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Blue Horseshoe Stocks: LLY Options Recap & More

Eli Lilly and Co. LLY – Options Update

In our premarket report on Friday morning, we finished off with a set of fresh options ideas for the LLY chain, and were met with nice gain opportunities on the day on all accounts.

In addition to a daytrading idea with the LLY Weekly $72 and $72.50 Calls, which worked out in spades, we also got some really good initial movement out of the longer term target we put forth, the 01/20 $75 Calls.

Weekly $72 Calls – Range: .20-1.25 – Max Gain: 475%
Weekly $72.50 Calls – Range: .15-.80 – Max Gain: 433%
1/20 $75 Calls – Range: .77-1.39 – Max Gain: 81%

We offer congratulations to anyone who benefited from the short-term ideas, and we’ll be sure to stay on the trail of those 01/20 $75 Calls in the weeks ahead.

Globalstar, Inc. GSAT

We caught a glimpse of GSAT on our scanner this morning and feel it’s worthy of mentioning, based on a number of factors. Last week, the moves that the stock had been making off of its recent relative lows in the low .70-range began to increase.

On Thursday, the stock bullishly breached its 50DMA, culminating in a huge spike in volume on Friday. Roughly six times the monthly average trading volume accompanied a break of the dollar mark. We’re going to put this on watch as a possible momentum play.

AmpliPhi BioSciences, Inc. APHB

Speaking of bottom-bouncers, APHB cropped on our scan as well, and it has a look of high potential as it’s coming up off of its recently established annual lows.

In addition, there’s a gap to fill on the chart to the upside, and with the stock already trading up in the premarket, that’s a real possibility here. With such a ripe chart, we’ll be very interested to follow APHB’s activity out of the gate this morning.

Extended Watchlist:
NHMD, ECPN, EVOK, APTO, ANY(Bottom Play)

Blue Horseshoe Stocks: Updates, Options Review & More

El Capitan Precious Metals, Inc. ECPN

After observing a low of .1222 in ECPN subsequent to our alert on Wednesday, the stock has done nothing but show steady increases each day since.

Yesterday’s session brought an intraday move of 42% as the stock ran from .193-.275. That new high represents an overall increase of 125% in the four sessions since we began tracking.

Yesterday we stated that ECPN was receiving a rare 100% ‘Buy’ Rating at BARCHART.COM and that remains true this morning.

JC Penney Co. Inc. JCP – Options Update

Our options trading idea from Friday, the JCP 08/19 $9.50-10.50 Calls ended up having another great session for us to start the week yesterday. We mentioned that we’d be on the lookout for those plays to continue the momentum from Friday, when they afforded us gains ranging from 164-640%

It was a good thing that we did, because the three sets of contracts went on to not only make nice intraday moves, but a couple of them also extended our overall observed gains from the previous session by a significant margin.

$9.50 Calls – Range: 1.11-1.76 – Intraday: 59% – Two-Day: 300%
$10 Calls – Range: .63-1.31 – Intraday: 108% – Two-Day: 719%
$10.50 Calls – Range: .30-.83 – Intraday: 177%

MarilynJean Interactive, Inc. MJMI

We’ve been tracking MJMI since early this month, and the stock has performed quite well, mostly experiencing upward momentum during that time.

Our observed low on the play came in at .091 back on the 5th, and as of yesterday’s new high of .30 we had borne witness to an increase of 230%

Innovativ Media Group, Inc. INMG

INMG came off of yesterday’s watchlist, and the stock made a nice move on the day. From a low of .00475, it reached as high as .007 for a solid 47% jump, which occurred on roughly six and a half times the monthly average volume.

Extended Watchlist:
PEFF, NNLX, ELED, FPVD, BTGI, SFOR

Blue Horseshoe Stocks: JCP Options Recap & More

JC Penney Co. Inc. JCP – Options Update

On Friday morning, we offered up a fresh options trading idea for JCP to track in the wake of an earnings beat for the retailer. The specific targets we selected were the JCP 08/19 $9.50-10.50 Calls and after the excellent intraday move from JCP itself (9.70-10.72) each of those sets of contracts yielded the chance at some big-time single-session gains.

The total possible profits for on the day for each were as follows:

$9.50 Calls – Range: .44-1.16 – Max Gain: 164%
$10 Calls – Range: .16-.79 – Max Gain: 394%
$10.50 Calls – Range: 1.23-2.61 – Max Gain: 640%

With the expiration on these contracts set for Friday, we’ll have the remainder of the week to continue observing these plays if the activity in JCP stock allows.

El Capitan Precious Metals, Inc. ECPN

We also want to provide an update on the performance of another idea we submitted to our readers last week,. We tagged ECPN for observation in Wednesday morning’s premarket report, and the stock spent the next three sessions trending up.

