GFS Calls Post 1100% Gainer, Fresh Plays

Options Review:

Things took an unexpected turn for the markets yesterday, with all premarket signs pointing to a lackluster day, but the session itself turning out to be generally bullish. The result was an added push for the bullish play on our radar, while the bearish ones fell by the wayside.

We’ll recap the daily performance of those YOU Weekly $30 Calls, and we also want to include a couple of updates on two sets of longer-term plays that we added into the mix last Tuesday. On the morning of the 8th, we signaled interest in the GFS 08/19 $60-65 Calls, and the XOM 09/02 $95-96 Calls
and both of those have turned out to be excellent ideas, posting the following huge runs over the past week:

YOU Weekly $30 Calls
$30: 
.15-.40 (+167%)
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GFS 08/19 $60-65 Calls
$60: .80-6.40 (+700%)
$65: .22-2.80 (+1173%)
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XOM 09/02 $95-96 Calls
$95: .80-2.58 (+222%)
$96: .90-2.06 (+129%)


Fresh Options Ideas: 
WMT Weekly $136-138 Calls
HD Weekly $315-312.50 Puts
GLBE Weekly $30 Calls


Extended Watchlist:
INKW, WPUR, INTK, TVPC, DPLS, ONCI, MEGL, FRZA, AMTD, GBOX, TGL, EMBK, IZEA, DNA

Sweeping the Board with Options Runners

Clean Options Sweep:

Amid a huge day for the markets yesterday, our daily options ideas also bore fruit. We’ve missed on exactly one of the many targets we’ve formulated all week, demonstrating a fairly routine level of accuracy for us. Our regular readers are surely accustomed to our high hit rate, and as for all of you newcomers, you will begin to see that we run a pretty tight ship around here. Each day consists of a review of the previous sessions interests, a grouping of fresh options ideas wherever possible, and an extended watchlist of both small and large cap stocks to watch based on their premarket activity.

Yesterday’s premarket report brought three ideas for the day, and those targets were the MRNA Weekly $162.50-167.50 Calls, the SBUX Weekly $84-86 Calls, and the PYPL Weekly $98-101 Calls, with MRNA and SBUX both showing out as the big winners. Here are the intraday moves recorded by our designated plays:

MRNA Weekly $162.50-167.50 Calls
$162.50: 5.75-26.46 (+360%)
$165: 6.15-24.20 (+293%)
$167.50: 3.65-21.70 (+494%)
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SBUX Weekly $84-86 Calls
$84: 1.22-4.00 (+228%)
$85: .72-3.15 (+332%)
$86: .37-2.28 (+516%)
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PYPL Weekly $98-101 Calls
$98:
 3.43-4.60 (+39%)
$99: 2.85-3.95 (+39%)
$100: 2.28-3.28 (+44%)
$101: 1.83-2.67 (+46%)


Fresh Options Ideas:
CI Weekly $277.50-282.50 Calls
COP Weekly $92-93 Calls
BABA Weekly $98-101 Calls
FTNT 08/19 $56-55 Puts


Extended Watchlist: 
TOMDF, INND, CYDY, IGEX, INKW, PSWW, GWHP, ILIM, TWOH, HZEN, MF, ALNA, EMBK, GRNA, SOPA, NNVC, XCUR, CCXI, EFSH

Using the SPY to Our Advantage, 3 Fresh Ideas

SPY Puts Surge: 

Once again yesterday, the markets losses are our gains. Our lone options trading idea for the day focused upon a dim view of the SPY, and with another precipitous decline for stocks, we hit the nail right on the head. This is among the reasons why our readers see SPY plays in our newsletters on a highly regular basis, as it tends to be easier to predict the actions of the markets as a whole than it is do so the same for just one. The SPY also sees a lot of intraday volatility which can often lead to opportunities on both sides of the fence in a single session.

In terms of yesterday morning, due to a bit of a drought of earnings reporters, our premarket report contained only one idea, which was the SPY 06/13 $385-383 Puts. Those targets offered up the chance at the following really nice intraday profit chances:

 SPY 06/13 $385-383 Puts
$385: 4.24-11.01 (+160%)
$384: 3.46-10.50 (+203%)
$383: 2.84-9.67 (+240%)


Fresh Options Ideas:
ORCL Weekly $70-72.50 Calls
COP Weekly $110-112 Calls
FERG Weekly $100-110 Calls


ProText Mobility, Inc. TXTM – Recap:

We also wanted to provide a quick recap on the run in TXTM yesterday. We last flagged this play for observation in an extended watchlist a few weeks back, subsequent to which the stock was trading for as little as .0016. Yesterday, on an immense amount of volume, the stock surged as high as .0049, which marks a 206% swing over our observed low.


Extended Watchlist:
KAVL, SLNO, EMBK, GMVD, SONM, CLVS, LTCN, SIRC, BCHG, BMIX, LICY