Big Options Gainers, New Earnings Plays

Huge SPY Gains & More: 

Yesterday’s trading session was one of extremes. The markets gapped up before dipping early, and running into the Fed meeting, after which there was another precipitous drop-off followed by a late day run into the close. It was a choppy and exciting session, and that late rally pushed the SPY Calls we highlighted in our premarket report to some major league moves.

Those potential plays were the SPY 01/04 $382-383 Calls, and we got some decent intraday push from our other set of targets, the SGH 01/20 $15-17.50 Calls as well. Here were the intraday ranges and total possible gains to be had for both ideas, as well as some new highs on the PLAY 01/20 $35-36 Calls we’ve been on since December 20th:

SPY 01/04 $382-383 Calls
$382:
 .17-2.24 (+1218%)
$383: .04-.99 (+2375%)
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SGH 01/20 $15-17.50 Calls
$15: 1.05-1.55 (+48%)
$17.50: .15-.30 (+100%)
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PLAY 01/20 $35-36 Calls
$35: 1.03-2.79 (+171%)
$36: .72-2.11 (+193%)


Fresh Options Ideas:
NEOG Weekly $15.50-16.50 Calls
CAG Weekly $39-40 Calls
STZ Weekly $227.50-222.50 Puts
WBA Weekly $36.50-35.50 Puts


Kala Pharmaceuticals, Inc. KALA – Recap:

We have been tracking KALA since first alerting the stock in our report from last Wednesday morning, subsequent to which time, we would observe a low of 6.00. It has been a constant flow of new highs since then, and yesterday, KALA reached an incredible 56.72, which works out to an increase of 845% over the lows from last week.


Extended Watchlist:
HKD, VYNT, NVCR, ORTX, RKLY, BLPH, CORZQ, NLST, ETCG, ICNM, SMME, REII

Kicking Off the First of Two Short Trading Weeks

Dave & Busters Entertainment, Inc. PLAY – Options Review:

We just had a single solitary options idea that we formulated for Friday morning’s premarket report, in the Dave & Busters chain, the PLAY 01/20 $35-37 Calls. We’ve got an update on this morning to start off this short week, which we expect to be rather laid back, if prior years are any indicator.

There weren’t any other interesting earnings reporters going out on the day, but we managed to eke out some decent gains. We’re going without earnings once again today, but we’ve got some increased activity in the OTC as you’ll read about below.

PLAY 01/20 $35-37 Calls
$35: 1.03-1.85 (+80%)
$36: .72-1.27 (+76%)
$37: .60-.81 (+35%)


More OTC Recaps:

We tend to lean more heavily on the OTC toward the end of the year, when penny stocks typically heat up compared to the larger markets. Not many large companies are reporting earnings at the moment, and OTC tax loss selling can hammer a lot of these stocks down. That, in turn, causes a wave of opportunistic traders like ourselves to swoop in and accumulate cheap shares. The net result is a heightened landscape of possibility for many over the counter stocks.

Below, we’ve got a group of OTC plays we’ve been tracking in recent reports that posted some new highs on an otherwise mundane Friday. We last alerted STRY and BIEI on the 20th, and GTII just a couple of days later. Here were the updated figures on the total ranges and possible gain opportunities as we closed out the trading week:

Starry Group Holding, Inc. STRY
Alerted: December 20th
Range: .0165-.0335 (+103%)
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Premier Biomedical Inc. BIEI
Alerted: December 20th
Range: .0031-.006 (+99%)
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Global Tech Industries Group, Inc. GTII
Alerted: December 22nd
Range: .74-1.20 (+62%)


Extended Watchlist:
ICNM, OTTV, CYDY, CLOW, DBMM, HIRU, BWLKF, APE, ATNF, HTGM, NEPT, CEI, GMTX

Monday’s Opportunities, Tuesday’s Fresh Plays

Monday’s Movers:

The week got off to a slow start yesterday, with the markets dipping and a general lack of interesting earnings reports, but we still managed to find some intraday opportunities in a couple of the options ideas we had signaled for observation. We went two for three on the day in our premarket report, which wasn’t too bad under the circumstances.

The ideas that produced intraday movement for us were the SPY 12/05 $405 Calls, and the SAIC 12/16 $110-115 Calls.and those gain chances were moderate but respectable. We also have an update on another set of December 16th calls that we alerted last Monday morning. the RYAN 12/16 $40 Calls, which put together a very nice run over the past week.

SPY 12/05 $405 Calls 
$405: .26-.49 (+88%)
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SAIC 12/16 $110-115 Calls
$110:
5.30-7.80 (+47%)
$115: 2.20-4.17 (+90%)
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RYAN 12/16 $40 Calls
$40:
.54-2.50 (+363%)


Fresh Options Ideas:
GTLB 12/16 $45 Calls
FERG 12/16 $115-120 Calls
SIG Weekly $60-62 Calls


Extended Watchlist:
NILIF, ICNM, WSRC, GSTC, RITE, BRLL, PVCT, SMMT, VTGN, STRY, VVNT