Tag: SPY

Blue Horseshoe Stocks: Big Win Friday

Recapping Friday’s Winners

If you check our report from Friday morning, you’ll see that we highlighted a couple of sets of weekly options ideas, and we’d like to kick off this short trading week with a review of the total possible gains which were available for anyone who caught our alerts.

SPDR S&P500 ETF (SPY) -Expecting to see some reasonably bullish activity based off of the conditions we observed on Friday in the premarket, we decided to make our go-to move of signaling some short-term SPY ideas. Out of that group, the Weekly $289 Calls were the most attractive play. Those traded up from a low of .55-1.54, for total possible gains of up to 180%
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The Walt Disney Co. DIS – We caught DIS gapping up on our morning scan Friday, and it was cruising in the premarket. It turned into a classic gap-and-go for us as our ideas, the Weekly $122-125 Calls, which all soared.

$122 Calls – Range: 4.40-10.25 – Max Gain: 133%
$123 Calls – Range: 3.75-7.59  – Max Gain: 102%
$124 Calls – Range: 2.53-6.60 – Max Gain: 161%
$125 Calls – Range: 1.68-6.01 – Max Gain: 258%

Extended Watchlist:
AMRS. BOOM, BPTH, COBI, FCSC, SCHW, NDRA, PULM, TBLT

Blue Horseshoe Stocks: FAST Recap & More

Fastenal, Inc. FAST

Our fresh options ideas for yesterday morning was regarding Fastenal,which had just posted a solid Q1 earnings beat. The potential targets that we highlighted were the FAST 04/18 $62.50-67.50 Calls, and we’re happy to report that the stock’s activity has allowed us to see some decent moves out of those so far, with five sessions remaining until their expiration.

The moves was observed yesterday were as follows:

$50 Calls – Range: 5.40-6.50 – Max Gain: 20%
$52.50 Calls – Range: 2.40-4.30  – Max Gain: 79%
$55 Calls – Range: 1.10-2.08 – Max Gain: 89%

With the markets heating up here in the premarket, we’ll want to continue to keep an eye on FAST for the possibility of further useful activity that could propel these contracts to more gains before their expiration next Thursday.
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FRESH OPTIONS IDEAS:
The Walt Disney Co. DIS Weekly $122-125 Calls
SPDR S&P500 ETF (SPY) Weekly $289-290 Calls

*Don’t trade weekly options on a Friday unless you’re an advanced level trader with disposable funds!

Extended Watchlist:
BPTH, WPX, JCP, BSMX, CBAY, WPX, ENDP

Blue Horseshoe Stocks: Options Recaps

SPDR S&P500 ETF (SPY)

On Friday morning, we set out to take advantage of the bullish premarket sentiment by tracking a set of options in the SPY chain, as we are well-accustomed to doing.

Our targets were the Weekly $287-288 Calls and with the help of a solid run for the markets at large, our ideas bore fruit. All three, in fact, produced highly respectable chances for intraday profits.

$287 Calls – Range: .92-1.70 – Max Gain: 85%
$287.50 Calls – Range: .62-1.18 – Max Gain: 90%
$288 Calls – Range: .29-.80 – Max Gain: 176%

Centene Corp. CNC

Toward the end of last month, we produced an idea for the CNC 09/20 $50 & $55 Calls, and we also wanted to update our readers on the progress of those contracts since that time.

The $50 Calls have thus far risen from 1.80-8.53, an increase of 374% The $55 Calls obliterated those figures, with a massive run from .31-6.08, for total possible gains of 1,861%

Extended Watchlist:
GNFT, TCON, THCT,