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Blue Horseshoe Stocks: Winning TSLA Calls, VGGL Recap & More

Tesla Motors, Inc. TSLA – Options

On Friday we mentioned some longer-term options-trading ideas for TSLA Calls, and it didn’t take more than a couple trading days for them to bear fruit.

As our regular readers are aware by now, we often like to monitor an entire range of strike prices following a key development, and TSLA’s earnings release last midweek provided the fuel for our success in this case. We pointed to 05/22 $230-240 Calls, and every set of contracts in that range made a sizable run from their lows on Friday to impressive highs during yesterday’s session. Here’s a breakdown of their performances:

$230 Calls – Friday’s Low: 6.85 – Yesterday’s High: 13.50 (Closed: 10.30) – Max Gain: 97%

$232.50 Calls – Friday’s Low: 5.32 – Yesterday’s High: 11.25 (Closed: 8.65) – Max Gain: 111%

$235 Calls – Friday’s Low: 5.96 – Yesterday’s High: 10.60 (Closed: 8.70) – Max Gain: 78%

$237.50 Calls – Friday’s Low: 3.16 – Yesterday’s High: 7.60 (Closed: 5.00) – Max Gain: 140%

$240 Calls – Friday’s Low: 3.84 – Yesterday’s High: 7.50 (Closed: 5.75) – Max Gain: 95%

We are pleased with the progress we’ve seen thus far in these contracts, and we’re interested to see what the next nine trading days will bring leading up to their expiration.

Viggle, Inc. VGGL

Our next order of business this morning is to point out the solid move made by VGGL after we included the stock in yesterday morning’s extended watchlist. Catalyzed by favorable quarterly results (link below), it traded in a range from 3.00 to 4.24; a very respectable intraday move of 41%.

The spike came on roughly 25X the 3-month average volume and VGGL managed to close in the mid-3.70’s, holding the majority of its daily gains. Whenever we see a confluence of these two phenomena, we always want to keep our eyes peeled for a carryover of momentum into subsequent sessions.

52% Year-over-Year Revenue Growth and 116% Increase in Net Registered Users as Viggle Celebrates Its Three-Year Anniversary (Mon, May 11)

Plug Power, Inc. PLUG

Our longer-term subscribers might remember the epic run we tracked in PLUG when we caught the stock coming off its all-time lows near a dime back in 2013. The lowest price we observed following our initiation of coverage on this play was .135 on 02/28/13. It led us on a long and exciting journey to a high of 11.72 nearly a year later, and from then on has held a spot on our list of all-time best calls.

More recently, in 2015, PLUG has been on an overall downtrend that carried the stock to new annual low of 2.32. Yesterday, we observed PLUG coming up off of those lows and hitting a high of 2.65, so we’re going to re-radar this as a potential recovery play. If it can crack through the 50DMA of 2.66, we could be in line to see a more sustained uptrend.

We’ve illustrated the key resistance points on the following chart snapshot:

Extended Watchlist:
THLD, OCN, SPPI, INO, FRO

Blue Horseshoe Stocks: Earnings Beats & Bottom-Plays

Bottom-Bouncer Watchlist

Each of the following stocks qualifies as a bottom-bouncer, a couple of which are just coming off freshly-set annual lows. They’ll be reserved a place on our radar as the week comes to a close:

Organovo Holdings, Inc. ONVO – In recent weeks this stock has been under consolidation, and yesterday it found a new 52-week low of 3.99 before rebounding into the close in the low 4.40’s. This morning ONVO is gapping up into the 4.60’s. We’ll have our eyes on this stock, likely over the next few sessions as it attempts to recover off of its annual low.

Neuralstem, Inc. CUR – Following some ill-received news on its ALS drug currently under study yesterday, CUR absolutely fell off a cliff. It’s gapping up in the premarket, so we’re anxious to follow it today. Stocks that get blasted on knee-jerk reaction to news can often see a rapid recovery, so our interest is high in this case.

Endeavor Silver Corp. EXK – This stock is also coming off of a new 52-week low that it recorded on Wednesday. It managed to make higher highs and higher lows during yesterday’s session, and we’ll look for it to continue that trend moving forward.

Earnings Beat Watchlist – Options Ideas

The next pair of companies each had an earnings beat, and are both gapping up over 10% in premarket action this morning. What we’ll do is monitor for dip-and-rip scenarios, and take advantage of In-the-money Calls on the rebound:

El Pollo Loco Holdings, Inc. LOCO – For this one, we want to radar Weekly $25-26.50 Calls for possible day-trading opportunities.

