Blue Horseshoe Stocks: SPY Options Recap & More

SPY Options Update

We were so spot-on with our options alert on the SPY in yesterday’s premarket report, that we feel it necessary to quote our alert verbatim. We stated: “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.”

We certainly hope a good number of our readers were able to catch that, as every single one of the contract sets in our targeted range could have facilitated sizable gains on the session. Here’s a breakdown of the possibilities:

$195 Calls – Daily Range: 2.05-3.50 – Max Gain: 71%
$195.50 Calls – Daily Range: 1.75-3.15 – Max Gain: 80%
$196 Calls – Daily Range: 1.48-2.80 – Max Gain: 89%
$196.50 Calls – Daily Range: 1.25-2.45 – Max Gain: 96%
$197 Calls – Daily Range: 1.01-2.15 – Max Gain: 113%

In order to take advantage of the SPY moving forward, we’ll need to see a continued boost in stocks. In that event, we may look to roll our strike prices closer to the money, namely the Weekly $198-200.50 Calls.

Apple to Announce iPhone 6S Plus – Options Idea

With Apple officially announcing the release of the iPhone 7 today, which is slated to go on sale at the end of next week, we’re going to want to stay ready for the possibility of an options play to one side or the other. We’ll need to guage public reaction to the new phone; an underwhelming product could result in a PPS decline for AAPL, in which case we’d be monitoring Weekly $112-50-114.50 Puts. In the event of a mainly positive reaction, of course, we’d flip that idea to the Call-side in the same strike price range.

Akebia Therapeutics, Inc. AKBA

AKBA is undergoing a mega gap-up in premarket trading today, largely due to yesterday’s after-hours report of positive Phase II study results. We’ll look to possibly take advantage of the situation; with such a rapid move up, it leaves AKBA open to a dip-and-rip pattern on the chart when sellers come out of the woodwork to take profits off of the table.

We’ve pointed out the previous swing highs as levels at which AKBA will need to maintain support on the dip, in order for us to remain interested:

Akebia Announces Positive Top-Line Results from its Phase 2 Study of Vadadustat in Dialysis Patients with Anemia Related to Chronic Kidney Disease (Tue, Sep 8)

Extended Watchlist:
UAPC, CCTC, TPIV, ASTI

Blue Horseshoe Stocks: Fresh News from PZOO

Pazoo, Inc. PZOO

We just wanted to post a quick reminder for our readers to check out the new PR coming out of the PZOO camp this morning. We’ve been following this company’s foray into the legal cannabis market since April, and this is one of the more exciting releases we’ve seen thus far!It has far-reaching ramification for the marijuana growing industry, as well as any commercial property owners.

Pazoo Wholly-Owned Subsidiary, CannabisKing Distribution, Adds A Revolutionary One-Of-A-Kind Patented Water Conservation Product

WHIPPANY, N.J., Sept. 9, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — Pazoo, Inc. (OTC: PZOO), is pleased to report that 100% wholly owned subsidiary CannabisKing Distribution, LLC, has added another product offering. This product is a one-of-a-kind patented water conservation product, which guarantees at least a 10%, to as much as a 30%, savings in commercial property owner’s water bill. There is also the benefit of significant conservation of water as well. Pazoo calls this product “The Green Valve.”

There is proof of concept as this product has been installed into more than 1,000 accounts already, and has proven to work as advertised. The product is not for single family residential use. Instead, this product is designed for office buildings, apartment complexes, Universities, irrigation centers, grow facilities and similar high consumption water users. It provides measurable savings on a product that is maintenance free, and basically invisible once installed. Pazoo became a distributor of this product just this week and already has garnered the interest from numerous potential accounts.

This product is so well received because it is proven with actual results. Some facility owners have experienced a return on investment in as low as four months. The savings are dramatic even if only a 10% savings is achieved. For example a building with a $500,000 per year water bill will achieve a minimum of a $50,000 per year savings. Some facilities Pazoo is talking with have water bills in the $2 to $5 million dollar range per year. This product is ideal for all marijuana grow facilities, especially in the western United States where drought conditions are persistent as this product also conserves water.

David Cunic, CEO of Pazoo, states, “This Green Valve is an absolutely amazing product that we feel very strongly about. There is not a single grow facility that should not have this installed. Frankly, there is not a single business that has a water bill of $50,000 or more per year that should not have this installed as this savings goes straight to a company’s bottom line. In fact, we welcome anyone seeing this press release that has a water bill or knows someone with a water bill of $50,000 or more a year to call us at 973-884-0136. We expect to close on our first accounts for this state-of-the-art product very soon.”

