Blue Horseshoe Stocks: ZAZA Update & More

ZaZa Energy Corp. ZAZA

We tagged ZAZA last Thursday on the heels of an earnings beat, and at the time, we mentioned that we’d put the stock on watch for a classic dip-and-rip scenario.

While it took more than a full session for it to settle back and find support, it did so on Friday, bouncing off of the 2.87-mark. Yesterday ZAZA continued to trend off of that bottom and reached a subsequent high of 3.60. For us, that marks a three-day turnaround on ZAZA with possible gains of up to 25%

In order for us to remain interested in ZAZA, we’ll need to see support hold at or above the 50DMA of 3.24.



Geron Corp. GERN

We also want to make mention of GERN, which we put on watch Friday after the company announced it had licensed its cancer treatment to a unit of Johnson & Johnson in a contract that could reportedly be worth up to $935 million.

After seeing a low of 2.72 from GERN initially on Friday, the stock began to rebound up to yesterday’s high of 3.10. (+14%) and appears to be gapping up slightly in the premarket today.

Folks might be interested in tuning in to the live webcast of GERN presenting at the Stifel 2014 Healthcare Conference in New York,  NY today at 1:50 p.m. EST. Webcast link can be found at GERN’s Website, HERE >>>


Gainers From Yesterday’s Watchlist

NV5 Holdings, Inc. NVEE
NVEE made a decent move during yesterday’s session, trading in a positive range from 10.60-12.40, offering up the chance for a 19% intraday gain.

Amicus Therapeutics, Inc. FOLD
Another modest yet notable mover came in the form of FOLD, which increased from a low of 6.22 and reached 7.10, a move of 14%


Extended Watchlist:
JNUG, AUY, DNDN, UEC, ONVO

Blue Horseshoe Stocks: Recap on RPRX, JNUG, Others

Repros Therapeutics, Inc. RPRX

The primary attraction to come off of our report on Friday was definitely RPRX. The stock had one heck of a solid session, building steadily all day long. It traded from a morning low of 7.66, and reached as high as 10.25 just prior to the close, and did so on volume which exceeded the 3-month average by nearly eight times. That’s a really impressive run from a stock in this price range.

We originally caught RPRX on October 17th after catching the stock gapping down to 52-week lows, and measuring from the low we observed subsequent to that report (5.97), Friday’s high represented an overall increase of 71%

The company is slated to release earnings today >> View Earnings Calendar


Direxion Daily Jr Gld Mnrs Bull 3X ETF (JNUG)

Also jumping off of Friday’s extended watchlist with a good showing was JNUG. We seemed to have timed our mention of this ETF quite well, with gold prices having bounced off of their annual low on Thursday, it set the stage for JNUG to make a respectable intraday day for us.

It traded in a range from 3.59-4.44, gaining as much as 24% on considerable volume, to the tune of 4.5X it’s 3-month average.

JNUG could be an interesting play moving forward providing the rebound in the price of gold is sustained, so that will be one of the things we’ll be interested to watch for as we kick off a new trading week.


Dendreon Corp. DNDN

DNDN is taking a massive premarket pounding this morning in the wake of the company’s filing for Chapter 11 protection. It’s worth noting, despite the forthcoming restructuring, the company will continue to produce and distribute its PROVENGE immunotherapy treatment, and has declared that it “has significant liquidity to support all of its operations during the restructuring process, with approximately $100 million of cash, cash equivalents and investments on hand as of November 7, 2014” >> View PR

Because of the nature of the situation, we’ll be exercising extreme caution, but we still want to monitor the stock for a bottom and subsequent bounceplay opportunities that could come as a result.


Extended Watchlist:
ACHN, IBIO, ARQL, DVAX, UEC, OIBR