Blue Horseshoe Stocks: Big News for KRFT & More

Kraft (KRFT) to Merge With Heinz
In a move that will effectively create the third-biggest food company on the North American continent, it has been announced that Kraft Foods Group Inc. (KRFT) and H.J. Heinz Co. will merge. 3G Capital and Berkshire Hathaway, which bought Heinz for $23B and took it private back in 2013, will be orchestrating the deal.

As a result of this development, KRFT is gapping up monstrously in the premarket to the tune of more than 30% Generally when we see a stock soar on news like this, our first instinct is to continually scan for a dip-and-rip scenario once the session commences. When the rip does occur, we’re going to be looking to April $75-85 Calls for intraday options trading possibilities.

Kraft Foods, H.J. Heinz to Merge (Wed 8:18AM EDT)


Social Media Sector on Watch

Despite uncertainly over whether interest rates will be raised this year causing a general downturn in the markets, social media stocks appeared to be an exception yesterday.

We’re always looking for trends to exploit for options trading, and should Facebook, Inc. FB, Twitter, Inc. TWTR, and LinkedIn Corp. LNKD continue their hot hand this week, we could see some nice action in the following contracts:

FB Weekly $84-86 Calls
TWTR Weekly $50-52 Calls
LNKD Weekly $260-265 Calls


Vascular Biogenics, Inc. VBLT

VBLT is another gapper this morning that has surged in the premarket following the company Q4 earnings release. The stock briefly spiked to its 50DMA of 8.65 in early trading, and appears as if it will open in the 6.50’s.

We will look to see VBLT re-break the $7-mark once the session kicks off, as there is a large gap on the chart as we point out below, the filling of which would make for some highly notable gains. It’s definitely a stock we want to keep on our radar as we cruise through mid-week.


Extended Watchlist:
KFX, FXCM, ONCY, BLRX, MRNS, GRPN

Blue Horseshoe Stocks: ACGX News, RSHC, Options

Alliance Creative Group, Inc. ACGX

The first thing we want to point out this morning is the exclusive interview we conducted with ACGX executive Paul Sorkin on our sister site, StockTradersTalk.com. It will be available later today, and it gives an in-depth look into all of the exciting things going on with ACGX.

As noted in the corresponding PR below, to see the interview, simply navigate over to StockTradersTalk.com at noon. Don’t miss it! 

CHICAGO, IL–(Marketwired – February 09, 2015) – Alliance Creative Group, Inc. (http://www.AllianceCreativeGroup.com) (ACGX), a product development agency with a fully integrated customer engagement campaign platform, COO and General Counsel, Paul Sorkin, will be a featured guest in an interview today at 12pm EST.

An archived recorded version can be found on the homepage of Stock Traders Talk at http://www.stocktraderstalk.com/ following the interview.


RadioShack Corp. RSHCQ

Following its delisting from the NYSE last week, Radio Shack(formerly RSH) now trades OTC under the new symbol, RSHC(Q). Even amid the company’s financial woes, we had some success with RSH last year.

We’ll be looking at RSHCQ as it comes up off of a bottom of .09 reached on Thursday. The stock began to bounce and Friday, maintained support at the .12 mark. It came in conjunction with the news that 1,700 RadioShack stores were set to begin liquidation-style closing sales as part of a paring down of the company’s brick-and-mortar businesses.

What we’ll be looking for from here is for RSHCQ to register higher highs and higher lows to confirm the uptrend which began on Friday. Current resistance is sitting at .15, .35 and .41.


Options Trading

Twitter, Inc. TWTR
&
LinkedIn Corp. LNKD

We’ve made several great options calls in the last couple of weeks thanks in large part due to the predictable nature of trading action during earnings season.

On Friday, we noted our interest in TWTR $45 and LNKD $263 Calls- TWTR closed at  $48.01, and LNKD closed over $263.40, so anyone trading either set of contracts would have been able to walk away with substantial profits on the day as those strike prices were pushed deep into the money.

Amazon.com, Inc. AMZN

Back on January 30th, we were talking about some AMZN weekly calls, and in that same report we offered up a longer-term idea, specifically the 02/20 $350 Calls. It turned out to be an amazing idea, with those contracts going for as little as 5.58 that day, and running all the way up to $30 last week as AMZN has made its way to $370-range. That marked a move up of 438% inside of a week!


Extended Watchlist:
SPRZ, CTIX, IOSA(merger news)

Blue Horseshoe Stocks: Fresh Options Ideas & More

Gilead Sciences, Inc. GILD – Options

We’ve been hot on the trail of GILD Calls since Wednesday, when we brought forth the idea of using the $97 and $98 Calls to take advantage of GILD recovery from a beating it had taken following a mixed-result earnings call. Both sets of contracts brought us the chance to make major gains that day, with the 97’s and 98’s making moves of 226% and 253% respectively.

We reaffirmed our interest in those same calls in yesterday’s premarket report, and for the second day in a row, we were extremely pleased with the intraday opportunities afforded to us.

The $97 Calls, after trading as low as .79, would go on to set a daily high of 2.20, a 178% rip. The $98 Calls went on a run from 1.27 to as much as 3.05, a 140% increase.

Cheers go out to anyone else who was able to take advantage of our meticulous coverage of this excellent play this mid-week. It’s just the latest in a long line of great options trading ideas we’ve had so far in 2015, so even if you’ve missed everything up to this point, you’re not too late, because we have no intention of slowing down now!


Fresh Options Ideas

Twitter, Inc. TWTR

Twitter had an earnings beat post-market yesterday, and as a result the stock is gapping up significantly this morning. Our next potential area of interest is going to be with the TWTR $45 Calls. (Last Traded @ 1.00)

LinkedIn Corp. LNKD

Another social media earnings beater was LNKD, and in this case we’re going to be looking at Calls in the $260-263 range.  ($260’s last trade: 2.32 –  $262.50’s last trade: 2.00)


Rich Pharmaceuticals, Inc. RCHA

In addition to yesterday’s successful options plays was a stock we also mentioned in our morning report that went on to behave exactly as we predicted.

After making a huge run that topped 1700% the day prior, we mentioned our expectation that RCHA would pull back off of its extreme highs and offer us a subsequent bounceplay, and indeed it did.

The stock came down as low as .0091 before recovering to a daily high of .019. That was good for gains of up to 109% on the rebound.


Extended Watchlist:
P, GPRO, CRGP, ENZR, PEII(Potential Bottom Bouncer)