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Blue Horseshoe Stocks: A Word on Ebola & Much More

A Word on the “Ebola Effect”

In a hype-filled environment that is beginning to resemble early-2014’s cannabis “green rush”, most stocks with news announcements even remotely connected to the Ebola virus have been seeing exponential spikes in activity. Fear, no matter how irrational, can be one of the market’s most potent driving forces, and we are seeing affirmations of this left and right. Regardless of the cause or rationale, we are always standing at the ready to take advantage of powerful trends, and so far we’ve done a pretty good job of tracking down some Ebola-related winners in the last couple of weeks.. There were two in yesterday’s report alone.

NanoLogix, Inc. NNLX

NNLX was a standout which announced yesterday morning that it was “configuring its N-Assay Rapid diagnostic kits for both Ebola Virus and Enterovirus detection”  and as a result, the stock leaped out of the gate to make a serious move first thing in the morning. It traded in a massive range, running rapidly from .06 to .18;  a full 200% intraday move!

  Aethlon Medical, Inc. AEMD

AEMD was another one we were tracking from yesterday’s newsletter, and the company subsequently published a report stating that it had used its “Hemopurifier” to treat an Ebola patient in Sierra Leone. It led to a 37% intraday swing (.19-26).

New Entry on Our Ebola Watchlist:

We’re also going to radar WholeHealth Products, Inc. GWPC after we caught an after-hours PR yesterday evening. With untraded-upon news on such a hot topic, we’ll be anxious to see how the stock responds today.

Accentia BioPharmaceticals, Inc.  ABPI

While not an Ebola-connected biopharma play, were glad to have included ABPI in yesterday’s premarket report. Its SinuNase sinusitis treatment has been fast-tracked by the FDA, and the company happened to release word that “several unnamed pharmaceutical companies… have approached the company over SinuNase.”

The announcement caused a monstrous spike in early trading with stock jumping up from the open at .0065 and reaching .027! That works out to a mammoth move of 315% and there was also a subsequent dip-and-rip as the stock came off that initial high. It bounced off of a penny and ran back to .023, adding a 130% swing, and that was followed by yet another from .0107 to .018 (+68%).

In total, we witnessed 513% in cumulative gains for the day, so congrats to anyone who caught our tag, because even if you only took advantage of a fraction of those intraday moves, chances are you still walked away with a tidy profit.

ChinaNet Online Holdings, Inc. CNET

We’ve been tracking CNET pretty closely since we first caught it on a momentum scan back on Sept. 22nd, and re-tagged it in yesterday’s report. Following some news, we saw a couple of respectable intraday swings out of the stock. First, from 1.55 to 2.17 (+40%), and then again from 1.83 to 2.16 (+18%).

The company announced it was teaming with credit search engine Haodai and the Yooli crowdfunding outfit to offer “Zero Down Payment Loans” to entrepreneurs. >>View PR

Extended Watchlist:
APT, VSR, PPHM, RCPI, IBIO,

Blue Horseshoe Stocks: Friday Recap, DRL & More

Reviewing Friday’s Top Picks

iBio, Inc. IBIO

The number one mover from our Friday morning report was undoubtedly IBIO. Our recent observation that increasing concerns over the presence of the Ebola virus on American soil would drive related stocks paid off in spades.

IBIO was among those to get a huge boost on unconfirmed reports that it would aid in government efforts to speed production of the ZMapp experimental Ebola treatment.

The stock would see a low of .89 near the beginning of the session, and ended up running extremely hard into the close, reaching a high of 1.57. That equals out to an intraday surge of 76% but our total possible gains didn’t stop there. The stock continues to roll this morning, having hit a high of 2.76 in the premarket and pushing the total amount of the increase we’ve seen on IBIO since Friday morning to an impressive 210%


Alpha Pro Tech Ltd. APT

Like IBIO, APT was also affected by Ebola fears on Friday, and traded in a less extreme but similar pattern. After seeing a morning low of 5.72, the stock pushed the envelope into the close, reaching a peak of 7.43 for a 30% intraday gain. It is also gapping up bigtime today, with a premarket high of 9.25, which marks a 62% move up from Friday morning’s low.

Doral Financial Corp. DRL

Some of our more seasoned subscribers will certainly remember our coverage of DRL this year. We were waiting to get word on the company’s tax suit against the Puerto Rican governement, and Friday following market close, it was announced that the court has ruled in favor of Doral, which will be due the disputed-over sum of $229M.

As a result of this untraded-upon news, the stock is gapping up like crazy today, to the tune of a 9.46 premarket high, up well over 100% above the low we observed following our initial alert on DRL this summer.

We’ll probably see some selling pressure from profit taking in a situation like this, so we’ll be on the lookout for a potential dip-and-rip scenario to kick off the week.

Extended Watchlist:
AHPI, HEB, NSPH, SMED, FOMX, OBCI,

Blue Horseshoe Stocks: Options Trading Ideas & More

Running Options Trading Idea – PBR

We keep going back to the well that is the PBR options chain, and almost never come up empty-handed. Just to recap this week’s action, we targeted the PBR November $16 Calls on Tuesday morning, and were promptly rewarded with an 35% intraday spike.

On Wednesday, we commented on the real possibility of seeing more action in PBR options as the stock pulled back and rebounded, and it only took until yesterday’s session to see that prediction met.

For the second time this week PBR breached the $17-mark, and as a result, the $16 Weekly Calls traded from .86 to 1.20, an intraday increase totaling 39%

Movers From Yesterday’s Watchlist

First Liberty Power Corp. FLPC
FLPC made a notable move right at the start of the session yesterday morning, opening up at .002 and rapidly running to .0027. That marked a quick chance at up to 35% in gains.

iHookup Social, Inc. HKUP
We also tagged HKUP, and the stock would provide a series of intraday swings of which one could have taken advantage; the two main thrusts were from .006-.0072 (+20%), and .0062 to .0069 (11%).

Added Notes:

The overall markets took a pounding yesterday, and after a contrary performance by TSLA which managed a positive move, the stock is pulling back today to a premarket low of 240.56. As long as support holds at that range, we’ll be expecting to see a bounce. If that proves to be the case, we’ll need to identify a proper options trading target.

Likewise, we’re looking for an upcoming bounce on the SPY which got drudged down along with the market yesterday. We may have an interest in trading SPY Calls, and should be ready for a rebound to come at any time.

SPIR (On Bottom-Watch)
We want to quickly make a note of SPIR as well. The stock fell to new 52-week lows yesterday; we always like to monitor plays like these for potential bottom bounces.

Extended Watchlist:
APT, OBCI, IBIO, DYNT, LAKE,