Blue Horseshoe Stocks: Big Week for Options

Morgan Stanley MS – Recap

Earlier in the week we highlighted a pair of options calls in the Morgan Stanley chain following the company’s Q3 earnings report on Tuesday, in which it reported a solid beat of Wall Street expectations on profits.

As a result, the MS Weekly $43.50 & $44 Calls that we signaled in our report produced some very nice chances for traders to lock in multi-bag profits.

The $43.50 Calls, from their low of 1.32 reached 4.20, for an intraweek gain of 218% The $44 Calls low came in at .85, and it went on to log a high of 3.65. That worked out to an overall increase of 329%


Fresh Options Ideas

Paypal, Inc. PYPL – The first of our earnings related options ideas to close out the week is going to be Paypal, whose stock saw early gains on the heels of the company’s report which entailed a big boost from the company’s Venmo offshoot. Revenue streams have been growing as Paypal has launched several initiatives within the platform. We are going to be looking at the PYPL Weekly $81-83 Calls* as we close out the trading week.

The Procter & Gamble Co. PG – We’re also looking at PG, which reported on its earnings this morning, and posted it’s biggest growth in sales for the last half a decade. Our idea for this particular play will be the PG Weekly $82-84.50 Calls*

*Please do not attempt to trade options with a weekly expiration on a Friday unless you are an advanced level trader with disposable funds. It’s an extreme risk/reward proposition!


Extended Watchlist: 
CLF, NIHD, TTGT, JMU, YNDX, CGA, CCL

Blue Horseshoe Stocks: Bottom Play Alert, HEB & More

FBC Holdings, Inc. FBCD

We wanted send out an alert on FBCD this morning, if for no other reason than the fact that it’s been quite awhile since we found a bottom play trading near all-time lows in the super-subpenny range. We’ve definitely been known to do some bottom-fishing in our day, with some of our biggest wins coming from bargain shopping.

What we have in FBCD is a stock that has been beaten back to a record low of .0005 (reached yesterday) which catches our attention in a big way. We are going to stay vigilant as we monitor this play for a solid bottom, because a snapback to to the double-zero range is not only very possible, but also has the potential to happen quite rapidly.

With so little room to the downside, one might classify FBCD as a “lottery ticket” type of play. The action on super-subpennies have the potential to return exponential gains, which is why we’re going to give it a spot on our running watchlist.

A quick glance at the chart shows that each time an influx of volume has come into the stock, it makes a run to test its 50DMA. From present levels, a jump to the current 50DMA would mean a chance for gains of at least 66%


Hemishperx BioPharma, Inc. HEB

We were passively tracking HEB via our extended watchlist last month, and are going to keep giving it our attention as the new quarter kicks off today. The stock is gapping up to the tune of roughly 25% in the premarket.

We caught notice of HEB following the company’s announcement that it would collaborate with US Army Medical Research to develop treatments to attempt to overcome the emergence of drug resistance due to Ebola virus mutation.

With the current Ebola breakout making it a hot-button topic, and the company stating this week that it would be expanding its Ebola research, we’re going to still be keeping our ears to the ground on this one.


Spherix, Inc. SPEX

SPEX made an appearance in yesterday morning’s extended watchlist and had one heck of a solid session. The stock came out of the gate and ran from a low of .99 all the way up to 1.58, offering us the chance to bank up to 60% in profits as it traded more than 13.5X its 3-month average volume.

Disappointment over the delay of some upcoming litigation that Shperix has against VTech and Uniden (View PR) is the apparent cause of the stock’s gapping down in today’s premarket.


Extended Watchlist:
LAKE, BCRX, ANGI, RVP, NNVC, CGA

Blue Horseshoe Stocks: APPG, LULU, SCOK Updates & More

Apptigo International, Inc. APPG

We flagged APPG on August 25th after noticing that the stock was being subjected to a rapid sell-off, and was setting new 52-week lows. That period of consolidation continued over the past couple of weeks, as APPG finally found support just above .25 and began to bounce on Wednesday.

Yesterday we saw it recover nicely, briefly breaching the .40-mark before settling in to close at .38. The chart is exhibiting some signs of a premium-potential bottom play, so we’ll remain very interested in APPG provided it can hold support above .365 in order to break the pattern of its recent downtrend.


Lululemon Athletica, Inc. LULU Calls

Our options trading idea from yesterday’s newsletter was spot-on, with the dip-and-rip scenario we suggested playing itself out within the first twenty minutes of trading action. If you recall, we expected to see opportunities somewhere in the range of the $41-$43 Calls, and we weren’t disappointed.

The $42 Calls traded as low as 1.00 before ripping to a daily high of 3.38 (+238% intraday move), while the $43’s would trade up over an even more impressive span. Those saw a low of .59 and subsequent high of 3.02, making rapid gains of up to 411% a possibility.

Those were some serious opportunities, so a big cheer goes out to anyone who was able to take advantage.


SinoCoking Coal & Coke Chemical Industries, Inc. SCOK

SCOK, which has been a point of focus for us for most of this week, had another respectable day yesterday after we included in our extended watchlist. After a morning low of 5.60, the stock subsequently ran to 7.78, affording traders the chance to bag up to 39% in profits. Congratulations if you were among them!


Extended Watchlist:
S, ASTI, EFOI, OPTT, CGA