The low we witnessed on Wednesday came in at .1222 and that eventually gave rise to a new high of .1989 on Friday afternoon, marking a solid three-day swing of 63% It also managed to close quite near its high-of-day, so we’ll be interested to continue following its progress as we kick off a new trading week.

It’s also worth it to mention that at present, ECPN is receiving a rare 100% ‘Buy’ Rating across the board for short, medium, and long term over at BARCHART.COM.

Extended Watchlist:
EPSC, INMG, ORIG, GOGO, TNXP

Blue Horseshoe Stocks: Options, Bottom-Plays & More

MarilynJean Interactive, Inc. MJMI

We want to circle back around to a play we tagged for observation last week. MJMI has been making a good deal of progress, showing upward momentum over the past couple of sessions.

Subsequent to our mention of the stock we took note of a .091 low (Friday), and after a couple days on the upswing, MJMI reached a high of .216 yesterday afternoon. It represents a three session-swing amounting to 137%

We’ll want to see the stock maintain support at or above the 50DMA at .16 on any pullbacks in order to remain interested.

Potential Momentum Plays

Each of the following stocks represents the possibility for continued momentum coming into this morning’s sessions. Both closed just a shade under their respective highs-of-day, and will be placed on watch as we cruise through midweek.

CollabRx, Inc. RNVA – We’re no strangers to this stock, which is in the midst of filling a sizable gap on the chart that presently runs from current PPS levels in the mid-to-upper .30’s, on up to around .47.

Yesterday RNVA hit a high of .39 before closing just below at .37. We’re looking for the stock to produce its fourth consecutive session of higher highs and higher lows today.
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Intermolecular, Inc. IMI – IMI is new to our reports this morning, and qualifies as both a bottom-bouncer as well as a potential momo-play. It also ended up closing with strength, just a hair shy of its daily high yesterday.

It comes less than a week removed from a big PPS dropoff, so we’ll be on the lookout for the stock to continue this rebound and regain some of the ground it has lost over the past week or so.

Tempur Sealy International, Inc. TPX – Options Update

We also want to provide a quick update on the TPX longer-term options idea that we’ve been tracking for over a week now. We were initially interested in the TPX 08/19 $70-80 Calls. The $70’s have since been pushed too deep in the money, but over the past week both the $75’s and $80’s have performed quite well:

$75 Calls – Range: 1.91-4.50 – Max Gain: 135%
$80 Calls – Range: .38-1.35 – Max Gain: 255%

We’ll continue to track these plays leading into their expiration next Friday.

Extended Watchlist:
ECPN, MINE, EEGI, ASPS, PLG, JD

Blue Horseshoe Stocks: SPY Review & More

SPDR S&P 500 ETF (SPY) – Options Recap

We continued to track our successful options idea from earlier in the week yesterday morning, as the SPY Weekly $188-191 Calls once again provided ammunition for some serious gains. Despite already having moved up considerably, we mentioned our expectations that those figures would be pushed higher and indeed they were.

As we did yesterday to save time, we’ll just outline the gains made by the bookend contracts of our observed range; similar gains would have been up for grabs in any of the contracts within. The $188 Calls extended their new high to 5.35, which represents a 226% overall move, and the $191’s pushed to 2.68- a gain of 587% over Tuesday’s low.

In addition to tracking our initial idea, our trader’s chat participants* were offered a followup idea prior to the bell yesterday that yielded big-time profit chances as well. As you can see from the screen capture below, we mentioned the possibility of rolling strike prices up to the $189.50-193.50 range, and all of those contracts were winners as well.

To give an idea of the gains available in that range, the $189.50’s made a move from 2.14-3.99 (+86%), while at the upper end, the $193.50 Calls made a 326% rip from .23-.98. All in all, there was no way to go wrong with any of our SPY Calls as the overall markets solidified their first three-day rally of 2016.

*Participation in our daily trader’s chats which currently take place via Skype is fun, free, and as simple as sending a contact request to username ‘stocksumo‘. All of our loyal readers are encouraged to take part!

Catalyst Pharmaceuticals, Inc. CPRX

We’ve spotted what could turn out to be a solid rebound play in CPRX this morning. On the heels of the company’s announcement that the FDA had served it with a letter of refusal pertaining to a recent NDA filing, the stock absolutely tanked.

The caveat is, the notice came with assurance that it was not related to the clinical data or perceived efficacy of the drug in question, but a filing error only. This means that the stock lost a good portion of its value in a single day for what seems to amount to nothing more than a clerical error (see chart below). We’ll be very interested to monitor the stock in coming sessions and observe its reaction.

Catalyst Pharmaceuticals Receives “Refusal to File” Letter From the FDA on Its NDA for Firdapse (Wed, Feb 17)

Extended Watchlist:
BRCD, GLUU, RUN, EPXY, ECPN, FILM, NUUU, NWPN,