IOVA has doubled in February and broke out above its volume profile high volume area about one week ago as it runs to earnings. Since it settled down two days ago into a relative side- ways consolidation. I will take a long trade here for a pre-earnings play to presume that the buying and bullish momentum will resume nearly immediately.
MRNA focuses on vaccine research and development and we are in the flu season an COVID is lurking in the shadows and trying to make a comback. It had an excellent earnings report and forward guidance. On the 60 minute chart, price has bounced up from a test of the anchored VWAP and is at the level of the first upper VWAP while in side the high volume area...
LABU on a 240-minute chart has been in a trend up gaining 100% in 3 months. Both the fast and slow ( green and red) are above the 50 level. Biotechnology is expected to be a hot subsector this year as healthcare recovered further from the COVID pandemic anything from startups to big pharma- from vaccines to new drugs for diabetes, liver disease and...
NVAX on a 120 minute chart demonstrates a trend down in the past month after a period of consolidation producing the POC line on the volume profile. The MACD shows some bullish divergence. The volume profile has high volume nodes at 4.0 and 5.0 separated by a relative volume void. NVAX fell quickly through that void. It can just as easily rise through it....
NVAX on the 15 minute chart has been compressing price action volatility into a symmetrical triangle. It in now in a breakout of the triangle and in the process when from undervalued on Monday to the upper trendline and then down to the support trendline and then up again. It passed through the volume profile and its high volume area. In short, it has bullish...
NRIX , on the 15 minute chart is experiencing increase volatility and volume now two days out from its earnings report. It printed a "big ass" green engulfing candle to finish the week. The MACD with zero lag shows a bullish inflection in the lines On the daily chart, price fell about 25% in 2023. earnings have been both line beats but the negative cash flow...
CARA is here on a 15 minute chart. The earnings report is due March 4th. The price action is already demonstrative of bullish momentum. CARA rose 60% this past week. It is still on sale at 95% off its all time high. Spiking buying volume, and so an upgoing Price Vulme Trend and squeeze release triggers on lower time frames all have CARA moving well prior to...
RZLT is a biotechnology company which has products in clinical development. Many are aware that means rigorous clinical trials before an FDA approval and a product line that generates earnings. Stock price is more about growth and potential more than anything else. That said the chart looks good and I sense there is momentum heading into earnings in the next...
SRZN has had good momentum. It has no revenues. Clinical trials but a lot of cash. SRZN has advanced trials underway for a product to treat alcoholic hepatitis presumably settling it down before it becomes irreversible cirrhosis (only for patients who are alcohol-free) and also useful for liver metabolic disorders from a genetic basis. SRZN has been...
On the weekly chart a LABU / LABD ratio is plotted with anchored VWAP bands and a volume profile overlaid. I wanted to analyze this to affirm the highest of prospects for the Biotechnology sector for 2024. LABU is triple leveraged Up while LABD is the inverse Down. A good unleveraged biotech ETF is XBI. The chart shows LABU in a VWAP band and breakout ...
... for an 81.63 debit. Comments: 32.1% 30-Day IV. My general preference for ETF IV is >35%, but there isn't much currently there in my ETF screener, and I'm already in a GDX position: TQQQ (52.3%); USO (38.1%); GDXJ (35.0%). Buying a one lot and selling the -75 delta call against to emulate a 25 delta short put with "built-in" defense of the position via...
FGEN has been uptrending for two weeks. In November's earnings it beat on revenue and burned less cash than projected. Another earnings report is impending. On the 30 minute chart, price has pumped 250%. The volume is okay but is not showing a rise and the price volume trend is flat. This is an unusual pattern. The mass index indicator shows hints of ...
XBI, the S&Ps Biotech ETF has been ranging nicely just below a major pivot that has acted as resistance for over two years. Bounced off the 20 EMA on the daily and made a beautiful candle on Friday. Anything that happens below $95 must be taken with a grain of salt, but it looks like it wants to breakout and flip that resistance pivot to support.
INBS crush earnings and went parabolic on an earnings beat. Basically, revenues fell but with belt-tightening and good CEO actions it bled less cash than expected. The tourniquet is working. The post-earnings pump was followed by a flush to the mid-Fib 0.5 support. Trader's got their reward and called it a weekend before lunch. The chop index fell into the...
ZBH is a big global medical device company. It is old school. Aluminum titanium polymers, plates screws wires. Hollywood stars are familiar as it makes the devices for leg lengthening surgery. ( shortening is easy, lengthening not so much) I am familiar because in the past I have served as a consultant for this company. It business is mainly orthopedic elective...
... for a 74.27 debit. Comments: Adding a "rung" to my XBI position here .... . Selling the -75 delta call and buying a one lot to emulate a 25 short put to take advantage of IV skew in calls (40.2% at the 77 strike on the call side; 33.0% on the put). 2.73 max profit on BPE of 74.27; 3.68% ROC as a function of BPE at max; 1.84% at 50% max.
RYTM did a 120% run in November and December and then pivoted to start the year. It competes in the anti-obesity drug space which is all the rage right now and has snack food manufactures freaking out. The retrace was a shallow one in a sign of strength finding support at the 0.382 retracement level and then pivoting into a reversal in the past week. The dual...
MGNX as a biotech company makes antibodies against certain cancers. The antibody is tagged to chemotherapy molecules and then heads off looking for cancer cells to which it has a strong affinity. So much for the science. MGNX just got upgraded and the new target is $ 16.00 about 25% upside. Biotech and healthcare are projected hot sectors this year. On the...