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Blue Horseshoe Stocks: Options Recaps, Recovery Play & More


Options Recaps

Our closing thoughts in Friday’s premarket report included some options ideas pertaining to our bullish feelings on AAPL and the SPY.

Specifically, we targeted SPY Weekly $193-194.50 Calls, and AAPL Weekly $115 and $116 Calls and included the following warning: “Trading options with a weekly expiration on a Friday carries an inherently elevated risk-reward factor, and is certainly not for the faint-of-heart, or beginning traders.” That would have been an important thing to remember, because the markets did pull back toward the end of the day, eventually rendering those contracts worthless, but not before opportunities for some big intraday gains were presented.

Early trading ranges in our SPY Calls rendered the chance at gains between 70-130% while the AAPL Calls did considerably better. The $115’s made a 293% move from .27-1.06, and the $116’s took the cake with a 520% surge from a nickel up to .31!

Heron Therapeutics, Inc. HRTX Puts

We also had some successful ideas going in the opposite direction; our bearish sentiment on HRTX paid some excellent dividends via the options chain last week, as we were mentioning on Friday. The stock continued to backslide into the close, reaching the $30-range with a daily low of 30.06. From our observed high of 42.25 at the time of our initial alert last Wednesday that’s roughly a 30% loss.

It will be interesting to see if this morning’s PR from HRTX affects the dynamics of the chart.

Clean Coal Technologies, Inc. CCTC

We also want to make another quick mention of CCTC, which has continually set new highs for us in the month of September.

We tracked the stock to some more nice gains last week, as it made a healthy intraday move of 21% from .72 to .87. That extends the total range we’ve observed following our initial alerts earlier this month from a low of .36 to Friday’s high; a total move of 142% in just two weeks’ time.

Totally Hemp Crazy, Inc. THCZ

We tagged this old familiar play on Friday for the first time since spring, and it turned out to be fortuitous timing as the stock made a noteworthy intraday jump.  THCZ traded from a low of .09 up as high as .1189, a 32% spike.

We’ll begin to pay closer attention to this and other cannabis-related stocks as election time draws nearer and the issue of marijuana is once again tested on ballots. We’ll be open to the possibility of new waves of attention for the sector as a whole, and be sure to keep our ear to the tracks for relevant developments.


Pier 1 Imports, Inc. PIR

A failure to beat Wall Street’s expectations on both guidance and earnings led PIR to gap down on Friday, though the dip wasn’t sustained. After seeing a low of 6.84 the stock did manage to recover quite a bit of ground into a 7.61 close. This transpired at a time when the chart was already fairly oversold, and that effect has been magnified as we point out on the chart snapshot below.

We’re going to have PIR on an extended-term recovery watch. A return to even the 50DMA would spell significant gains from the current juncture.

Extended Watchlist:
GEQU, COTE, EQLB, IMUN, NESV, PBMD

Blue Horseshoe Stocks: HRTX Recap, Bottom-Play & More

Heron Therapeutics, Inc. HRTX

During premarket trading on Wednesday, we spotted a unique opportunity in HRTX, which was in the process of surging on news of some positive Phase II study results. We pointed out that despite the excitement and subsequent knee-jerk reaction tied to the announcement, the chart had been looking bearish and “ripe for further losses” leading up to that point.

That’s what caused us to formulate an idea for the HRTX Weekly $45 and $42.50 Puts for when the stock began to pull back off of its hype-driven spike, and the ensuing chain of events followed our expectations to the letter.

From Wednesday’s high of 42.25, the stock tumbled back to a low of 35.12 during yesterday’s trading, and in the process the contracts we were monitoring put on quite a session-over-session performance. Over that short span, the $45 Puts traded in a range from 6.50-9.20 for a 42% move, while the $42.50’s made a slightly bigger move from 4.10-7.20 for gains of up to 76%

Boreal Water Collection, Inc. BRWC

BRWC was a mention in yesterday’s morning report, and the stock made a noteworthy intraday spike of 33% from a low of .0009 to .0012.

