Tag: KSS

Closing Out an Interesting Trading Week

Bearish Retail Targets Fall Despite General Uptrend:

With the state of the markets this week, we had remained primarily focused on bearish signals through to yesterday morning’s report. Even as stocks put forward an impressive rebound on Thursday, the majority of our tracked plays still produced.

Two of our three designated potential targets bucked the trend of the day, both giants in the retail space. The KSS Weekly $58-56.50 Puts and the RL Weekly $130-125 Puts logged very respectable intraday upswings, with four out of those six contract sets recording double-bag gains or better.

Here were those trend-bucking moves, and total potential daily gains for traders: 

KSS Weekly $58-56.50 Puts
$58: 3.00-5.54 (+85%)
$57.50: 2.40-4.00 (+66%)
$57: 1.70-4.22 (+148%)
$56.50: 1.30-3.65 (+181%)
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RL Weekly $130-125 Puts
$130: 4.10-10.85 (+165%)
$125: 1.45-6.50 (+348%)

Fresh Options Ideas:

We’re going to flip back over to the other side of the fence this morning and designate some bullish options ideas for today. The scenario with the above mentioned short plays was the exception, not the rule. The typical key to our particular brand of quick-strike trading is to constantly keep your finger on the pulse of the markets and heed the prevailing winds. 

BKE Weekly $40-42.50 Calls
DE Weekly $357.50-362.50 Calls
SPY 05/21 $415-417 Calls

Extended Watchlist:
ENKS, MLFB, IFUS, MINE, SUIC, COWI, TGRR, CZNI

More Bearish Options Plays

Options Review:

The markets slid once again to start yesterday’s session as we suspected they may, and despite recovering into the close, we had plenty of time and opportunity to profit off of the bearish slate of options ideas we put forth in our premarket report.

Our target plays that produced in the session were the SPY 05/19 $409-407 Puts and the LOW Weekly $192.50-187.50 Puts. We saw some good afternoon activity with the following intraday runs:

SPY 05/19 $409-407 Puts
$409: .33-1.70 (+415%)
$408: .13-1.05 (+707%)
$407: .07-.60 (+757%)
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LOW Weekly $192.50-187.50 Puts
$192.50: 3.30-6.65 (+102%)
$190: 2.08-4.62 (+122%)
$187.50: 1.22-3.06 (+151%)
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Fresh Options Ideas:
KSS Weekly $58-56.50 Puts
RL Weekly $130-125 Puts
CSCO Weekly $50.50-49 Puts 

International Consolidated Companies, Inc. INCC – Recap

We also want to talk about INCC for a moment, following its big run to new highs. We’ve been tracking this play since the morning of April 6th, and it has made some impressive swings.

Following our flag last month the stock ran 100% from .0018-.0036, and subsequently consolidated back down to .0017 before hitting its new high of .0061 yesterday, which represents an upswing of 259%  We’ll be looking for it to hold .0037, above the previous swing high on any pullbacks.

Extended Watchlist:
DSCR, SEEK, UATG, BYRG, FWDG, AERS, MNGG, QBAN, XTRM, RSHN

Multi-Bag Options Runners

SPDR S&P500 (ETF) SPY – Review

We really couldn’t have timed our call of the market reversal any better, and in fact, our handling of the whole coronavirus issue has been extremely fortuitous by all accounts. Our targets, the
SPY 03/13 $298-301 Calls, were able to see some excellent new highs on the strength of the rebounding market.

The following gains represent the lows subsequent to Friday’s call of these plays to the new highs recorded yesterday:

SPY 03/13 $298-301 Calls
$298: 5.67-14.21 (+151%)
$299: 5.44-13.97 (+157%)
$300: 4.65-13.42 (+187%)
$301: 4.54-12.47 (+175%)

JD.com, Inc. JD

We also had the JD Weekly $39.50-41.50 Calls, which we offered up fresh for yesterday’s report. Despite China fears abounding, this Chinese retailer dropped solid earnings and performed exceedingly well on the day.

All of our target contracts enjoyed significant multibag moves on the day.

JD Weekly $39.50-41.50 Calls
$39.50: 1.91-4.60 (+136%)
$40: 1.55-4.17 (+169%)
$40.50: 1.30-3.60 (+177%)
$41: 1.02-3.40 (+233%)
$41.50: .85-2.75 (+224%)

We’ll roll up to the JD Weekly $42.50-43.50 Calls to stay closer to the action as we head into the midweek point.
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Fresh Ideas:
KSS Weekly $39.50-41.50 Calls
TGT Weekly $109-111 Calls

Extended Watchlist:
CHK, CVGW, SBBP, IPIX,