More Winning Options Plays

CRWD & PDD Options Update: 

We’ve been cruising right along this week with some really nice options plays yielding up considerable gain chances for ourselves and our readers. Our newsletters yesterday morning contained a bullish and a bearish idea in the CRWD and PDD chains, respectively.

Both companies had just released their earnings reports, and appeared to be gearing up to go in opposite directions. We targeted the CRWD Weekly $197.50-202.50 Calls and the PDD Weekly $152.50-148 Puts, and in both cases, our hunches paid off, with the CRWD ideas clearly being the more potent of the two. .

Here is the rundown of the single-session performances recorded by these plays: 

CRWD Weekly $197.50-202.50 Calls
$197.50: 3.15-14.00 (+344%)
$200: 2.40-12.07 (+403%)
$202.50: 1.86-10.00 (+438%)
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PDD Weekly $12.50-148 Puts
$152.50:
 8.01-12.95 (+62%)
$150: 6.28-11.25 (+79%)
$149: 5.00-10.02 (+101%)
$148: 6.45-10.15 (+57%)


Fresh Options Ideas: 

We’ve got another batch of earnings calendar plays this morning in the solar and retail spaces. Here are the chains and possible strike ranges that we find interesting today:

CSIQ Weekly $43.50-46 Calls 
WOOF Weekly $25 Calls
WSM Weekly $145-155 Calls 


Extended Watchlist: 
ICBU, NRPI, IMTL, MDRM, FORW, WARM, LQMT, BRTX, GRLT, ADTM

Solar is Red Hot

Keeping an Eye on Solar

This week has brought some very interesting plays in the solar energy sector. We’ve already seen big gains from SPI Energy Inc. SPI, JinkoSolar Holdings. Inc. JKS, and SunWorks Inc. SUNW, and would like to keep our eyes peeled for other opportunities in the arena which may be boosted by the volatility in those moves.

Yesterday alone, SPI went parabolic as it popped off from a low of 3.30 and hit 46.67 for an intraday run of over 1300%, SUNW ran from .73-4.57 (+526%), and JKS continued a month long run with a solid jump from 28.30 to 33.74 (+19%).

What this all tells us, is that a lot of eyeballs are sure to be flooding the solar space in coming sessions, and we’d like to formulate an options idea in the Invesco Solar ETF (TAN), which is presently flirting with a double top, the breaking of which would put it into blue sky territory. To make things interesting, we are going to place the TAN 10/16 $54-56 Calls on watch.
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Another Fresh Idea:
JEF 10/16 $17.50-20 Calls


Extended Watchlist:
JE, XTRM, CHNC, EVUS, BANT, DECN, BLLB, FSLR, CSIQ

Blue Horseshoe Stocks: ENPH Review & More

Enphase Energy, Inc. ENPH – Review

We have been exceedingly pleased with the recent performance of ENPH, which, despite recent volatility in the markets at large, has been on an incredible bull run for several weeks. We alerted our readers to ENPH’s momentum on the last day of February, and in the two trading weeks since then, the stock has barely skipped a beat.

From a low of 3.07 on the morning of our initial alert, we’ve seen ENPH steadily rise, leading to a new high of 4.74 on Friday. That works out to a very solid run of 54% In the last week especially , the stock showed little sign of slowing down, so we’ll be interested to see where its fortunes take it this week.


Walmart, Inc. WMT – Options Review

We’ve been tracking a wide range of extended-term WMT Calls since the middle of last week, the WMT 04/20 $95-97.50 Calls. We wanted to provide a quick update on the moves we had witnessed by the end of the week.

At the bottom of the range, the $95 Calls ran from .25 to .51 for a gain of 104%  At the top, we saw the $97.50’s rise from .11 to .24, a 118% rip. The four sets of contracts in between those two also produced opportunities at commensurate profits. With plenty of time prior to expiration, we’ll leave these contracts on our radar and continue to monitor them as we kick off a fresh trading week.


Extended Watchlist:
CSIQ, RKDA, OPTT, FSCS, JKS, VIVE, HRTX, FNF