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Solid Options Plays, Fresh Ideas & More

WD-40 Company WDFC – Options Update:  

As we close out this holiday-shortened week, we’ll start off by giving an update on the options idea we put forth in yesterday morning’s premarket report. We were looking at the WDFC 07/16 $250-270 Calls on the heels of the company’s earnings drop from the day prior.

The stock itself ran to nearly $280 before tapering back and that provided some very nice intraday gain opportunities for anyone who had caught our alert. Here are the intraday trading ranges and total possible gains on those targets:

WDFC 07/16 $250-270 Calls
$250: 20.32-26.15 (+29%)
$260: 7.81-16.67 (+113%)
$270: 4.31-8.18 (+90%)
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Fresh Options Ideas:
GBX 07/16 $40 Calls
LEVI 07/16 $29-30 Calls  

Carver Bancorp Inc. CARV – Recap:

Additionally, we want to go over the performance of CARV following its inclusion in yesterday’s extended watchlist. A short-squeeze provided an excellent intraday move for a stock in this price range.

CARV ran from 16.61 to a new high of 38.87 on the day marking an upswing of 134% on volume of over 82X the 30-day moving average!

Extended Watchlist:
GALT, AGRI, TBLT, AABB, KRFG, ASTI, AMLH, HMNU, BICB, ELRA, VOIS, INTK

Blue Horseshoe Stocks: Interesting Bottom Plays

Biglari Holdings, Inc. BH

We noticed BH this morning purely on the stock’s interesting chart setup. The stock had been crushed down at the end of last month after the company announced its recapitalization plan. We’re not saying the move shouldn’t have resulted in a decline in the stock’s price, but these selloffs tend to have a snowball effect, and BH has been over-abused.

Simply take a look at the chart below and you can see what we[re talking about. The RSI has been as heavily oversold as you’re likely to see, while the stock has begun to regain some of its lost ground. The MACD is also loudly signaling the potential for a rebound, so we’ll have our eyes peeled.

International Flavors & Fragrances, Inc. IFF

Speaking of bottom play opportunities, we may have an even more interesting one here in IFF today. This stock is currently boasting a cherry of a chart as well, with all of the indicators we commonly scan for showing strong impending bullish signals. Not to mention the Form-4 filed yesterday wherein a 10% ownership insider purchased a $25M block at just a penny below yesterday’s closing price, down here at the bottom.

To help us leverage some good gains out of this one if indeed it can mount the rebound we suspect it might, we’re going to want to be tracking the IFF 06/15 $125-135 Calls.

Extended Watchlist:
VLRX. UPL, AMRS, SDR, CARV, EIGR, QTNT

CERP, SWVI & Extended Watchlist

Cereplast, Inc. CERP

After appearing on yesterday’s extended watchlist, CERP gapped up slightly at the open .0288 from the prior close of .0248. We saw a slight pullback to fill part of that gap, with the stock dipping as low as .025 first thing yesterday morning, after which it proceeded to push to a high of .0449 by early afternoon. The differential from low to high produced an opportunity for us to rake in up to 80% in profits on the day.

This stock is coming off of a dead-cat bottom, so we’d like to see it get above the 50DMA of .0552 for us to remain bullish. As you can see on the chart, indicators are starting to look strong, with the RSI coming off of being oversold and getting ready to pass through the 50-line. The PPO and the Slow STO just crossed over, and momentum is looking strong, with volume picking up over the past few days.

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Swingplane Ventures Inc. SWVI

SWVI is another stock off of our extended watchlist from yesterday- this one gapped up to .19 after a previous close at .17. We saw a slight pullback to .1843, before the stock surged as high as .295 (closed @ .2899). In all, total intraday gains of 60% were possible, on huge volume to the tune of 88M shares.

We want to be cautious here, even while there may be gains still left to be made. We’ve seen a few large promo outfits touting this stock recently, so we just need to keep aware, and scan for the impending collapse that most often follows a big promotional push. The tail-end of those pullbacks generally produce bounceplay opportunities, of which we fully intend to take advantage. It will be all about timing when this comes to pass. We’ve been spot-on in timing the actions of SWVI so far, so join us in keeping this play on your watchlist as this round of promotions runs its course.

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Side Note:

Of the remaining three stocks to appear on yesterday’s extended watchlist, two posted gains on the day: Pharma-plays PATH and KERX. It was actually the third day running that we mentioned PATH, which has made gains of 21% over just a few short days; quite a feat for a big board stock. This was on the strength of a news release outlining the company’s new treatment for acute migraines.

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Extended Watchlist:
EMWW, FARE, NEWL, XRX, BIOD, CARV, RVLT