Friday 4 Winners, Today’s 4 Fresh Plays

Friday’s Options Gainers:

We closed out the trading week on Friday morning in grand fashion, highlighting a 4-pack of fresh earnings-related options ideas for the day. Despite the markets sliding back and three out of the four being bullish ideas, we scored solid gain opportunities in everything we were focused on, which is fairly typical around here.

The targets that we were interested in tracking in Friday’s premarket report were the KMB Weekly $130-134 Calls, the SLB Weekly $40.50-41 Calls, the HCA Weekly 245-237.50 Puts, and the SNAP Weekly $29-30 Calls. As we said, every idea we were tracking produced several chances for really nice daily gains, including a ten and twelve-bagger on those SLB Calls, as well as a nine and thirteen-bagger in the SNAP Calls!

Be sure to check out today’s four fresh plays below, after perusing these intraday figures from Friday: 

KMB Weekly $130-134 Calls
$130:
 8.30-11.30 (+36%)
$131: 6.15-9.40 (+53%)
$132: 6.50-8.55 (+32%)
$133: 5.30-7.50 (+42%)
$134: 4.80-7.30 (+52%)
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SLB Weekly $40.50-41 Calls
$40.50: .25-2.75 (+1000%)
$41: .18-2.40 (+1233%)
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HCA Weekly 245-237.50 Puts
$245: 8.90-31.83 (+258%)
$240: 3.70-29.65 (+701%)
$237.50: 3.95-23.65 (+499%)
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SNAP Weekly $29-30 Calls
$29: .10-1.00 (+900%)
$29.50: .03-.44 (+1366%)
$30: .30-1.47 (+390%)


Fresh Options Ideas:
SPY 04/25 $426-424 Puts
KO Weekly $64-66 Calls
PHG 05/20 $30-25 Puts
OTIS 05/20 $70-75 Calls 


Extended Watchlist:
IGEX, SYSX, KGKG, TGGI, ICOA, NKTX, TWTR, ERYP, ARDX, SBFM, QNRS, 

More Big Name Earnings Reports, More Options Ideas

Yesterday’s Options Runners:

We cast a fairly wide net yesterday with respect to the number of potential targets we were monitoring, with five ideas on the daily slate in our premarket report. Despite another rough ride for the markets in general, most of those targets put forth early gain opportunities. Our bearish sentiment on Carvana of course led to the best chances.

The specific targets were the CVNA Weekly $91-88 Puts, the CSX Weekly $35-37 Calls, and the TSLA Weekly $1040-1060 Calls. and the possible intraday gains ranged from moderate to excellent. Here were the trading ranges they registered:

CVNA Weekly $91-88 Puts
$91: 
2.90-11.71 (+304%)
$90: 2.80-10.70 (+282%)
$89: 3.17-9.47 (+199%)
$88: 2.25-8.70 (+287%)
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CSX Weekly $35-37 Calls
$132: 
1.62-2.50 (+54%)
$133: 1.00-1.60 (+60%)
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TSLA Weekly $1040-1060 Calls 
$1040: 30.75-52.72 (+71%)
$1045: 27.45-48.29 (+76%)
$1050: 23.51-44.25 (+88%)
$1055: 21.91-40.00 (+83%)
$1060: 18.41-36.10 (+96%)


Fresh Options Ideas:
KMB Weekly $130-134 Calls*
SLB Weekly $40.50-41.50 Calls*
HCA Weekly 245-237.50 Puts*
SNAP Weekly $29-30 Calls*

*Please don’t try to trade options on their day of expiration unless you are well versed in options trading! 


Extended Watchlist:
TXTM, FAGI, GDSI, VLON, MITQ, IGDX, NVSGF, PMETF, CGSI

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

Blue Horseshoe Stocks: MBRX Blows its Lid

 
Kimberly Clark Corp. KMB

We want to kick things off this morning by highlighting the fantastic options idea we included in yesterday morning’s premarket report. That was the KMB Weekly $125-128 Calls, and we’re pleased to relay the stellar first-day performance of those contracts, all four of which produced enormous multibag intraday moves, including a thousand-percent-plus play in the $128’s.

$125 Calls – Range: 1.40-7.14  – Max Gain: 410%
$126 Calls – Range: 1.00-6.50 – Max Gain: 550%
$127 Calls – Range: .72-4.90  – Max Gain: 581%
$128 Calls – Range: .36-4.80  – Max Gain: 1233%
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FRESH OPTIONS IDEA:
Twitter, Inc. TWTR Weekly $35.50-37 Calls
Hasbro, Inc. HAS Weekly $97-101 Calls
Lockheed Martin Corp. LMT Weekly $327.50-$337.50 Calls


Moleculin Biotech, Inc. MBRX – Recap

Following the FDA fast-tracking of the company’s Annamycin drug, yesterday morning we noted that this stock we began tracking late last month had risen by 89% (.7772-1.47) right on the heels of the good news. It would appear that the development took some time to fully filter through the investment community, because even we weren’t prepared for the enormous continuation of momentum that has now transpired.

From yesterday’s 1.25 low-of-day, MBRX shot up like a rocket and ultimately reached a new peak of 3.15. That worked out to a single session surge of 152% From our initially observed low, it represents an increase of 305% in just over three weeks of trading. This has not turned out to be our biggest stock-only call of the year so far just yet, but it is right up there among the best.


Extended Watchlist:
TMPS, GNC, AYTU, HLTH, VERB, VTVT, FORK, WVE, RVP, CVM

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