Month: July 2023

Friday Recap, Fresh Options Ideas

Friday’s Movers:

We got along quite well as we closed out the short trading week on Friday with a slate of four possible options plays, and saw gains ranging from good to great in three of those four targets. The markets got off to a bullish start, and after lunch hour, reversed track and fell into the close. That provided plenty of intraday activity to facilitate some very nice upswings in our daily targets.

We had the BABA Weekly $85-87 Calls, the RIVN Weekly $21.50-22.50 Calls, and the LEVI 07/21 $14-13 Puts all come through with the following intraday runs:

BABA Weekly $85-87 Calls
$85: 1.60-6.50 (+306%)
$86: .99-5.50 (+456%)
$87: .57-4.55 (+698%)
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RIVN Weekly $21.50-22.50 Calls
$21.50: 1.21-4.10 (+239%)
$22: .84-3.60 (+328%)
$22.50: .55-3.00 (+445%)
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LEVI 07/21 $14-13 Puts
$14: .55-.91 (+65%)
$13: .15-.25 (+67%)

Fresh Options Ideas:
HELE Weekly $121-124 Calls
LIN 07/21 $360-370 Calls
PLCE 08/18 $25 Calls


Gorilla Technology Group Inc. (NASDAQ:GRRR)

We also saw a decent intraday move out of GRRR, which we tagged in Friday’s extended watchlist. The stock ran from a low of 3.39 on up to a daily high of 5.79 which represented a rise of 71% on the day.

Extended Watchlist:
MOB, TTOO, NBTX, ALPP, GOEV, BANL, GTII, BDPT, QIND

Wrapping Up the Short Trading Week with New Ideas

Options Reviews:

In an extremely rare occurrence, neither of the targets we were looking at in yesterday’s report turned in worthwhile performances on the day. We really can’t recall the last time that happened, if ever, but as we always say, nobody can win them all. Instead of reviewing those, we have updates on a handful of longer term plays that we’ve recently flagged.

We initially selected the PDCO 07/21 $31-33 Calls in our report on June 21st, the KBH 07/21 $50 Puts in the following day’s report, and the PAYX 07/21 $110-115 Calls on the morning of June 29th. Here are the figures on the upswings and new highs we’ve seen from these plays this week.

PDCO 07/21 $31-33 Calls
$31: .15-2.35 (+1467%)
$32: .10-1.50 (+1400%)
$33: .15-.85 (+467%)
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KBH 07/21 $50 Puts
$50: .08-2.05 (+2462%)
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PAYX 07/21 $110-115 Calls
$110: 1.76-4.40 (+150%)
$115: .30-1.17 (+290%)

Fresh Options Ideas:
BABA Weekly $85-87 Calls*
RIVN Weekly $21.50-22.50 Calls*
LEVI 07/21 $14-13 Puts
SNOW 08/04 $170-165 Puts

*Trading options contracts on their day of expiration should only be attempted by experienced traders

Extended Watchlist:
GRRR, PWM, TTOO, ZVSA, TOP, CSTL, BJDX, NUZE, ECGR

Clean Sweep on Options, New Plays

Options Recaps:

We came in fresh off of the 4th of July holiday yesterday morning, and despite having zero big name earnings reporters to work with, we still put together a slate of four potential options plays that all turned in good performances on the day. Today is going to be similarly challenging in that regard, but as always we’ll strive to ID whatever is worth a look.

In yesterday’s case, we swept the board with all four of our selections. They were the SPY 07/05 $441-442 Calls, the AMD Weekly $115-116 Calls, the DUK 08/18 $90-95 Calls, and the RIVN Weekly $20.50-21 Calls. Here is the breakdown of the moves they made for us on the session:

SPY 07/05 $441-442 Calls
$441: 1.46-2.87 (+97%)
$442: .66-1.75 (+165%)

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AMD Weekly $115-116 Calls
$90: 1.26-1.62 (+29%)
$90: .89-1.19 (+34%)
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DUK 08/18 $90-95 Calls
$90: 2.70-3.81 (+41%)
$90: .40-1.10 (+175%)
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RIVN Weekly $20.50-21 Calls
$20.50: .25-.59 (+136%)
$21: .17-.39 (+112%)

Fresh Options Ideas:
AFL 07/14 $71-70 Puts
INDB 08/18 $45 Calls

Extended Watchlist:
MULN, BTAI, CRBU, MCOM, VYBE, BGLC, APTY