Options Recaps, 4 New Chances

Thursday’s Movers:

We carried on our good fortunes yesterday, with our premarket report. for Thursday including four potential plays, two to the bullish side, and two to the bearish. We saw intraday upswings from all of our targets, but with the way things went for the markets, ultimately it was the bears who posted the more impressive numbers on the day.

Our interests for the session were the META Weekly $512.50-517.50 Calls, the SPY 08/01 $552-553 Calls, the ARM Weekly $130-128 Puts, and the QCOM Weekly $182.50-177.50 Puts. These were the daily performances in each of them:

META Weekly $512.50-517.50 Calls
$512.50:
 7.38-16.62 (+125%)
$515: 6.21-14.78 (+138%)
$517.50: 5.29-12.76 (+141%)
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SPY 08/01 $552-553 Calls
$552:
 2.26-3.70 (+64%)
$553: 1.68-2.96 (+76%)
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ARM Weekly $130-128 Puts
$130:
 1.86-12.00 (+545%)
$129: 1.68-10.00 (+495%)
$128: 1.35-9.35 (+593%)
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QCOM Weekly $182.50-177.50 Puts
$182.50:
 7.91-20.95 (+165%)
$180: 4.80-18.76 (+291%)
$177.50: 3.34-15.84 (+374%)


Fresh Options Ideas:
INTC Weekly $23-22 Puts*
SPY 08/02 $536-534 Puts*
AAPL Weekly $220-215 Puts*
AMZN Weekly $170-165 Puts*

*Only experienced traders should attempt to trade contracts on their day of expiration


Extended Watchlist: 
XCUR, VSEE, AKAN, MKDW, BJDX, ADAP

4 Fresh Options Plays & More

Wednesday Review:  

It was a rough outing yesterday due largely in part to a horrendous response to the Fed meeting. Things remained mostly level until 2PM, and thereafter went into absolute freefall. As a result, just one of the two ideas we formulated for yesterday’s premarket report bore immediate results. Not an ideal set of circumstances or outcome, but we press forward as always!

As for our target that did prevail,  we were looking at the GIS 10/20 $65-67.50 Calls, and here are the modest yet respectable intraday moves we saw out of those:

GIS 10/20 $65-67.50 Calls
$65:
 1.37-2.04 (+49%)
$67.50: .39-.75 (+92%)


Fresh Options Ideas:
FDX Weekly $260-265 Calls
KBH Weekly $47.50-46 Puts
SPLK Weekly $140-143 Calls
SPY 09/22 $432-433 Calls


Bluejay Diagnostics Inc. (NASDAQ:BJDX) – Recap: 

We also had a decent little mover jump off of yesterday’s extended watchlist, as BJDX underwent a gap-and-go scenario. The stock ran from a daily low of 4.20 and shares ended up changing hands for as much as 5.38. That works out to an intraday run of 28%


Extended Watchlist:
LIFW, NIR, NEPT, UPTD, MURF, KZR, RYPPF, CLNV

Tuesday’s Runners, Wednesday’s Watchlist

Tuesday’s Twin Targets:  

As we were mentioning in yesterday morning’s premarket report, we’re pretty thin on earnings reports from big name companies with multi-billion dollar market caps, which are typically our favorite catalysts for the kind of intraday activity that is useful to daytraders. This relative dry period will unfortunately persist until the back end of October, but, as we did yesterday, we’ll continue to hash out whatever remaining targets look best on any given morning.

Yesterday we formed a pair of potential plays, the APOG 10/20 $50-55 Calls and the DAVA 10/20 $45 Puts, and they both exhibited some nice moves for us on the day, with a double-bagger coming out of both chains. Here’s what we were working with:

APOG 10/20 $50-55 Calls
$50:
 1.70-2.50 (+47%)
$55: .05-.30 (+100%)
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DAVA 10/20 $45 Puts

$45: 15-.30 (+100%).


Fresh Options Ideas:
GIS 10/20 $65-67.50 Calls
EMN 10/20 $80 Calls


Extended Watchlist:
RVNC, EBET, EXAI, RNAZ, HSTO, FRTX, BJDX, TGGI, RTSL, 

Run of Success Continues, 4 New Earnings Ideas

Another Beautiful Options Trading Session:

We kept things moving along at a solid pace yesterday, with our trend of successful options ideas being extended yet another day. Out of four potential ideas in our premarket report which included a total of twelve sets of contracts/possible strike points, only one set of that dozen failed to produce notable intraday upswings.

We’d call that pretty high, accuracy-wise, and that’s what we expect from ourselves on a daily basis. Yesterday’s plays were the, the AMD Weekly $117-119 Calls, the HUM Weekly $475-485 Calls, the EA Weekly $132-130 Puts, and the EMR Weekly $94-96 Calls, and here’s the rundown of the intraday pops they recorded on the session:

AMD Weekly $117-119 Calls
$117: 
.23-.43 (+87%)
$118: .19-.33 (+74%)
$119: .15-.25 (+66%)
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HUM Weekly $475-485 Calls
$475: 
7.00-14.40 (+106%)
$480: 4.10-10.20 (+149%)
$485: 2.41-6.70 (+178%)
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EMR Weekly $94-96 Calls
$94: N/A
$95: .55-1.25 (+127%)
$96: .30-.55 (+83%)

EA Weekly $132-130 Puts
$132: 3.99-5.50 (+38%)
$131: 3.17-4.28 (+35%)
$130: 1.55-4.40 (+255%)


Fresh Options Ideas:
PYPL Weekly $69-67 Puts
QCOM Weekly $119-118 Puts
SHOP Weekly $62-61 Puts
BUD Weekly $57-58 Calls



T2 Biosystems, Inc. (NASDAQ:TTOO) – Recap

In our daily extended watchlists, we typically include a mix of stocks from the OTC as well as the upper exchanges, and TTOO is a NASDAQ play that we’ve been tracking over the past couple of weeks. Our most recent tag of the stock came on July 21st, and since that day we have witnessed a run from a low of .0972 up to this morning’s premarket high of .4095, which works out to a rise of 321%


Extended Watchlist:
AHRO, HGEN, ATBHF, KLSVF, TPTW, ICCT, ADMP, SYTA, DUO, BMRA, BJDX


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

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