Options Updates, Fresh Ideas

Options Recaps:

Our first order of business this Monday morning is going to be rehashing some recent options picks and providing readers with the new highs recently achieved.

We signaled the DHR 08/21 $200-210 Calls for the first time on the morning of July 23rd, and the PLD 08/21 $100-105 Calls on July 21st,  and here are the updated gains on both of those hugely successful plays as of Friday’s new highs:

DHR 08/21 $200-210 Calls 
$200: 4.26-9.30 (118%)
$210: 1.38-3.30 (+139%)
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PLD 08/21 $100-105 Calls
$100: 1.52-7.70 (+407%)
$105: .45-3.90 (+767%)

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Fresh Options Ideas:

We’ve also got a range of earnings related options ideas to begin tracking as we kick off this fresh trading week:

MAR Weekly $93-95 Calls
PLUG Weekly $11.50-12 Calls
GOLD Weekly $28.50-29 Calls 


Extended Watchlist:
GAXY, RBII, DMAN, ZHUD, PDGO. BEGI

Options Reviews, New Ideas

Options Updates: 

We highlighted a pair of options ideas in yesterday’s morning report, declaring our interest in tracking the KMB Weekly $145-148 Calls, as well as the DHR 08/21 $200-210 Calls. 

Despite what turned out to be a very poor session for the markets in general, both of our highlighted plays saw activity that bucked the overall trend of the day. We saw big moves in every one of the contracts in question: 

KMB Weekly $145-148 Calls
$145: 1.00-4.30 (+330%)
$146: .79-3.20 (+305%)
$147: .70-2.86 (+309%)
$148: 1.00-1.89 (+89%)
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DHR 08/21 $200-210 Calls 

$200: 4.26-7.40 (+74%)
$210: 1.38-2.58 (+87%)
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Prologis, Inc. PLD – We also had signaled some calls in the PLD chain on Tuesday morning, and after a solid midweek performance, we’ve witnessed some appreciable gains there as well.

PLD 08/21 $100-105 Calls
$100: 1.52-3.26 (+114%)
$105: .45-1.11 (+147%)


Fresh Options Ideas:

And here are the targets we’re going to be monitoring off of today’s earnings calendar. We’ll have a few weeks apiece to track and realize some solid gains in these plays.

Edwards Lifesciences Corp. EW 08/21 $78.50-80 Calls
FirstEnergy Corp. FE 08/21 $30-32 Calls


Extended Watchlist:
AXIM, SHMP, PAOG, PASO, SBFM, BBRW, CVAT

Form-4 Alert, Fresh Options Plays

Nkarta, Inc. NKTX – Form-4 Alert

We took notice of an interesting new IPO this morning in NKTX. Typically we would be more interested in stocks with a long history of data to look at, but in this case a notable name is buying up shares. Mega-laboratory GlaxoSmithKline purchased a noteworthy $15M chunk of NKTX, and the newly issued stock has been in a freefall looking for support.

In our experience, we see a lot of IPO’s that sell off hard directly after their initial offering just like this one. It’s when they establish a firm bottom that the buying opportunity is at its greatest, so we are definitely going to want to keep a close watch over NKTX for that to occur. There may be a solid gain opportunity on the horizon here that we won’t want to miss.


Virgin Galactic Holdings Inc. SPCE

We highlighted some calls in SPCE last week and met with great success, to the tune of several multi-bag gain opportunites. It has continued to run this week, and so far we’ve seen a 39% move in the stock alone from 19.07-23.53.

We are interested in selecting another range of calls to monitor with SPCE faring so well, so we’re going to place the SPCE $25.50-26.50 Calls on watch for the remainder of the week.


GeoVax Labs, Inc. GOVX

We tagged GOVX in our
extended watchlist on Tuesday, and this stock has made an absolutely eye-popping move.

From its low of .62 on Tuesday, GOVX hit 1.75 yesterday, marking a total two-day upswing of 182% We’ll continue to keep an eye peeled for more activity in this highly volatile play.


Options Ideas:
KMB Weekly $145-148 Calls
DHR 08/21 $200-210 Calls 


Extended Watchlist:
MSTO, WNDW, VYST, TSOI, LTUM