Blue Horseshoe Stocks: Winning Options Calls & More

Yesterday’s Winning Options Ideas

We signaled our interest in a range of contracts from three separate options chains yesterday morning, and unsurprisingly, the potential for quick-strike single-session gains was present in all three.

Apple, Inc. AAPL – Our AAPL idea was definitely the most solid of the day, with our highlighted Weekly $98-99 Calls each making an appreciable intraday spike:

$98 Calls – Trading Range: .78-1.92 – Max Gain: 146%
$98.50 Calls – Trading Range: .55-1.51 – Max Gain: 175%
$99 Calls– Trading Range: .36-1.15 – Max Gain: 219%

The extended-term play we targeted also made a big move. The AAPL 07/17 $101 Calls traded in a range from .79-1.37, for a nice 73% rip. We’ll want to continue tracking this set of contracts in sessions to come, with plenty of time before their expiration.

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SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (SPY) – Next up were the SPY Weekly $208-210 Calls, which we were pretty sure would produce some decent action based purely on the overall market sentiment we were observing leading up to our submission of the idea. Our assumption proved to be spot-on, and we observed some excellent moves during the session:

$208 Calls – Trading Range: 1.13-1.97 – Max Gain: 74%
$208.50 Calls – Trading Range: .81-1.56 – Max Gain: 93%
$209 Calls– Trading Range: .55-1.19 – Max Gain: 116%
$209.50 Calls– Trading Range: .33-.86 – Max Gain: 161%
$210 Calls– Trading Range: .20-.60 – Max Gain: 200%

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Computer Sciences Corp. CSC – As a bonus idea we called attention to the CSC 06/17 $44-48 Calls and while a couple of the contracts contained in that range failed to trade any notable volume, respectable gains were still there for the taking in the other three:

$45 Calls– Trading Range: 3.20-5.05 – Max Gain: 58%
$47 Calls– Trading Range: 1.65-2.75 – Max Gain: 66%
$48 Calls– Trading Range: 1.25-3.48 – Max Gain: 178%

This is why we love options trading. Out of thirteen sets of contracts we slated for tracking, having eleven produce the opportunity for big gains, and seven of those produce chances at gains of more than 100% is a perfect illustration of why we have not focused solely upon stocks for years now.

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More Fresh Options Ideas: We’d like to follow up that recap with some new interests this morning, each with untraded-upon earnings beats to consider. We will be following the activity in Williams & Sonoma WSM Weekly $53-55 Calls as well as Dollar Tree, Inc DLTR Weekly $83-86 Calls.


Extended Watchlist:
ATLS, LOTE, SHLD, SYNC, ASX, RIXG, X

Blue Horseshoe Stocks: Bottom-Watchlist, Options & More

Fresh Bottom-Watchlist

Our morning scan yielded up a couple of stocks trading at or near their relative bottoms that we want to put on the radar this midweek.

Canadian Solar, Inc. CSIQ

CSIQ began showing some life yesterday after it briefly touched its lowest PPS since last summer and began to rebound into the close. This morning, a Q1 earnings beat is fueling a gap-up into the $17-range. We’ll be on the lookout for quick-strike options trades with the CSIQ Weekly $16.50-18 Calls. Especially if a dip-and-rip occurs at the outset, we could really see some significant intraday swings out of contracts in that range.

Sequenom, Inc. SQNM

SQNM is interesting as a bottom-watcher on a couple of different levels. Not only is it extremely low-priced for a NASDAQ play at just over the exchange minimum PPS of a dollar, but it has also seen an influx of insider buying this week. We’ll have to stay wary as chart indicators suggest the stock may yet need to search out its ultimate bottom, but we’ll be ready for a rebound at any time in coming sessions. It could come quickly in this case, so keep your eyes peeled.


Macy’s Inc. M – Options Idea

We’ve also got our eyes on Macy’s this morning, which has been on a fairly continuous downslide for the better part of three weeks, and is getting kicked hard again in premarket trading this morning.

The company tempered its guidance for the remainder of the year, and missed estimates on sales considerably in this morning’s earning call. We’re going to look to turn the bearish sentiment surrounding the stock at the into a possible boon for ourselves. To do this we’ll look to the M Weekly $36-34 Puts for possible daytrades and/or swing trades into week’s end.


Extended Watchlist:
APRE, ENGA, GEQU, SYNC, ESI, ASM, ACLS(Insider Buying)

LLTI, AAPL Options & Extended Watchlist

LaserLock Technologies Inc. LLTI

LLTI appeared in Monday’s report, as we pointed out that the company had submitted a Form 4 Showing Insider Buying. At the time, the stock was trading as low as .19. Both on Tuesday, and yesterday, the stock closed at its high of day.

On Monday it broke above the 50DMA of .198, and continued on through .249 which was a previous swing high from back in March. We’d like to see the stock hold in that range as a future level of support.

At yesterday’s close of .258 we were looking at gains of up to 36% in just two sessions.

We are well aware of LLTI’s ability to make monstrous moves over relatively short periods. Earlier this year, the stock saw a run from as low as .025 in January, to .50 by February. If it can gain a head of steam, and retest those previous highs, we could see up to another 100% in gains.

As you can see on the chart below, LLTI has been gaining quite a bit of momentum, and we feel there is a fair chance that it will continue. We have an RSI that just cracked into the powerzone. We have a stairstepper of an uptrend currently in progress, and volume has been picking up. The PPO is turned sharply upward, and is diverging, as the bars on the histogram are building up to the bullish side.

LaserLock Technologies, Inc. creates proven innovative security technologies that protect industries, governments, and individuals from the rising threat of counterfeiting and fraud. Whether covert or overt, LaserLock’s solutions are secure, trustworthy, and cost effective and have been protecting businesses and their customers worldwide for more than a decade.

More Info @ http://www.laserlocktech.com/index.html


Apple, Inc. AAPL (Options Trading)

Our timing in pointing out AAPL on Monday couldn’t have been any better. The Street really took a liking to Apple’s iBond Offering, with more than 3X the available amount being requested, as you can read below from a PR released this morning. As this is happening, we are still looking at AAPL Calls, and must now move our strike price closer to the money. We want to monitor the $445, $450, and possibly even the $455 Calls.

Most of you will remember the $415 and $420 Calls that we touted on Monday, turning into multi-baggers. We saw 300-500% moves out of both of them in just two days.

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01, 2013 (Los Angeles Times – McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) — First came the frenzy for iPhones and iPads. Now there’s a scramble for iBonds.

Apple Inc. sold $17 billion in bonds Tuesday, a gargantuan deal that ranked as the largest in global corporate history. And even though the securities are paying microscopically low interest, investors tripped over themselves to buy in.

In the financial equivalent of a line stretching around the block, investors reportedly submitted more than $50 billion in requests, or more than three times the amount available.

The demand stunned Wall Street, where fixed-income offerings are typically staid affairs generating far less hype than Facebook-type stock deals. But after a decade in which investors were bloodied by free falls in the housing and stock markets, the public is desperate for any investments viewed as safe.


Extended Watchlist:
DHSM, VHGI, TTNP, IQNT, MSPD, SYNC