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Blue Horseshoe Stocks: Pharma Watchlist & More

Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, Inc. LXRX

We’re taking notice of LXRX this morning in the wake of a premarket PR that has the stock trending up to its highest levels of the past three months; it contained updates on current projects as well as increased earnings. The addition of an interesting setup on the chart gives us good reason to place LXRX on watch this mid-week.

As you can see on the snapshot below, the stock gapped down significantly at the end of November. In premarket activity today we’re seeing a partial fill taking place. We’re going to be watching for LXRX to fill the remainder of the gap into the mid 1.20’s where its next area of resistance will come in at the 200DMA of 1.28.

THE WOODLANDS, Texas, March 4, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (LXRX), a biopharmaceutical company focused on developing breakthrough treatments for human disease, today updated its drug development progress and reported financial results for the three months and year ended December 31, 2014.>> VIEW PR

Pharmaceutical Watchlist

There are a number of other pharma and biopharma stocks gapping up in the premarket this morning, some of which have appeared in our reports in the past. We’ve listed them below along with links to today’s news, where applicable:

Keryx Biopharmaceuticals, Inc. KERX


Atossa Genetics, Inc. ATOS


Coronado Biosciences, Inc. CNDO

Coronado Biosciences Forms New Subsidiary, Checkpoint Therapeutics, to Develop Novel Immuno-Oncology Antibodies (Wed 8:30AM EST)

PhotoMedex, Inc. PHMD

Orexigen Therapeutics, Inc. OREX

KaloBios Pharmaceuticals, Inc. KBIO

Earnings-Related Options Ideas

American Eagle Outfitters, Inc. AEO beat expected Q4 profits and revenues, and is gapping up as a result. To take advantage of the trend, we are monitoring options trading possibilities in the AEO Weekly $15-16 Calls

Abercrombie & Fitch ANF fell short of expectations with regard to sales, which is fueling a downtrend here in the premarket, so we’ll take the opposite approach here, and keep an eye on ANF Weekly $23-24 Puts.

Extended Watchlist:
IFON, PLUG, NPTN, WLT, LEI

Blue Horseshoe Stocks: SINO & PBR Updates

Sino-Global Shipping America Ltd. SINO

In yesterday’s newsletter, we mentioned that SINO was gapping up sharply in premarket trading, and as a result we would be on the lookout for a classic dip-and-rip pattern. That’s precisely what we got as SINO would settle into a low of 3.31 very early on, before springing back to run to a daily high of 4.69, which incidentally happened to be a new annual high as well.

In total the move was enough to secure up to 41% in intraday profits on incredible volume, to the tune of more than 58x the 3-month average.

This definitely signals a strong week for us; it marks the second consecutive session that a stock appearing in our pre-market report went on to set a new one-year high!

Petroleo Brasiliero S.A. (Petrobras) PBR- Options

The PBR Calls that we tagged in yesterday’s pre-market report fared extremely well as PBR once again surged past the $17-mark, and even cracked $18 briefly in the afternoon. The bullish run resulted in the $16.50 Calls trading up from .92 to 1.35, for a 47% intraday run, and the $17 Calls making an even better move. They started from a low .56 and spiked 105% to 1.15.

At this point our winning calls involving the PBR options chain, spanning back from early this spring, are too many to count. It has indeed been a wellspring that we’ve returned to time and again, and have almost always met with positive results.

Moving forward, we’ll be looking to roll our strike price up a bit to the $17 & $17.50 Calls, and in the event that PBR re-breaches and holds the $18-level, possibly even consider moving it up further to the $18’s and $18.50’s.

Extended Watchlist:
AUXL, IFON, AKS, CTIC, IMUC, PERI, OTIV