Fed Rate Hike Sends Yesterday’s Options Plays Soaring

Massive Options Gainers Across the Board: 

Thanks to the response to yesterday afternoon’s Fed meeting and rate hike, we came down on the right side of the fence with regard to our daily options ideas. Not only did all four of our fresh targets produce multi-bag intraday gains, but the SPY calls we had signaled on Tuesday also posted impressive new highs before their expiration at the end of the day. So we’ll start off by updating those figures, and continue on to our 4-pack of fresh winners.

Those were the AMD Weekly $95-97 Calls, the ABNB Weekly $149-152.50 Calls, the SBUX Weekly $77-79 Calls, and the MRNA Weekly $150-155 Calls. The SPY targets from Tuesday morning’s report were the SPY 05/04 $414-416 Calls. The ranges on the SPY represent a two-day swing, while the gains made by the remaining four were of course for yesterday’s session alone:

SPY 05/04 $414-416 Calls
$414: 4.22-16.00 (+279%)
$415: 3.72-15.04 (+304%)
$416: 3.25-14.08 (+333%)
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AMD Weekly $95-97 Calls
$95: 
1.23-5.22 (+324%)
$96: .96-4.40 (+358%)
$97: .73-3.60 (+393%)
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ABNB Weekly $149-152.50 Calls
$149: 
2.63-7.80 (+197%)
$150: 2.27-7.29 (+221%)
$152.50: 1.59-5.41 (+240%)
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SBUX Weekly $77-79 Calls
$77: 
1.95-5.84 (+479%)
$78: 1.35-4.79 (+254%)
$79: .95-3.79 (+299%)
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MRNA Weekly $150-155 Calls
$150: 
2.01-7.06 (+251%)
$152.50: 1.47-5.35 (+263%)
$155: 1.01-3.94 (+290%)


Fresh Options Ideas: 
SHOP Weekly $420-435 Calls
BKNG Weekly $2300-2350 Calls
FTNT 05/20 $290-310 Calls


Extended Watchlist:
NWBO, FERN, UNQL, PUGE, DVLP, AUST, HYMC, ICPT, SONM, BTTX

Form-4 Alert & More

Options Review 

We closed out the trading week on Friday morning with some fresh options ideas, namely the SPLK Weekly $134-138 Calls. The moves we observed in those contract sets were highly impressive, with enormous multi-bag runs across the board.

The total possible profits on the table for daytraders were as follows:

$134 CallsRange: 1.79-6.50 – Max Gain: 263%
$135 Calls – Range: 1.15-5.80 – Max Gain: 404%
$136 Calls – Range: .83-5.70  – Max Gain: 586%
$137 Calls – Range: .50-3.70 – Max Gain: 640%
$138 Calls – Range: .26-2.74  – Max Gain: 954%

Cheers to anyone who took advantage of this unbelievable quick-strike opportunity!


Ebix, Inc. EBIX – Form-4 Alert

We caught a Form-4 insider buying alert on EBIX this morning. That’s when we noticed the prime bottom positioning of the chart, complete with a significant gap to the topside. This will be a perfect candidate to identify some longer-term options plays we have interest in tracking.

We’ll be looking at the EBIX 03/20 $30-40 Calls in the days and weeks ahead.


Extended Watchlist:
ANAB, SAML, ATNM, TEVA, ICPT, ZGNX, CYIO, SAML

Blue Horseshoe Stocks: Options Roundup

GW Pharma plc GWPH – Update 

Fresh for our premarket report yesterday morning was a set of short-to-intermediate term options ideas for the GWPH chain, the 03/15 $165-175 Calls.

We’re happy to report that the first day monitoring those plays yielded some solid gain opportunities for savvy traders. We’ll be sure to continue tracking, but for now the single-session gains it produced were as follows:

$165 Calls – Range: 7.40-14.30- – Max Gain: 93%
$170 Calls – Range: 5.80-11.80 – Max Gain: 103%
$175 Calls – Range: 2.50-9.54 – Max Gain: 281%


Etsy, Inc. ETSY – Recap

Tuesday morning, we announced our interest in the ETSY 03/15 $60-65 Calls, and while we saw some good gains out of it that day, we did mention yesterday morning that we would continue to track these ideas.

It was a good thing we reserved that space on our watch screen too, because ETSY followed up on its bullish Tuesday performance, with another solid upswing for Wednesday. The following figures are the overall increases from our observed lows in these contracts from Tuesday, to yesterday’s new highs.

$60 Calls – Range: 6.39-12.30 – Max Gain: 94%
$65 Calls – Range: 3.49-7.81 – Max Gain: 124%
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Lowes Companies, Inc. LOW

We also had the LOW Weekly $108-110 Calls on watch from yesterday morning‘s report and those fared quite well also.

$108 Calls – Range: .30-1.01 – Max Gain: 237%
$109 Calls – Range: .21-.50 – Max Gain: 138%
$110 Calls – Range: .08-.28 – Max Gain: 312%


Extended Watchlist:
JCP, RKDA, PCRX, VERU, ICPT, TTI