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Blue Horseshoe Stocks: Form-4 Watchlist, Options Ideas & More

Insider Buying Watchlist

Both of the following are plays that we’ve tracked in some capacity in the past, and each of them grabbed our attention with recent insider transactions of a sizable magnitude which were executed at higher levels than the current PPS. We like to monitor stocks whose directors have confidence in future price performance, and that’s the impression we get when they soak up large blocks of shares in this manner. Each of these stocks is also currently trading at a relative bottom, so we’ll be watching in the days and weeks to come for signs of bounceplay opportunities. 

The ExOne Co.  XONE

In the case of XONE, CEO Kent Rockwell last weekend filed a Form-4 indicating the purchase of a $13M block of XONE at 9.13, more than a dollar per share higher than the current PPS. This is a significant development that warrants heavy monitoring for XONE.

Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. ESPR

The traunch of shares purchased by ESPR director Tim Mayleben wasn’t nearly as large as the previously mentioned block, but still, a $100K investment is nothing at which to sneeze. The trade was executed at 14.08 (Current PPS:13.77). ESPR has just come up off of its newly established 52-week lows, and has been going through a bout of serious under-performance, so we’ll want to keep our heads on a swivel for any developments that might kick this thing into gear.

Fresh Options Ideas

To kick things off this week on the options front, we’ve formulated a couple of ideas based on announced and expected earnings, and the resultant activity we’re observing here in the premarket.

Tiffany & Co. TIF

We’re looking at going bearish on TIF, which, on the heels of a lackluster holiday season in terms of jewelry sales, failed to meet or beat earnings expectations and is currently gapping down in early trading. We’re going to track a range of contracts here, namely the TIF Weekly $66.50-64 Puts, for potential daytrades.

Netflix, Inc. NFLX

NFLX has its earnings call slated for the post-market today, and we’re going to want to track a range of calls in anticipation of that event. We’ve witnessed runs into earnings so many times before, it’d almost be foolish to ignore NFLX under the present circumstances. We’re going to keep an eye on NFLX Weekly $105-107 Calls to take advantage of a possible continued run-up for the stock.

Extended Watchlist:
SBS, AEZS, SHOP, COTE, GDPM, BVAP, PLKD(Bottom-Watch), FREE(1-for-60 Reverse Split)

Blue Horseshoe Stocks: Big Options Winners & More

Friday Recap: Huge Options Success

Even during such times when big stock gainers are difficult to come by, we’ve managed to balance the scales with some excellent options ideas. It hasn’t been just a few either, a fact to which our regular readers can surely attest. It’s been one great idea after another, and Friday’s premarket report included still more premium chances for big intraday profits!

Our specific targets were UVXY Weekly $33-35 Calls, and SPY Weekly 205-203.50 Puts and there were no contracts within the specified ranges that didnt make an appreciable move during the session. The epic moves were as follows:

Pro-Shares Ultra VIX Short-Term Futures (UVXY) Calls
$33 Calls – Trading Range: 1.01-4.70 – Max Gain: 365%
$33.50 Calls – Trading Range: .80-4.13 – Max Gain: 416%
$34 Calls – Trading Range: .59-3.70 – Max Gain: 527%
$34.50 Calls – Trading Range: .45-2.82 – Max Gain: 526%
$35 Calls – Trading Range: .26-2.85 – Max Gain: 996%

SPDR S&P 500 ETF (SPY) Puts
$205 Puts – Trading Range: .78-2.63  – Max Gain: 237%
$204.50 Puts – Trading Range: .54-2.17 – Max Gain: 302%
$204 Puts – Trading Range: .33-1.60 – Max Gain: 385%
$203.50 Puts – Trading Range: .20-1.17 – Max Gain: 485%

Big cheers go out to any of our readers who were with us on these monstrously successful calls (and puts) on Friday! As we said, most of the options ideas we’ve been formulating have been home runs, and these plays were no different.

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As a bonus idea, we included a flag of the FitBit, Inc. FIT  Weekly $30 and 29 Puts, and some stellar gains were possible there as well:

$30 Puts – Trading Range: 1.00-2.80  – Max Gain: 180%
$29 Puts – Trading Range: .54-2.17 – Max Gain: 302%

Bottom-Watch Plays

Magnum Hunter Resources Corp. MHRC

We’re going to signal our interest in MHRC as a potential bottom-play this morning, and a quick viewing of the chart will show why. The stock has been beaten senseless in recent sessions, and is well into what we’d characterize as heavily oversold territory. It has managed to register higher lows in each of the past three sessions, so we’ll be watching for a continuation of that trend up off of the recently recorded 52-week low.

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SunEdison, Inc. SUNE

We’ve had our eye on SUNE as the apparently undervalued stock was searching for a bottom. We were looking for solid signs that it had found that bottom and was readying for a rebound, and over the past couple of sessions, we’ve seen the signals we were after. We’re going to officially place this one on watch as we kick off a new week, as we feel the stock to be grossly undervalued at the current PPS.

Trader’s Chat Winner

We also want to give a quick shout-out to DJ from our live trader’s chat* on Friday, who called out the NFLX $105 Puts which subsequently ran from .25-1.63 (+552%). Cheers, DJ!

*Remember, any of our valued readers has to do to get in on our daily trader’s chats, is log into (or create) your Skype account and send a contact request to ‘stocksumo’. We’d be happy to allow any interested parties to participate!

Extended Watchlist:
BIEL, BIEI, GLDG, EURI

Blue Horseshoe Stocks: UVXY Recap, Options Review & More

Options Updates

ProShares Ultra VIX Short-Term Futures (UVXY) – 

In Friday’s premarket report, we essentially served up our readers an absolute gem of an options idea on a silver platter, when we identified the high potential of some prime intraday flip opportunities.

We posited that the overall markets would see a pullback, and offered our take on a good way to leverage that eventuality for quick-strike gains in weekly UVXY contracts. The markets were indeed hammered back for most of the session, and as a result, our assumptions paid off in spades.

Our specified target range included UVXY Weekly $73-78 Calls, and every last set of contracts provided us with the chance to bank multi-bag gains. Check it out:

$73 Calls  – Daily Range: 2.17-8.10 – Max Gain: 273%
$74 Calls  – Daily Range: 1.47-7.20 – Max Gain: 390%
$75 Calls  – Daily Range: 1.17-6.40 – Max Gain: 447%
$76 Calls  – Daily Range: 1.10-4.53 – Max Gain: 312%
$77 Calls  – Daily Range: 77-4.34 – Max Gain: 464%
$78 Calls  – Daily Range: .57-3.68 – Max Gain: 545%

Updated Idea:

With another reversal appearing likely with this morning’s gap-up in the markets, we’ll want to swing our attention in the opposite direction. The SPY generally trades inversely to the UXVY, thus we’ll be monitoring SPY Weekly $195-197 Calls in the event of a continued uptrend signal.

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Longer-Term Ideas – Update

For each of the past two Thursdays, we’ve mentioned our interest in a set of longer-term options ideas for a number of tech stocks, namely the 9/18-10/02  FB, GPRO, GMCR, AAPL, NFLX, and TSLA Calls.

With between 1.5-3.5 weeks until expiration on the contracts contained in that range, we’ve seen some nice moves already, and we want to continue to keep an eye on this whole group. With the volatile flux we’ve observed in recent market activity, further opportunities could certainly present themselves in coming sessions.


PharmaRoth Labs, Inc. ROTH

We noticed some exciting news hitting the wires this morning for ROTH, and the PPS is currently down to a relative bottom, so we’re going to tab this subpenny play for extended observation.