Blue Horseshoe Stocks: SPY Calls, More Options

SPY Review

After big success with SPY options earlier last week, we decided to roll up our strike prices and make another pass at an some options ideas on the fund to open things up this week. A reversal on plans to slap tariffs on Mexican goods is helping to fuel a push for the markets in early trading today.

Our ideas for Friday were the SPY Weekly $285-286 Calls, and we’re happy to report some huge single session, multibag gain opportunities came out of those calls for us.

$285 Calls – Range: 1.18-3.86 – Max Gain: 227%
$286 Calls – Range: .59-2.89. – Max Gain: 393%

In order to stay close to the action, we’re going to want to stick with bullish SPY calls and roll up our strike prices yet again to kick off a new trading week this morning. We’re going to radar the SPY Weekly $288-290 Calls.


MGM Resorts International Inc. MGM – Form-4 Alert 

We always scan for new Form-4 submissions, and MGM is the latest subject of insider trading. A director of the company purchased over $20M in MGM stock three separate times last week. Between the buying from Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, Keith Meister purchased in excess of $75M+ worth of his company’s shares.

That is no small series of transactions, and leads us to believe confidence on the inside at MGm is high that the stock can continue recover off of its recent relative lows. We’re going to signal some longer term calls to correspond with the situation and begin tracking the MGM 08/16 $28-30 Calls.


SPECIAL NOTE: 

We urge readers not to miss out on any of our newsletters this week. We’ve got some plays in cannabis sector that are primed to heat up and we’ll be bringing those to you over the course of the week. You’ll definitely want to catch those, so make sure you’re scanning your inboxes each morning to get in on the action!


Extended Watchlist:
LJPC, AFH, KHC, CFMS, MELI, BYND, FTR, ZM

Blue Horseshoe Stocks: Wrapping Up Big Week for Options

Options Review

We included a pair of options ideas in yesterday’s premarket report, and scored multi-bag hits on both accounts.

We were banking on a third straight bullish day for the markets with our SPY idea, and betting that the huge premarket gap-up on SFIX was unsustainable. In both cases we were correct, and it provided us with the following opportunities:

SPDR S&P500 ETF (SPY) Weekly $283-284 Calls
$283 Calls – Range:
.98-2.81  – Max Gain: 187%
$284 Calls – Range: .57-2.00 – Max Gain: 251%

Today we will be looking to roll up our strike price on the SPY and tracking the SPY Weekly $285-286 Calls*.

Stitch Fix, Inc. SFIX Weekly $31-30 Puts
$30 Puts – Range: 1.40-3.22 – Max Gain: 130%

*Never trade weekly options on Friday, unless you are an advanced level trader with access to disposable funds!


At Home Group, Inc. HOME

HOME just missed on earnings and received an analyst downgrade, but on the hunch that the resultant gap-down was based on overreaction, we’re going to radar a set of contracts in the HOME chain to monitor in the event of a rebound. There is an enormous gap now sitting on the chart just waiting to be filled. We’ll have plenty of time to see that happen with the HOME 09/20 $8-10 Calls.


Extended Watchlist:
AMPG, FTD, SNY, RWLK, LJPC, HAIR

Blue Horseshoe Stocks: Form-4 Bottom Play

La Jolla Pharma Co. LJPC – Form-4 Bottom Play

One of the top scenarios we routinely scan for on a regular basis, is a Form-4 Bottom Play. Whenever we witness a stock trading at or near its annual lows being purchased in large amounts on the open market by its own directors, we can feel fairly certain that their confidence in a potential recovery is high.

LJPC is a fantastic example of this at the present time. We’ve just noticed more than 12M shares being purchased by a director in three separate transactions over the past few days, amounting to roughly $6.8M, or nearly five percent of LJPC’s total market cap. (>>View Transactions)

We’ll now treat this as any other bottom watch play, and monitor the stock for a recovery in coming sessions.


Kandi Technologies, Inc. KNDI

We signaled KNDI in yesterday morning’s extended watchlist, and the stock managed a solid move on the day for our first session of observation on the stock since early in the fall.

KNDI traded in a daily range from a low of 4.60 to 5.63, a modest but solid 22% intraday rise, and a good start on a more significant push. We’ll look for KNDI to test its previous resistance in the mid-$6 area going forward.


Fresh Options Ideas:
KBH 01/18 $22 & $23 Calls
BBBY Weekly $13 & $13.50 Calls