Blue Horseshoe Stocks: Earnings-Related Options Ideas

Earnings-Related Options Ideas

We’ve uncharacteristically neglected the options trading arena a bit this week, so this morning we’re going to start off by signaling a range of Calls in the chains of a couple stocks whose earnings have just been released.

Tesla Motors Corp. TSLA – Despite a miss on earnings released yesterday post-market, we’re seeing TSLA rebounding from its week-long slide in premarket trading this morning.

We’ll go ahead and formulate a conditional idea to correspond to the situation. Stipulating that the stock can hold support above the current 200DMA (225.98) on any pullbacks following the opening bell and break back above the 50DMA, we’re going to be monitoring the activity in TSLA Weekly $225-230 Calls for the possibility of some nice intraday upswing action.

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Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. BABA – In early trading BABA is gapping up after an earnings beat this morning which included a 39% boost in Q4 revs, and a 42% monthly rise in active usership via mobile platforms.

We’re going to signal a range of short-term calls for this play as well, zeroing in on the BABA Weekly $77-81 Calls for potential quick-strike trades.


Pot Stocks on Watch Again

There has been a lot of ebb and flow to general interest in cannabis plays, and it appears that we’re heading into another hot zone. We keep a continual watch over the entire sector, and there has been rising activity in many of the pot stocks that we track routinely.

The usual suspects to which we are referring are GRNH, MJNA, CBIS, TRTC, & CANV. We’ll be sure to keep each of them on closer watch in the sessions ahead.


Added Note:

xG Technology, Inc. XGTI, which we tracked from a low of .08 late last month and have been mentioning all this week, is seeing another early push today in the wake of some patent news(>>View PR) . Reserve a slot on your radars as the stock has reached a new high of .18 in the premarket today.


Extended Watchlist:
PBR, CHK, LGCY, NHMD(Momentum Mover)

Blue Horseshoe Stocks: Options Ideas, Chatroom Call & More

Options Update

Medivation, Inc. MDVN

The fresh idea that we produced in yesterday’s morning report was a rousing success. We had our sights set on MDVN Weekly $41.50-43.50 Calls as outlined in our watchlist, and from within that range came multiple chances for outstanding intraday gains.

$42 Calls – Trading Range: .54-4.29 – Max Gain: 694%
$42.50 Calls – Trading Range: 1.75-3.70 – Max Gain: 111%
$43 Calls – Trading Range: .80- 2.07 – Max Gain: 159%\

The stock is gapping up drastically in the premarket, so we expect it to add to those gains this morning.

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Fresh Ideas:

Tesla Motors, Inc. TSLA – Today we’re going to hone in on TSLA Weekly $240-250 Calls* for possible daytrades.

ProShares Ultra VIX Short-Term Futures UVXY – The markets don’t seem to be responding well to the new jobs figures. Our related target is going to be Weekly UVXY $19-21 Calls*.

*Don’t forget, trading weekly options on Friday is very risky. Not to be attempted if you’re anything less than an expert trader!


Bottom-Watchlist Updates

RCPI, TWER, SKYS, UAMY

Yesterday morning, we gave our readers a heads-up on four big board plays that were trading at relative bottoms that we wanted to watch for rebound activity. While it was the most pronounced in SKYS, all four of them produced some level of intraday upswing.

Sky Solar Holdings Ltd. SKYS – As we said, the clear winner for the session was SKYS which rode a wave of upward momentum from a morning low of 1.30 to a subsequent high of 2.58. That gave anyone who caught our alert a chance at gains of up to 98% on the day! The ranges and gains on the remaining trio of bottom plays were as follows:

Rock Creek Pharmaceuticals, Inc. RCPI – Range: .295-.365  – Gained: 24%

United States Anitmony Corp. UAMY – Range: .1997-.243 – Gained: 22%

Towerstream Corp. TWER – Range: .1099-.129 – Gained: 17%

We’ll leave all four on our radars in sessions to come to spy for signs of continued recoveries, with the recording of higher lows and higher highs.

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Strikeforce Technologies, Inc. SFOR

We also had SFOR come off of our extended watchlist to put up a solid session. The stock ran from a low of .0007 and reached .0013 for an 86% intraday rip.


Latest From the Chatroom

As many of you already know, we conduct daily live traders chats via Skype, and one of our valued participants produced another bigtime winner yesterday. DJ was at it again with his knack for sussing out hidden gems, and the whole group benefited.

He spotted NVNT and shared with the room, and what followed was an epic run from .002-.024 (+1100%).

If this isn’t an example of why we urge our readers to get involved with the chats nothing is, so do yourself a favor and send a Skype contact request to username stocksumo and start participating today!


Extended Watchlist:
CDNL, SBFM, TAUG, BTFL, SCTY,

Blue Horseshoe Stocks: Options Update, New Idea & More

Valeant Pharmaceuticals International, Inc. VRX-  Options Update
 
We wanted to circle back to touch upon an update for the VRX 04/22 $32 Calls we initially slated for observation on Tuesday.  VRX trading activity allowed for us to witness a run from 2.90-3.90 that day, for possible gains of up to 35%

We stated as much in yesterday’s morning report, with the added reminder that we felt certain the scope of those gains would increase, and we were spot-on once again.

For the day we observed a move from 4.25-5.25, a relatively modest 24%, however as measured from the low we saw on Tuesday morning, it marked a two-day swing of 81%, so cheers to those of our readers who were following along with us on this play!