Testimonials:

“We are reducing our line item for water and sewer charges by $50,000 (from $240,000 to $ 190,000), based upon savings realized over past 2 years after installation of your product.”
– Bob P., GM Grand Central at Kennedy

“We have purchased and installed 12 valves in our apartment properties over past 6 months. Savings have ranged from 11% to 23%.”
– Greg C.T.R.C. Management Co.

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.

PharmaRoth Labs Receives Large Purchase Order (Tue 8:30AM EDT)

Blue Horseshoe Stocks: VTLC Review, Options Ideas & More

Voltari Corp. VLTC

VLTC is a stock we’ve been tracking since early this spring. The increased stake of billionaire activist investor Carl Icahn caused a frenzy at that time and led to the stock being one of our more successful calls to date in 2015.

Since the last time we were talking about it, VLTC has been under a general consolidation and caused us to turn our attention back with a momentous session yesterday. The stock produced a nice intraday run from a low of 6.24, and cracked through its 50DMA at 7.06 en route to a 8.33 high.

We’ll look for VLTC to maintain support at or above that 50DMA in order to retain our immediate interest, but for the long -term, we’re interested to see how the company’s recently announced shift in focus from mobile marketing to commercial real estate development will affect the stock in the future.

Diodes, Inc. DIOD

We’re seeing an interesting set of events unfold with DIOD, as it has been announced that the company will be acquiring another publicly-traded entity, (Pericom Semiconductor Corp. PSEM) in a transaction that will reportedly result in immediate accretion of PSEM’s added value to DIOD’s earnings per share.

It raises an interesting situation with a stock that is now coming off of a recent relative low, and as a result we’re going to formulate an extended-term options idea with the DIOD 10/16 $20 Calls.

We’ll want to see DIOD hold above 21.69 (50DMA), and test key resistance around $23. If it can manage to do so, those contracts should present us with the opportunity to reap tidy profits.

Potential Options Idea:

Today’s jobs numbers could render the Fed more likely to raise interest rates sooner than expected, which would put some fear into the markets and cause another dip. This morning’s premarket activity seems to suggest that’s what’s happening. In which case, we’ll want to be standing at the ready with a corresponding options idea.

If things unfold as expected we could see some big opportunities for quick-strike intraday gains in the UVXY Weekly $73-78 Calls.

Blue Horseshoe Stocks: ASTI Recap, Options Reminder & More

Trevena, Inc. TRVN

Of all of the plays that we were monitoring via our extended watchlist in yesterday’s premarket report, the most potent intraday performance came from TRVN. The stock had made a nice move in the previous session, had pulled back, and looked primed for another nice move based on the premarket activity we observed.

As the overall markets saw a trend reversal, TRVN made a solid, steady, run from a daily low of 9.21 up to 11.47; that registered as a 25% increase on more than 12X the 3-month average volume.

The stock is increasing further in the premarket today (traded as high as 11.83 thus far), so we might want to look out for the possibility of a slight dip followed by a continuation of yesterday’s momentum.

Ascent Solar Technologies, Inc. ASTI

ASTI is a stock we’re very familiar with, as a quick tag search of our archives reveals, we’ve taken advantage of this stock multiple times over the years. A couple of weeks ago, we tagged the stock as a bottom-watch play after noticing it was being beaten back to new 52-week lows.

We stated that ASTI was a prime candidate for a bounceplay, and an extreme item of interest “because when a rebound does occur, it could be very significant.” and we couldn’t have been more spot-on in that assumption.

It’s ultimate low of .10 came just three sessions hence, and the impressive multi-day recovery pushed ASTI as high as .3597 yesterday. That represents an overall swing of 260%

Options Reminder:

Last Thursday just as the markets were becoming highly distressed, we formulated set of longer-term options plays to watch once a market rebound began to occur.

Yesterday, another reversal came to pass, so we just wanted to issue a brief reminder of the potential targets we listed, and are still tracking heavily: 09/18-10/02 Calls in the FB, GPRO, GMCR, AAPL, NFLX, and TSLA chains.

Extended Watchlist:
AXPW & VRA (Nice Moves Yesterday, Still on Watch),
MEI, GBSN, GEVO