APRN Blows its Lid & More

Blue Apron Holdings Inc. APRN

We provided readers with a set of stocks that we felt were uniquely built to weather the coronavirus storm in yesterday morning’s premarket report. APRN had already begun to rise a little bit prior to that, but yesterday’s huge session really sent it for a ride.

The stock registered as the number three top gainer on the NASDAQ for its performance, which saw it trade up from a low 8.70 and hit 19.49, which represents an intraday rise of 124%. As of this morning’s premarket trading, APRN has now hit 24.50, extending our total observed range in 24 hours to 182%

With people being urged to stay home as much as possible, and perhaps with a mandatory nationwide quarantine on the way, we would expect Blue Apron’s order volume to stay at what we can only imagine are all time highs. As far as how high the stock could run, that’s anyone’s guess, but we’ll be tracking it closely to find out.


Decision Diagnostics Corp. DECN

Certain stocks on the OTC have also been enjoying solid performances in relation to the coronavirus.  The company believes that its GenViro! COVID-19 “Rapid” Kit will be in high demand after the release of new FDA guidance allowing for near immediate distribution of kits with minimal red tape.

We had placed the stock in our extended watchlist in yesterday morning’s report, and were met with a very respectable intraday move from .118-.198, which works out to a gain of 68%


Fresh Options Ideas

GILD Weekly $79-81 Calls
WBA Weekly $52.50-54 Calls
HAL 04/03 $4-5.00 Calls 

Blue Horseshoe Stocks: CSX Review & More

CSX Corp. CSX – Options Review

We presented our readers with an options idea concerning CSX yesterday morning in the wake of the company’s solid quarterly earnings report, the CSX Weekly $65-67.50 Calls.

What followed was an exceptionally bullish session for the railroad giant, which facilitated some really nice intraday multi-bag gain opportunities.

Not surprisingly, big moves were exhibited by every single contract in our designated range of six sets:

$65 Calls– Range: 1.64-4.00 – Max Gain: 144%
$65.50 Calls – Range: 1.42-3.54 – Max Gain: 149%
$66 Calls – Range: .91-3.00 – Max Gain: 230%
$66.50 Calls
– Range: .64-2.57 – Max Gain: 301%
$67 Calls – Range: .45-2.02 – Max Gain: 349%
$67.50 Calls – Range: .28-1.65 – Max Gain: 489%


 Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc. WBA – Recap

Also included in our morning report yesterday were the WBA 08/17 $67.50 & $70 Calls, and those too enjoyed some notable intraday gains for the session.

Despite selecting calls with August expiration, the payoff to this idea was all but instantaneous, with each of our two ideas logging significant intraday runs to the upside. The $67.50’s traded in a range from .93 to 1.45, a gains of 133% while the $70’s went from .40-.65, which works out to a gain of 63%
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Fresh Ideas –  We’ll keep the options train rolling with another pair of fresh ideas this morning:

We’ll track the activity in the EBAY Weekly $36-34.50 Puts after the company fell short on Q2 revs, along with the SPDRA S&P 500 ETF (SPY) 07/23 280.50-281.50 Calls for an idea to watch into next week.


Extended Watchlist:
TCP, DM, RCON, LODE, AVEO, CEI, ACIU

Blue Horseshoe Stocks: Options Roundup & More

Options Roundup

We’re heading into another patch of earnings releases, and we’re going to make our main focus today center around the formulation of some options ideas.
We’ve got three chains targeted, two of which having just reported their quarterly earnings (CSX Corp. CSX and Morgan Stanley MS), and one with huge Form-4 buys coming this week in Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc. WBA.

As we usually do for options ideas on the heels of an earnings report, we’ll go short term for CSX and MS, and for WBA, select some with an expiration a little further out.

CSX Weekly $65-67.50 Calls
MS Weekly $49-51.50
WBA 08/17 $67.50 & 70 Calls


Extended Watchlist:
CHRS, FWW, NXTD, STRAF, FNKO