Kicking Off a Fresh Trading Week

Direxion Daily S&P Oil & Gas Exp. & Prod. Bull 2X Shares (ETF) GUSH

On Wednesday morning, we tagged GUSH for observation, and after just a few sessions , it came up off Wednesday’s low at 20.37 fairly convincingly.

On Thursday, this fund ran to a new high of 29.25, which marked a two-session upswing totaling a relatively modest yet respectable 44% increase. We will continue to monitor GUSH, which was a $500/share fund just six weeks ago.


Levi Strauss & Co. LEVI – Options Update 

We signaled a range of LEVI calls last week, also on Wednesday, in the LEVI 04/17 $12-13 Calls, and saw some solid gains from those ideas in the final two days of the short week. Both contract sets experienced multi-bag gains as follows:

LEVI 04/17 $12-13 Calls
$12:.80-2.55 (+150%)
$13: .30-1.70 (+283%)

These plays expire on Friday, so we’ll leave them on the radar to see what they have in store for this fresh trading week.
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Fresh Options Ideas:
SRC 05/15 $35-40 Calls
GILD Weekly $74.50-76 Calls 

Options Updates, Fresh Ideas

Options Updates
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Johnson & Johnson JNJ – 
We initially made the longer-term call on the JNJ 09/18 $150-155 Calls at the beginning of last week, and yesterday morning as part of an update on those targets we also gave a more immediate idea with the JNJ Weekly $134-137 Calls. The markets absolutely ripped yesterday, and that catapulted both sets of ideas to new heights.


Here are the updated highs on last Monday’s September calls, as well as the single-session ranges on the weeklies:

09/18 $150-155 Calls
$150: 2.90-5.80 (+100%)
$155: 2.27-4.00 (+76%)

JNJ Weekly $134-137 Calls.
$134: 3.19-7.20 (+126%)
$135: 2.54-6.00 (+136%)
$136: 2.09-3.95 (+89%)

We would also like to roll up to include the Weekly $140-142 Calls on our watchlist.

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SPDR S&P500 (ETF) SPY – We also signaled interest in a range of SPY calls in yesterday morning’s ;premarket report, highlighting the Weekly $258-260 Calls.

The bullish day for stocks across the board facilitated some very good moves in those three contract sets on the session. We expect these gains to be extended at the open, as the markets are gapping up once again this morning in early trading.

Weekly $258-260 Calls 
$258: 4.07-10.66 (+162%)
$259: 3.61-9.98 (+176%)
$260: 3.11-9.25 (+197%)


Extended  Watchlist:
CRON, TLRY, CGC, GUSH, BSGM, ALTD, HALB, DECN, NSPX, OZSC,