SPY Calls Break Out, Fresh Plays

Options Recaps: 

On the options trading front, we are making our way through the earnings drought as best we can recently, and doing a fairly good job of it if we say so ourselves. We’re in for another week-plus of this, with the days of having plenty of earnings reporters on the calendar set to return on Monday the 18th.

For now, we’ll keep plugging away and taking whatever we can get, and for yesterday’s report that came in the form of the SPY 07/06 $380-382 Calls which absolutely ripped, and the RFP 07/15 $17.50-20 Calls. Additionally, we’ve got some new highs to report in the GIS 07/15 $70-72.50 Calls which we alerted on last Wednesday.

SPY 07/06 $380-382 Calls
$380:
 1.45-5.92 (+308%)
$381: 1.05-4.85 (+362%)
$382: .67-3.85 (+477%)
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RFP 07/15 $17.50-20 Calls 

$17.50: 2.80-3.05 (+9%)
$20: .45-.70 (+56%)
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GIS 07/15 $70-72.50 Calls
$70: 
2.50-6.63 (+165%)
$72.50: 1.05-4.10 (+290%)


Fresh Options Ideas:
HELE 07/15 $160-150 Puts
SLP Weekly $55-50 Puts 


OTC Updates: 

We have a couple of OTC stocks that have been mentioned in recent extended watchlists to update readers on this morning as well. We always try to flag potential plays on the lower exchanges in our watchlists, and very often, it bears significant fruit.

We mentioned HMBL on Tuesday morning and the stock has posted an intraweek run from .048-.0992 which marks an upswing of 107%, and this past Thursday we signaled EMGE which has made a rip-roaring move of 273% from .0082-.0306 in just a week’s time.


Extended Watchlist: 
USEA, ALNA, TYDE, IINN, ANVS, ACRX, OZSC, PLPL, HWKE, BMIX

Blue Horseshoe Stocks: ZYNE, LLNKF Recaps

LiteLink Technologies, Inc. (OTCMKTS:LLNKF)(CSE:LLT) – Update

When we profiled LLNKF in a special report yesterday morning, we mentioned that the stock was ‘dripping with upside potential‘, and we were essentially proven right immediately. The stock traded more volume than the two prior sessions combined (23X the 30-day average) as it ran from a low of .1157 on up to .197, which represented an intraday rise of 70%

LLNKF closed just a couple of ticks below its high of day, at .195, and anytime we see a stock do so, especially with increased volume and buying pressure, we definitely want to be on the lookout for a possible continuation of momentum. We’ll look for this play to register higher highs and higher lows and continue this bullish uptrend.


Zynerba Pharmaceuticals, Inc. ZYNE – Recap

We are going to revisit ZYNE this morning, a stock that we have been tracking since back in December, with a followup at the end of January, as well as another just a couple of weeks ago on April 30th. Throughout that period of time, ZYNE has appreciated by leaps and bounds.

Starting from the low we observed shortly following our December alert, at 2.75, the stock has run all the way up to an impressive new high of 15.98 this week. That marks an overall move of 481% since we’ve been watching this play. Readers who may have only caught the most recent report on April 30th, have still seen a range of 9.57-15.98-  a very respectable upswing of 67%


Fresh Options Ideas:
PINS Weekly $27-25.50 Puts*
DE Weekly $140-138 Puts*

*As always, we urge readers not to trade weekly options on a Friday if they are not advanced-level traders with access to disposable funds.


Extended Watchlist:
ADOM, GSAT, GEVO, OCUL, ACRX

Blue Horseshoe Stocks: TSN Recap & More

Tyson Foods Inc. TSN – Update

We started the week off yesterday by formulating some options ideas for TSN. The company had a mixed earnings call, with a beat on Q3 profits, and a miss on sales. We pointed to the technical setup of the chart as our primary reason for being interested, and as it turns out we called the bottom perfectly.

We came up with a short and longer term set of ideas, and while we may yet come back to the long terms, we are looking at the weekly calls we designated today after some solid performances. Those were the TSN Weekly $58-59.50 Calls, and all but the $58’s produced double-bag gains on the session.

$58.50 Calls – Range: .90-2.25 – Max Gain: 150%
$59 Calls – Range: .80-1.68 – Max Gain: 110%
$59.50 Calls – Range: .75-1.50 – Max Gain: 100%



Fresh Options Ideas

Our success with options over the past several weeks has been so pronounced, we see absolutely no reason to stop now, especially being in the thick of another earnings season. We’ve got another pair of earning related options ideas to bring to the table today.

Etsy, Inc. ETSY Weekly $40-50 Calls
Zillow Group, Inc. Z Weekly $48-49 Calls


Extended Watchlist:
TIS, NPTN, RNG, ACRX, MNK, EKSO, VCEL, TWLO