Blue Horseshoe Stocks: Options Review & More

Options Review – Yesterday’s Big Winners
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For some of our readers that may not have previously understood why we like to mix options-trading ideas in with our equities ideas, yesterday’s session served as an excellent example. All three of the stocks whose options chains we were tracking provided folks with substantial opportunities for lucrative daytrades. Here’s a breakdown:
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Ford Motor Co. (F) – On the heels of the revelation that Ford had set revenue records and beat earning expectations for Q2, we saw the chance to leverage the resultant action on the chart to our great advantage. The range of contracts that we flagged for observation was the F Weekly $14.50 and $15 Calls. As the $15’s fell just shy of being pushed into the money, the main thrust of the action was in the $14.50’s. Those contracts went big, with a surge from a low of .18 all the way up to .42; an intraday spike of 133% We’ll be on the lookout for potential dip-and-rip scenarios in Ford to create the possibility of further opportunities as the week wears on.
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Pfizer, Inc. PFE – it was also a beat on earnings that propelled our PFE ideas to substantial intraday gains. Our specific area of interest were the PFE Weekly $34.50 and $35 Calls. The $34.50’s made an impressive move from .26-.88 for total possible gains of 238% and the $35’s really performed with a monster 410% run from .10-.51!

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Baidu, Inc. BIDU – In a departure from our standard options M.O., we identified a chance to play some Puts as BIDU was taking an absolute shellacking after its own earnings missed the mark. The downfall continued throughout the session, and fueled the success of our observed contracts, which were the BIDU Weekly Puts in the $180-175 Range. The trading ranges and maximum gains on all three sets of contracts were as follows:

$180 Calls – Daily Range: 8.00-18.05 – Max Gain: 126%
$177.50 Calls – Daily Range: 5.20- 14.90 – Max Gain: 187%
$175 Calls – Daily Range: 3.88-13.10 – Max Gain: 238%

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MORE IDEAS

Cheers to any of our readers who were able to parlay those ideas into some solid intraday profits. We’ve got some fresh ideas to monitor during today’s session as well:

Twitter, Inc. TWTR Weekly $34-32 Puts

Micron Technologies, Inc. MU Weekly $19-20.50 Calls


Pazoo, Inc. PZOO

We also want to make a quick note of the PZOO news that hit wires right at market open yesterday. The storyline we’ve been continuously following with Pazoo regarding the company’s foray into the medical marijuana testing business received a significant update.

Pazoo subsidiary, Harris Lee, LLC has signed an agreement that will facilitate the takeover of an operational testing facility in Colorado, be sure to check out the PR below:

WHIPPANY, N.J., July 28, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — Pazoo, Inc. (OTCPink Symbol: PZOO) is pleased to announce that wholly-owned subsidiary Harris Lee, LLC has signed a sublicense, and loan agreement with Harris Lee Colorado, LLC (HLC). These agreements now allow HLC to meet the in state residency requirement and provide for the necessary funding to take over the testing lab, expand the marketing and employment base and begin the expansion of the operations.

All agreements will be forwarded on to the Colorado MED for review. A small redesign of the layout of the laboratory will be undertaken to increase the efficiency and functionality of the facility. Over the past 2 months the Pazoo team has made contact with numerous growers and has gotten firm commitments from these growers to test with HLC once the State review is complete. >> FULL PR


Extended Watchlist:
CLF, SZYM, GALE, SONS, DGLY, CETV

Blue Horseshoe Stocks: CDVI Recap, TINO Promotion & More

Cal Dive International, Inc. CDVI

On Tuesday, we introduced CDVI via our extended watchlist. We had been monitoring the stock after noticing it had taken a tremendous beating prior to that point. Some of our biggest gainers have come from recovery plays, and what we’ve seen from CDVI has been pleasing thus far.

Our timing in picking up on this play turned out to be on the nose, as it came from a new 52-week low of .08 on Tuesday, all the way back to .15 just prior to yesterday’s close. That represents an 87% rebound over the span of two sessions, so we’ll mark CDVI down as an excellent call on our part.

As far as how to approach it moving forward, we might want to take a listen to the Earnings Conference Call slated for 10AM EST today. The company released its Q3 financials after hours yesterday, and it will be interesting to hear the officials’ take on the results, which, at first glance, did include both positives and negatives, as well as future guidance . >>View PR

Either way, we’ve already had a major opportunity from this stock, so congrats to anyone who was able to turn a quick profit off of CDVI on its tremendous bottom-bounce.


Tamino Minerals, Inc. TINO

TINO is another one we want to mention briefly this morning, and enter it into our readers line of sight. The stock has been seeing a pickup in both volume and PPS over the past several sessions, with the effect intensifying toward the end of yesterday’s session.

It comes in advance of a large promotion occurring on the stock today. Let us be clear that we are not involved in today’s promotion on TINO, we simply wanted to pass that information along because it may be possible for us to take advantage of any surges it may produce. Should the stock begin to run, our mentality should be to snipe out quick gains before accumulation slopes off and the increase of selling pressure occurs. In these scenarios, it’s safer to shoot for rapid singles and doubles rather than holding on for a home run.


Extended Watchlist – Morning Gappers:

Gap-ups: CGG, PLNR, SFUN, PERI, RVLT, RDNT(Look for profit-taking to cause fade and subsequent bounce opportunities)

Gap-downs: AEZS, SZYM (Look for a potential bounce from over-selling)


APDN, MWIP, ONCY & Extended Watchlist

APDN had an impressive day for the second consecutive session. The stock ran up until it hit a patch of resistance at.295, right where we asserted it would come. When added to Wednesday’s gains, APDN’s performance yesterday brought our total cumulative profits to a possible 44%

The stock has maintained its strength on the chart, as we’ve seen higher highs and higher lows on rather impressive share volume, and nearly $5M in dollar volume.

The next key level that we’d like to see broken through is .2965. As we said yesterday, a break past that level could send us into Blue Sky Breakout mode.

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MWIP was added to our extended watchlist yesterday after we observed the momentum it exhibited earlier in the week.

We are no stranger to MWIP, we began following this play back on October 16th when we put out our first medical marijuana roundup report. The stock was trading as low as .0031 at the time, subsequently surging to .005 before it dipped to find support between .0024-.0029.

Yesterday the stock was as low as .0055 and ran as high as .0076, an intraday gain of 38%

The buzz surrounding medical marijuana stocks doesn’t figure to slow down anytime soon, and this play could be headed to pennyland in the near future. The next patch of resistance from here appears to come at .0125. We’d like to see the previous resistance from .0066-.007 hold as support.

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Oncolytics Biotech Inc. ONCY

ONCY was another new addition to our extended watchlist yesterday, had a heck of a day, opening at .2.70, and running as high as 3.85 before closing out the day at 3.03 (+43%).

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Two days in a row, our selections have provided us with a couple of nice opportunities for profit. As we were saying yesterday morning, you really can’t find the kind of variety of successful plays anywhere else, that we provide here on a consistent basis. Here’s wishing everyone a safe and fun weekend, best of luck to all and happy trading.

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Extended Watchlist:
AZFL, FCEL, ALXA, GSV, SZYM, SRGE,