Tesla Motors, Inc. TSLA – New Options Idea

Up until yesterday’s session, TSLA had been enjoying an epic rally which began in early February, however, that began to fizzle out over the past couple of days. The stock now appears very top-heavy, and that was confirmed by a fall below its 200DMA yesterday.

In the event that this is a protracted backsliding event, we’re going to want to be ready with a corresponding options trading idea.  We’re going to zero in on contracts in the range of TSLA March 24th $220-215 Puts, which qualify as Weekly contracts*, as the markets are closed tomorrow.

*Please remember, trading weekly options contracts on a Friday is an extreme high risk/high reward proposition, and is recommended for highly experienced traders only.


Celator Pharmaceuticals, Inc. CPXX

CPXX was a point of focus for us last Wednesday, when we caught a hot PR hitting the wires, and despite the stock already being up considerably at that point, we were able to glean a healthy 41% gain out of the stock that first day (from a low of 6.44).

As we’ve kept observing the play over the course of the week, we’ve seen a continual stream of higher highs and higher lows, which culminated in a new high of 12.64 yesterday. In exactly one week’s time, we saw CPXX make an overall swing totaling 96%


Great Basin Scientific, Inc. GBSN

We also want to give ourselves a quick pat on the back for calling GBSN to our readers attention via our extended watchlist yesterday. The stock was experiencing highly abnormal activity due to some FDA News and despite gapping up to the extreme, we still saw a dip-and-rip which carried the stock on an intraday run from .222-.29, a 31% swing.


Extended Watchlist:
PTX, JDST, CNAB, GVSI, MLCG, SIPC, MAXD(Bottom-bouncer)

Blue Horseshoe Stocks: New Options Ideas & More

Unique Pizza & Subs Corp UPZS

UPZS was one of a pair of stocks that we added to our watchlist on Friday that continued to perform well yesterday. We’ve had experience with this play making gains for us in the past as well. We observed a low of .008 in UPZS Friday morning, and yesterday the stock reached a high of .0136. That worked out to a three-session swing of 70% and has come on very high volume.

Yesterday’s move brought the stock to within just a few ticks of its 52-week high of .014. We’ll definitely want to keep a lookout for a breach of that price point, which could certainly lead to what we like to call a Blue Sky Breakout.


NetTalk.com, Inc. NTLK

The other notable mention from Friday’s report came in the form of NTLK, which took an extra couple of sessions to settle in and find support. It did so very early on yesterday morning, and followed up with a steady-gaining performance throughout the course of the day, which led from a low .0023 on up to .006, an intraday swing of 161%

We’ll watch for it to consolidate off of that high and keep our eyes peeled for subsequent rebound opportunities.


Fresh Options Ideas

Tesla Motors, Inc. TSLA
–  As we point out on the chart below, we watched as TSLA rejected off of its 50DMA yesterday and went bearish. We’re going to want to stick close and monitor a couple sets of medium-term plays in the event that an extended backslide occurs in coming sessions. We’re looking at four contracts in particular in this case- TSLA 01/11 and 01/18 $180 and $177.50 Puts.

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Abercrombie & Fitch Co. ANF

We also want to signal a range of ANF contracts for observation in the wake of this morning’s earnings beat. We’ll look to take advantage of ANF Weekly $29-32 Calls for potential daytrade and intraweek swing-trade opportunities.


Extended Watchlist:
PGEI, VRCI, DEAC, TDCH, AWGI

Blue Horseshoe Stocks: ASTI Recap, Options Reminder & More

Trevena, Inc. TRVN

Of all of the plays that we were monitoring via our extended watchlist in yesterday’s premarket report, the most potent intraday performance came from TRVN. The stock had made a nice move in the previous session, had pulled back, and looked primed for another nice move based on the premarket activity we observed.

As the overall markets saw a trend reversal, TRVN made a solid, steady, run from a daily low of 9.21 up to 11.47; that registered as a 25% increase on more than 12X the 3-month average volume.

The stock is increasing further in the premarket today (traded as high as 11.83 thus far), so we might want to look out for the possibility of a slight dip followed by a continuation of yesterday’s momentum.


Ascent Solar Technologies, Inc. ASTI

ASTI is a stock we’re very familiar with, as a quick tag search of our archives reveals, we’ve taken advantage of this stock multiple times over the years. A couple of weeks ago, we tagged the stock as a bottom-watch play after noticing it was being beaten back to new 52-week lows.

We stated that ASTI was a prime candidate for a bounceplay, and an extreme item of interest “because when a rebound does occur, it could be very significant.” and we couldn’t have been more spot-on in that assumption.

It’s ultimate low of .10 came just three sessions hence, and the impressive multi-day recovery pushed ASTI as high as .3597 yesterday. That represents an overall swing of 260%


Options Reminder:

Last Thursday just as the markets were becoming highly distressed, we formulated set of longer-term options plays to watch once a market rebound began to occur.

Yesterday, another reversal came to pass, so we just wanted to issue a brief reminder of the potential targets we listed, and are still tracking heavily: 09/18-10/02 Calls in the FB, GPRO, GMCR, AAPL, NFLX, and TSLA chains.


Extended Watchlist:
AXPW & VRA (Nice Moves Yesterday, Still on Watch),
MEI, GBSN, GEVO

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