Tag: UVXY

Blue Horseshoe Stocks: GROC, GDSI Recaps & More


Great Rock Development Co. GROC

During an uncertain time where others have been reticent to pull their heads out of the sand, we continue to stand and deliver. Jumping off of the page in Friday’s report was GROC which made a few appreciable swings on the day.

Following a solid 46% initial run from the .0085 low up to .0124, the stock came down to bounce off of the .0098 mark, and returned to .0115 (+17%). That preceded one final pullback to .009 before GROC ripped back to .012 (+33%) and brought the stocks cumulative intraday gain total to 96%

We had originally alerted the stock on Wednesday morning, and witnessed a low of .0055. From that mark, we’ve seen an overall move of 125% over a span of just three sessions from GROC.

Global Digital Solutions, Inc. GDSI

Another great call for us was GDSI, which had a heck of a solid session after being mentioned in Friday’s premarket report. We outlined the fact that it had just come off of a new 52-week low and it turned into another successful bottom-play.

From its low of .0016 which it recorded shortly before the lunch hour, the stock ran with strength into the close, ending the session at its high-of-day at .0025. That move was good for intraday gains of up to 56%, so cheers to any of our readers who were able to bag a nice profit.

We’ll have an eye peeled for GDSI again this morning, as is generally the case in a session following such a strong closing performance.

UVXY and VXX Options Recap

Our main point of focus on Friday was using the activity of the overall markets to leverage ourselves some nice opportunities with Weekly VXX $22.50-25.50 Calls and UVXY $48-52.50 Calls.

It wouldn’t have mattered which symbol, or which strike price in our target ranges at which traders chose to execute, because every single contract we specified provided a chance for a windfall.

The biggest gain opportunities in each set were the VXX $24.50’s which exploded on a 900% rip from .05-.50, and the UVXY $51.50’s which traded in a range from .52-2.70 for total possible intraday gains of up to 419%

AEterna Zentaris, Inc. AEZS

It’s been a few months since we last looked at AEZS, and we’re going to place it back on watch to kick off this new trading week, as the stock made an undoubtedly strong move on Friday, and closed at its high of day. That quilifies AEZS as a possible momentum play.

These present the opportunity both to ride any residual momentum, as well as position ourselves to strike on a dip-and-rip scenario, which often show their faces in situations such as this. So we’ll keep our heads on a swivel in monitoring AEZS moving forward.

Plug Power, Inc. PLUG

PLUG is an old-time favorite of ours that has made us enormous gains in the past. It’s been awhile since we lasted touched upon this one, as we were waiting for it to provide a solid signal that it was coming off of yearly lows, and over the past few sessions we’ve begun to see that.

PLUG has registered higher highs and higher lows for the past four consecutive sessions, so we’ll be monitoring the stock this week for continued progress on that front. As you can see on the included chart snapshot below, we have a RSI just cracking above the 50-line showing relative strength, and the MACD is looking quite bullish as well. There is a slight gap to fill on the chart around the 2.00-mark, and the next key resistance we’ll look to be broken will be the 50DMA of 2.13.

Extended Watchlist:
MINE, EMBR, IHSI, GDGI

Blue Horseshoe Stocks: UVXY, VXX Options & More

No Rate Hike – SPY & VXX Options Ideas

Another eagerly-anticipated FOMC meeting came and went without an interest rate hike by the Fed yesterday, and as a result we observed a dramatic rise in volatility for the markets. We expect that turbulent activity to carry over into today, and with the added caveat of it being expiration day for weekly contracts, it could give rise to some serious options-trading opportunities.

Currently we’re seeing the VXX and UVXY gapping up in the premarket this morning. We will be on the lookout for a potential bounce in the markets followed by a fade to the downside. It would be at that point we’d look to get positioned in some Weekly VXX and UVXY Calls, specifically VXX $22.50-25.50 Calls, and the UVXY $48-52.50 Calls. Alternatively, we could take advantage of the same sort of scenario with SPY Weekly $197.50-194.50 Puts.

Part of the beauty of trading options is, if by chance the markets undergo a more sustained rebound and operate contrary to our initial gut instinct, we can simply flip those ideas to the other side of the fence (Puts where we mentioned Calls, and vice-versa) while striking in the same target ranges.

Great Rock Development Co. GROC

We also want to make mention of a stock we tagged for observation in Wednesday’s report which has made a nice intraweek move. GROC traded at a low of .0055 that morning, and followed up with a couple of solid sessions.

Yesterday. the stock managed to close at .0085, which represents a 55% session-over-session increase, and it occurred on slightly more than 3.5X the average monthly trading volume.

Global Digital Solutions, Inc. GDSI

GDSI is another subpenny play that caught our eye yesterday as it rebounded off of a new 52-week low. This stock has been steadily trending down for a protracted period, and is just about reaching the point where a more significant recovery could be in the cards.

It’s self-evident on the chart below, which shows that GDSI is heavily oversold at the present time. Add in a recent bullish cross on the MACD, and this is one we’ll want to monitor more closely in coming sessions. We’ll look for it to continue to register higher highs and higher lows off of that bottom.

Extended Watchlist:
MDBX, RDSH, GLD, CHLO

Blue Horseshoe Stocks: UVXY Recap, Options Review & More

Options Updates

ProShares Ultra VIX Short-Term Futures (UVXY) – 

In Friday’s premarket report, we essentially served up our readers an absolute gem of an options idea on a silver platter, when we identified the high potential of some prime intraday flip opportunities.

We posited that the overall markets would see a pullback, and offered our take on a good way to leverage that eventuality for quick-strike gains in weekly UVXY contracts. The markets were indeed hammered back for most of the session, and as a result, our assumptions paid off in spades.

Our specified target range included UVXY Weekly $73-78 Calls, and every last set of contracts provided us with the chance to bank multi-bag gains. Check it out:

$73 Calls  – Daily Range: 2.17-8.10 – Max Gain: 273%
$74 Calls  – Daily Range: 1.47-7.20 – Max Gain: 390%
$75 Calls  – Daily Range: 1.17-6.40 – Max Gain: 447%
$76 Calls  – Daily Range: 1.10-4.53 – Max Gain: 312%
$77 Calls  – Daily Range: 77-4.34 – Max Gain: 464%
$78 Calls  – Daily Range: .57-3.68 – Max Gain: 545%

Updated Idea:

With another reversal appearing likely with this morning’s gap-up in the markets, we’ll want to swing our attention in the opposite direction. The SPY generally trades inversely to the UXVY, thus we’ll be monitoring SPY Weekly $195-197 Calls in the event of a continued uptrend signal.

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Longer-Term Ideas – Update

For each of the past two Thursdays, we’ve mentioned our interest in a set of longer-term options ideas for a number of tech stocks, namely the 9/18-10/02  FB, GPRO, GMCR, AAPL, NFLX, and TSLA Calls.

With between 1.5-3.5 weeks until expiration on the contracts contained in that range, we’ve seen some nice moves already, and we want to continue to keep an eye on this whole group. With the volatile flux we’ve observed in recent market activity, further opportunities could certainly present themselves in coming sessions.


PharmaRoth Labs, Inc. ROTH

We noticed some exciting news hitting the wires this morning for ROTH, and the PPS is currently down to a relative bottom, so we’re going to tab this subpenny play for extended observation.