the beauty of a chart, it has been virtually one continuous uptrend over the past couple of months.

As of this morning’s premarket high of $18, we’ve witnessed a 143% upswing over the time that we’ve been monitoring the stock. Recent bullish patterns that we’ve highlighted on the chart below seem to indicate the possibility of even more gains from here, so we’ll want to watch closely.

The latest surge of momentum has been helped along by a PR released on Tuesday:


SunEdison, Inc. SUNE

SUNE was a stock that we began monitoring for a bottom several weeks back, however, at the time it appeared that a rebound could be a long way off. We drew our readers attention back to the stock exactly a week ago, and after some more sideways trading, this morning we’re finally catching the break we were looking for.

The investigation which has arguably held the stock back for quite some time, yielded no findings of fraudulent activity, as can be referred to in the following piece >> Read Article @ USA Today

In the premarket we’ve seen the stock gap up more than 50% which means we should be on the lookout for the possibility of a dip-and-rip to start things off today.

Extended Watchlist:
MKAU, SNTA, CTIC, PLCM, GOGL,

Blue Horseshoe Stocks: Updates on PIHN, MLCG

Polaris International Holdings, Inc. PIHN

We really couldn’t have been more spot-on in our pre-market assessment of PIHN yesterday. The stock behaved precisely as we suggested it might; running hard in the morning, followed by a pullback as profit-takers exited, and a subsequent bounce.

We saw PIHN run from its morning low of .0178, up to .0248, a 39% rip. It pulled back to bounce off of support at .015 and then hit .02, for another gain opportunity of up to 33%, bringing max gains on the day to more than 70%

Moving forward, we’d like to see PIHN hold support at .015 in order for us to remain interested. It will be interesting to see how another PR out this morning will factor into the equation:

DALLAS, TX, Mar 20, 2014 (eTeligis.com via COMTEX) Polaris International Holdings, Inc. (OTC Pink: PIHN) (PINKSHEETS: PIHN) is pleased to announce that it has completed an important agreement with GBISS, Inc. and its India based affiliates to begin project management and manufacturing of the Company’s exclusive Procannas(R) Cannatrol pharmaceutical grade core ingredients and sub-formulations. >> FULL PR

ML Captial Group, Inc. MLCG

We first mentioned MLCG on March 5th, and would shortly thereafter witness a low of .04. Since trading at that level, the stock has provided us with sizable chances for profit.

After calling out MLCG once again on Tuesday, we saw an intraday move of 36% as the stock traded in a range from .0544-.074.

It then followed up its appearance in yesterday’s report with quite a session as well, going on a 53% romp from .0653 to .0999. That high also represented an overall increase of 150% from the four-cent low we observed just six sessions ago.

MLCG will remain on our watchlist on the heels of yet another PR update released this morning, announcing that the company has found the first distributor for their SuperStar brand cannabis-vaporizing “pens”:

FOUNTAIN HILLS, AZ–(Marketwired – Mar 20, 2014) – ML Capital Group, Inc. (OTCQB: MLCG)  announces its continued development, growth and expansion in the medical marijuana industry and the commercialization of its SuperStar Vapor Pen products.

ML Capital Group, Inc. (“MLCG” or the “Company”) recently announced the upcoming publication of its SuperStar MMJ Recipes book, as well as integrating access to the book through its SuperStar MMJ Dispensaries smartphone application, both of which are expected to be launched in April 2014.

Today, the Company is excited to announce that it has signed its first major distributor to market and sell the SuperStar Vapor Pen. >> FULL PR

Extended Watchlist:
ISR, BGMD, SNTA, MNGA, BONE, SVA