Tag: AVXL

Closing Out a Great Week with Strength

Thursday Options Recap:

We have been rolling right along on the options front this week, coming up with four sets of winning ideas in each of last three consecutive sessions. In our premarket report for Thursday morning, we provided readers with a varied set of potential targets to watch, and once again, all four yielded intraday gain opportunities. We are very proud to be able to come up with good ideas on a daily basis for our readers the vast majority of the time, and we certainly upheld that standard this week.

We were focused on the GIII 12/16 $17.50-15 Puts, the DG Weekly $245-240 Puts, the SPLK Weekly $83-85 Calls, and the SNPS Weekly $360-370 Calls. The markets as a whole experienced somewhat of a choppy session, but our items of interest produced the following intraday runs and profit chances:

GIII 12/16 $17.50-15 Puts
$17.50: 5.00-5.55 (+11%)
$15: 2.50-3.20 (+28%)
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DG Weekly $245-240 Puts
$245: 6.00-14.10 (+135%)
$242.50: 5.50-10.72 (+95%)
$240: 4.10-9.30 (+126%)
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SPLK Weekly $83-85 Calls
$83: 3.45-8.80 (+155%)
$84: 2.59-7.60 (+193%)
$85: 2.07-6.61 (+219%)
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SNPS Weekly $360-370 Calls
$360: 6.50-8.40 (+29%)
$370: 2.45-4.70 (+92%)

Fresh Options Ideas:
ZS Weekly $131 Puts
MRVL Weekly $43.50-42.50 Puts
ULTA Weekly $470-475 Calls
SMAR 12/16 $35-40 Calls

Extended Watchlist:
ASTA, PMOMF, IGEX, PRDL, PVCT, BRLL, AVXL, RIGL, SOXS, RMED, TOPS, EOSE

Blue Horseshoe Stocks: SPY Update

SPDR S&P500 ETF (SPY) – Update

Our fresh options idea to kick off the new trading week yesterday utilizing the SPY started off on a good foot. It’s something we always come back to because of the predictable way it behaves and trades.

We designated the SPY 06/19 $289-290.50 Calls as our contracts of interest, and the markets’ activity played into our hands nicely, for a start. Here were the gains that were made possible on the day yesterday:

$289 Calls – Range: 1.50-2.00 – Max Gain: 33%
$289.50 Calls – Range: 1.24-1.73 – Max Gain: 40%
$290 Calls – Range: 1.00-1.45 – Max Gain: 45%
$290.50 Calls – Range: .80-1.15 – Max Gain: 196%

The SPY is gapping up once again today, and we expect all of these calls to open deep in the money and see new highs. We’re going to continue to monitor these, but also look to roll up and include the $291 and $291.50’s in our watchlist as well.

Robert Half International, Inc. RHI

We’ve got another fresh idea based on the technical setup of the RHI chart, which has been trending up off a double bottom. We see some decent volatility potential, and a topside gap to fill on the chart. This is going to be a longer term idea, which could ultimately turn into a solid recovery play.

We are going to place the RHI 09/20 $55-65 Calls on watch for the weeks and months ahead. RHI most likely wouldn’t even have to fill that gap for us to see results. A run at the 200DMA or even 50DMA would likely produce significant gains in those contracts.

Extended Watchlist:
KOOL, AVXL, CLVS, SHIP, NMR, ABEO, TIGR, NBEV, JAGX

Blue Horseshoe Stocks: TWTR Recap & More

Twitter, Inc. TWTR

Twitter posted its quarterly figures showing the company was nearing profitability, so we took the opportunity to signal a range of options, and what followed was Twitter’s biggest bullish session since last year, and some great chances for gains in our designated contracts, the TWTR Weekly $18-19.50 Calls.

$18 Calls – Range: 1.00-2.60 – Max Gain: 160%
$18.50 Calls – Range: .64-2.02 – Max Gain: 216%
$19 Calls – Range: .38-1.65 – Max Gain: 334%
$19.50 Calls – Range: .18-1.15  – Max Gain: 539%

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Fresh Ideas:

Microsoft Corp. MSFT Weekly $82-85 Calls*

Apple Inc. AAPL Weekly $157.50-160 Calls*

*Never trade options with a weekly expiration on a Friday unless you’re an expert trader with disposable funds. It’s just about as risky as it gets.

ITUS Corp. ITUS

We’ve been tracking ITUS since September 21st, subsequent to which point we witnessed a really great move in the stock from 1.92-5.15 for gains of up to 168% over just a few sessions.

In the past few weeks ITUS has been under consolidation, but yesterday the stock came down and kissed the 50DMA before bouncing. It’s gapping up this morning in the premarket, so we’ll want to watch closely for it to hold the 200DMA of 2.19 on any pullbacks. If it can manage that, we like the chances of seeing what could be more sizable moves for the stock in coming sessions.

Extended Watchlist:
EVOK, INTC, ATEN, AVXL, THC, WWR, DXTR, KTOV,