AMGN Amgen to buy HZNP for $27.8 BillionAMGN Amgen to buy HZNP Horizon Therapeutics for about $27.8 billion.
This huge spend could trigger a selloff in AMGN Amgen stock after earnings.
It`s speculative, but looking at the AMGN Amgen options chain ahead of earnings , I would buy the $240 strike price Puts with
2023-2-17 expiration date for about
$2.75 premium.
If the options turn out to be profitable Before the earnings release, I would sell at least 50%.
Looking forward to read your opinion about it.
1AMGN trade ideas
AMGN | Good Time to Enter | BounceAmgen Inc. discovers, develops, manufactures, and delivers human therapeutics worldwide. It focuses on inflammation, oncology/hematology, bone health, cardiovascular disease, nephrology, and neuroscience areas. The company's products include Enbrel to treat plaque psoriasis, rheumatoid arthritis, and psoriatic arthritis; Neulasta that reduces the chance of infection due a low white blood cell count in patients cancer; Prolia to treat postmenopausal women with osteoporosis; Xgeva for skeletal-related events prevention; Otezla for the treatment of adult patients with plaque psoriasis, psoriatic arthritis, and oral ulcers associated with Behcet's disease; Aranesp to treat a lower-than-normal number of red blood cells and anemia; KYPROLIS to treat patients with relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma; and Repatha, which reduces the risks of myocardial infarction, stroke, and coronary revascularization. It also markets Nplate, Vectibix, MVASI, Parsabiv, EPOGEN, KANJINTI, BLINCYTO, Aimovig, EVENITY, AMGEVITATM, Sensipar/Mimpara, NEUPOGEN, IMLYGIC, Corlanor, and AVSOLA. Amgen Inc. serves healthcare providers, including physicians or their clinics, dialysis centers, hospitals, and pharmacies. It distributes its products through pharmaceutical wholesale distributors, as well as direct-to-consumer channels. It has collaboration agreements with Novartis Pharma AG; UCB; Bayer HealthCare LLC; BeiGene, Ltd.; Eli Lilly and Company; Datos Health; and Verastem, Inc. to evaluate VS-6766 in combination with lumakrastm (Sotorasib) in patients with KRAS G12C-mutant non-small cell lung cancer. It has an agreement with Kyowa Kirin Co., Ltd. to jointly develop and commercialize KHK4083, a Phase 3-ready anti-OX40 fully human monoclonal antibody for the treatment of atopic dermatitis and other autoimmune diseases; and research and development collaboration with Neumora Therapeutics, Inc. and Plexium, Inc. Amgen Inc. was incorporated in 1980 and is headquartered in Thousand Oaks, California.
AMGN - Stock 2 WatchAMGN looking strong following recent breakout. Like it long on a deeper p/b into the green the box. May require aggressive entry at the top of box as that would be a gap fill. Tighter stop would be a close below the green box. Larger stop for longer term holds would be a close below the 618 Fib. Targets would be recent high and then Fib extensions. Entry requires support from broader market.
Amgen Pauses After Breaking OutBig pharma hasn’t gotten the memo about there being a bear market. Just look at Amgen.
The biotechnology stock jumped to a new record high on November 8. The breakout followed a strong earnings report and data about its olpasiran cholesterol drug.
It’s consolidated in a tight range since then, demonstrated by the narrowing of Bollinger Bandwidth. That may create the potential for prices to expand if the uptrend continues.
AMGN has made lower highs since then while holding roughly $280. The resulting triangle could provide signals for traders eying a breakout.
Third, the 21-day exponential moving average has come up from below. The stock has tested it last week and this week, but quickly responded each time. That could also suggest an uptrend is taking shape.
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AMGN - potential short breakout from horizontal supportbroke horizontal support
Setup:
NASDAQ:AMGN 1D chart
enter with limit order when price pulls back - EP @ low of range
SL above last pullback
TP @ previous lows of Oct/Dec '21
R/R 3.7
⚠️ watch out for potential supports @ previous levels of resistance or support (marked with orange flags)
> 1:1 when hitting first support, 2:1 when hitting second, so trade should be risk free by then
Maybe Not the Best time to go Short/RectanglePrice is below the Bands.
Rectangle and price hit the bottom trendline and it shot up a bit for now
If it breaks down, targets in orange type below the rectangle structure.
No recommendation.
This pattern is neutral until a trendline is broken.
Probably will be broken, just not today perhaps
Amgen Could Be ToppySometimes in a bear market a handful of stocks remain closer to their highs before rolling over. Amgen (AMGN) could face such a condition.
The main pattern on today’s chart are the candlesticks of July 8, 11 and 12. The drugmaker attempted to push above $249 but each time closed below that level. Also notice how this price area roughly matches the closing price before the high-volume bearish gap on April 28.
The result could be a lower high. This may indicate sellers are back in control, especially with a potential double top near $258.
Next, stochastics are dipping from an overbought condition.
Finally you have the 50-day simple moving average (SMA), which AMGN held on Thursday. A break under this level could make traders expect a retest of the recent lows below $230.
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AMGN: higher highs and higher lowsA price action above 234.55 supports a bullish trend direction.
Crossing below this level will negate the bullish stance.
Remains above its 200-day simple moving average.
Upside price momentum supports the bullish trend.
RSI leaves enough room for further upside price potential.
AMGN: A High Probability Buy Setup Amgen Inc. has been trending up since December last year. We can observe that price has recently reached a higher high at the resistance level of 258.00. Therefore, we are only looking for buy entries for this stock.
258.00 is a very strong resistance level; we can see from the past that prices have rejected more than 9 times from this level. After rejections, prices retraced but eventually rose again to retest this level multiple times. Last week, price gapped down from this resistance level, dropping back to the trend line. Therefore, this gives us a great opportunity to buy the pullback.
Entry Criteria:
We can observe from the past price movement that when the price touched the current ascending trend line, a gap up immediately was formed, followed by a strong bullish momentum sending the price back to the previous high. Therefore, during the next few days, we will be looking for a gap up from the trend line. Then we will place our buy stop orders to capture the bullish momentum.
This is a high probability buy setup because many factors support another bullish impulsive movement which could potentially send the price back to retest the recent high.