Ulta Salon, Cosmetics & Fragrance, Inc. ULTA – Here we’ll be observing the action in Weekly $154-155.50 Calls

Extended Watchlist:
FXCM, SPPI, NSPH, WLT, NETE

Blue Horseshoe Stocks: RSH Coming Off 52-Week Lows

Radio Shack Corp. RSH

The last time RSH appeared in one of our reports was back in mid-May, and we’ve passively monitored the stock’s gradual consolidation over the few months since. On Tuesday, it registered an annual low of .55, and in each of the proceeding sessions, has maintained higher lows as the stock hints at a rebound.

Where a week ago we were looking at a steadily declining chart, we now appear to have one with several indicators turning in a favorable direction, and the price action is responding in kind.

What we want to see now, is a break of the 20DMA of .74 to really confirm that the stock is in recovery mode. We always like running across stocks coming off their 52-week lows, so we’re going to be monitoring the stock more heavily in coming sessions. The included snapshot below illustrates the indications of a ripening chart:

Med-Cannabis Pharma, Inc. MCPI

MCPI began to pull back yesterday after providing us with a good opportunity for gains this week. When all was said and done, we saw an overall increase of 55% from .355-.55, which is quite a respectable move.

In instances such as these, when profit-taking from a rapid move up creates a dip, we like to wait in the wings observing for a low point where we might collect cheap shares to ride into the next upswing.

We also want to keep an eye out for further updates on the three retail marijuana stores the company is setting up in the towns of Port Townsend, Port Hadlock, and Hood Canal, Washington.

Extended Watchlist:
JCP, MHR, VGL, DEJ, SPPI

Blue Horseshoe Stocks: EAPH, PMCM & More

Easton Pharmaceuticals, Inc. EAPH

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EAPH fared very well on Thursday following our re-alert of the stock, providing us with the chance for solid gains before we broke for the long holiday weekend. We mentioned that we liked the potential, especially if it could break its key resistance at .021.

In fact, EAPH broke through that resistance and kept on running, to a high of .031 before all was said and done. From the day’s low of .0197, that marked an intraday move good for up to 57% in quick-strike profits for nimble traders.

Take a look at the following video for chart commentary on EAPH:

Moving forward, we’ll want to see EAPH hold support at or above .021 in order to keep us interested.

Primco Management, Inc. PMCM

PMCM is another of last week’s alerts to perform well for us during Thursday’s half-session. We brought readers an update on this repeat pick on Tuesday, at which time the stock was trading at a low of .0021.

The stock made higher lows for the remainder of the short week, and touched .0031 on high volume on Thursday, which marked an intraweek move of 46%

As we begin another week, we’d like to see PMCM hold support above the 50DMA of .0021. The next key areas of resistance to watch for a break will be .0037 and .0045.

PMCM, like EAPH, is a cannabis-related play, and as we’ve been consistently reminding our readers, the sector could very well be in for a boost on the heels of the beginning of legal sales in Washington State, and already we’ve begun to see quite a bit of evidence to support that theory. By the end of the week an expected 20 or so shops will have received their recreational marijuana licenses and begun selling the plant.

Extended Watchlist:
CAMT, EVRY, SPPI, RVLT, APP, IGC

BRND, CRWE & Extended Watchlists

Premier Brands, Inc. BRND
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Yesterday morning we said that we’d need BRND to hold support above a penny to keep our interest, and it did just that and much more. As you can see on the intraday chart below, after an initial pop of 92% from .013-.025, we also saw major bounces from .0185-.027 (+46%), and .02-.025 (+25%). These were in addition to several other bounce opportunities throughout the day, and let’s not forget the nearly 800% in gains it yielded last week.

We are still waiting to hear more about the planned line of premium vodka that the company has teamed up with basketball star Dennis Rodman to market. In the meantime we intend to continue taking advantage of any further opportunities presented by this volatile stock.

Crown Equity Holdings, Inc. CRWE

Since a golden cross on the CRWE chart back in May, the stock has been performing quite well. After appearing in yesterday’s extended watchlist, it provided us with a chance to make make 20% gain intraday.

SIDE NOTES:

Solar stocks appear to be gearing up for an uptrend in what is often a cyclical trading pattern. For that reason, we’ve been keeping an ongoing watchlist of solar plays. In case you missed the previous report containing that watchlist you can find it here. In addition to that solar list, we are also adding HSOL and ASTI to our radar.

Appearing in the extended watchlist of that same solar report was Green Energy Renewable Solution, Inc. EWRL. Ever since, the chart has stair-stepped its way up, coming from a low of .0095 to hit a high of .024 yesterday. That marks a move of 153% That company will soon undergo a name and symbol change as per a recent announcement that it had merged with Cirque Energy II, LLC. The new name will be Cirque Energy, the new symbol has yet to be designated.

Extended Watchlist:
IWEB, CLNO (Finding support off its 50dma), BONE, SPPI,