Good Start to the Trading Week, New Plays

Solid Start to the Week: 

We got off on a good foot for Monday’s premarket report, despite a real lack of big name earnings reporters. The only two potential plays that really jumped out to us yesterday did, however, post some nice double bag moves for us on the session.

We had signaled our interest in tracking the ARLP 02/17 $22.50-25 Calls, and the GEHC Weekly $70-68.50 Puts, and we got some very nice movement from each set of ideas on the day. Today’s earnings plays deal with some much bigger names, so our week should continue along an interesting trajectory. Here’s the breakdown of the gains that were possible through yesterday’s targets:

ARLP 02/17 $22.50-25 Calls
$28:
 .48-1.05 (+119%)
$27: .10-.20 (+100%)
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GEHC Weekly $70-68.50 Puts 

$70: .30-.60 (+100%)
$69: .17-.35 (+106%)
$68.50: .15-.30 (+100%)


Fresh Options Ideas:
MCD Weekly $267.50-265 Calls
UPS Weekly $177.50-182.50 Calls
WHR Weekly $152.50-157.50 Calls
PFE Weekly $44-43 Calls


Extended Watchlist:
MSGM, CFRX, HILS, CNTX, PBLA, FOXO, GTII, CORZQ, DOLLF, ABML, PMETF, VPLM

Major Movers from Friday, Fresh Ideas

Friday’s Options Runners: 

We are ready to kick off another great week of trading, and as always, our first order of business is going to be to rehash our ideas from Friday and see what kind of noise they made for us. We were right down the middle with two bullish and two bearish ideas. The markets posted mainly a positive session, but that didn’t stop our shorts from recording solid gains as well.

Our fresh targets for the day were the TSLA Weekly $161-163 Calls, the AXP Weekly $162.50-165 Calls, the CL 02/17 72.50-70 Puts and the INTC Weekly $28-27 Puts. It appears we may have erred in the strikes on our TSLA Calls, with the $162.50’s being the only contract set in the range we listed, so we’ll just list the gains made there, which were quite considerable. The rest of our ideas also posted some excellent runs for the session:

TSLA Weekly $161-163 Calls
$162.50:
 1.55-18.05 (+1064%)
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AXP Weekly $162.50-165 Calls
$162.50: 3.55-12.60 (+255%)
$165: 2.01-10.65 (+430%)
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CL 02/17 72.50-70 Puts
$72.50:
 .92-2.06 (+124%)
$70: .35-.90 (+157%)
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INTC Weekly $28-27 Puts
$28: .14-.52 (+271%)
$27: .01-.05 (+400%)


Fresh Options Ideas
ARLP 02/17 $22.50-25 Calls
GEHC Weekly $70-68.50 Puts 


Extended Watchlist:
BBAU, GMVD, GNS, PBTS, BSFC, FRGT, ATER, APE, GTII, CORZQ, FRFR

Massive Options Success, Fresh Plays

Six for Six Thursday: 

We have a large dump of options winners to share with you this morning from yesterday’s premarket report. We followed up Wednesday’s pack of five options ideas with a fresh group of SIX, and swept the board, with each and every one of them producing intraday gain chances for us.

We were looking at the SPY 01/26 $401-402 Calls, the TSLA Weekly $150-155 Calls, the LVS Weekly $55-57 Calls, the SHW 02/17 $230-220 Puts, the IBM 01/27 $139-137 Puts and the NEE 02/17 $75 Puts. There was success to be had at every turn:

SPY 01/26 $401-402 Calls
$401:
 .80-3.88 (+385%)
$402: .49-2.90 (+492%)
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TSLA Weekly $150-155 Calls
$150: 6.10-10.57 (+73%)
$152.50: 4.40-8.24 (+87%)
$155: 3.00-6.11 (+102%)
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LVS Weekly $55-57 Calls
$55: 1.18-3.71 (+214%)
$56: .55-2.77 (+403%)
$57: .25-1.88 (+652%)
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SHW 02/17 $230-220 Puts
$230: 6.57-9.89 (+51%)
$220: 3.16-5.00 (+58%)
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IBM 01/27 $139-137 Puts
$139: 1.70-6.05 (+256%)
$138: 1.07-5.00 (+367%)
$137: .84-4.06 (+383%)
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NEE 02/17 $75 Puts
$75: 1.20-1.65 (+38%)


Fresh Options Ideas:
TSLA Weekly $161-163 Calls*
AXP Weekly $162.50-165 Calls*
CL 02/17 72.50-70 Puts
INTC Weekly $28-27 Puts*

**Please don’t attempt to trade options on their day of expiration unless you are an experienced trader with access to disposable funds!


Extended Watchlist:
BZFD, RDHL, AUVI, AKAN, QNCX, TCBP, REPO, MGUY, AMIH, SKYE, DSHK, VMSI