From the look of the chart, for us to remain interested, we’d need BRWC to maintain support above the current 50DMA of .0008 on any pullbacks and test its previous swing high of .0013. Beyond that point, there isn’t much in the way of resistance on up to the .0018-level.

Sientra, Inc. SIEN

We’re looking at SIEN as a potential recovery-play after news of a securities fraud investigation absolutely pushed the stock off of a cliff from the $20-level down to a new 52-week low at 9.38 yesterday. Even with the caveat of a pending investigation, we’re always looking at the possibility of snapping up highly-discounted shares when a stock tumbles so dramatically on events where no material changes in the company have taken place.

Already in the premarket we’re seeing a bit of a course-correction from SIEN as it has made its way back to the $11-mark. We’ll keep a continuous eye on this stock in coming sessions for the possibility of a rebound, and keep a lookout for any further updates regarding the accusations levied against Sientra.


Markets Gapping Up – Options Ideas

After taking a beating for the majority of the week leading into a late-day rally yesterday, the overall markets as a whole are gapping up early this morning, and we’d like to float a set of corresponding options ideas if the trend carries the way we suspect it might.

We’re going to be looking for some dip-and-rip action, and in doing so, have our sights focused on Weekly Calls* in both the SPY and AAPL chains. In particular, we’re zeroing in on SPY Weekly $193-194.50 Calls, and AAPL Weekly $115 and $116 Calls.

*Just to reiterate what we’ve said in the past- trading options with a weekly expiration on a Friday carries an inherently elevated risk-reward factor, and is certainly not for the faint-of-heart, or beginning traders.


Extended Watchlist:
PCSV, THCZ, QLTS, CHIT

Blue Horseshoe Stocks: GBSN Review & More

Great Basin Scientific, Inc. GBSN

If it wasn’t already clear why we kept GBSN on bottom-watch for the past three weeks since our initial flag, yesterday’s continued uptrend brought it into much clearer focus.

Yesterday, after we re-alerted our readers that it had finally lifted off from its annual lows with a nice 50% intraday move, we mentioned that we wanted to see the stock establish a higher base of support as well as new highs, and it got a good start toward that end.

From its morning low of .098, the stock hurtled its way up to a daily high of .1389, which represents an intraday swing of 63%, and from its ultimate low of a nickel from the session prior, an overall increase of 178%

Once again, we’ll look for GBSN to exhibit signs of a more sustained recovery in sessions to come; as a quick view of the current chart reveals, the stock is still in heavily oversold territory and still looking bullish. We’ll want to see it maintain support at a minimum of .0785 to consider the uptrend still in effect.

Heron Therapeutics, Inc. HRTX

HRTX is gapping up heavily in the premarket today on the heels of yesterday’s revelation that the company’s bunionectomy pain drug generated exceedingly positive top-line results in Phase II studies. There is a conference call that just got underway at 8:30AM Eastern discussing the results of that study.

Despite the excitement being shown presently, leading up to this series of events, the HRTX Chart was on its way down and looking ripe for further losses, with the PPS sinking below the 50DMA for the first time since early August, a weakening RSI, and a bearish MACD.  We’re going to be looking at a way to take advantage as the stock pulls back off of this morning’s perhaps over-inflated excitement.

If it turns out as we suspect it may, we’ll look for action in the HRTX Weekly $45 and $42.50 Puts, however, in the event that it appears a bigger move up is imminent, we’d need to hop to the other side of the fence, and in that case, we’d most likely look to the Weekly $40 Calls.

Clean Coal Technologies, Inc. CCTC

We first put CCTC on watch a couple of weeks back, including in our reports on both the 9th and 10th of this month. On those first two days, we witnessed a 42% run from .45-.64, which preceded a pullback to a low of .36 the following day (11th).

Since that time, CCTC has been on a steady incline, and yesterday stock reached a new high of .7238, which marks a seven-session swing of 101% Both it and GBSN have clearly demonstrated why it’s smart to keep a continuous eye on stocks appear to present a good opportunity. Occasionally it takes several days for an idea to mature, but as we saw in both cases here, our initial instincts did prove correct.

Extended Watchlist:
SIRG, STTX, EVTI, CMGO