Solid Options Plays, Fresh Targets

More Options Review:

Yesterday turned out to be a very fruitful session for us, with three out of the four potential options trading targets we mentioned in our premarket report yielding some good intraday opportunities. No one can win them all, but it’s come to the point where missing on any of our ideas is a relative rarity for us, as any of our regular readers can attest.

Yesterday’s winning items of interest included the BABA Weekly $93-95 Calls, the MKC 04/21 $75-80 Calls, and the PVH 04/21 $80-85 Calls, with the BABA Calls providing the clearest path to big time profits.Here’s the breakdown of yesterday’s activity in these plays:

BABA Weekly $93-95 Calls 
$93: 2.14-7.00 (+227%)
$94: 1.76-6.25 (+255%)
$95: 1.41-5.50 (+290%)
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MKC 04/21 $75-80 Calls
$75: 4.80-8.83 (+84%)
$80: 1.40-4.80 (+243%)
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PVH 04/21 $80-85 Calls
$80: 
5.00-10.19 (+104%)
$85: 2.50-6.40 (+156%)


Fresh Options Ideas:
PAYX 04/21 $115 Calls
LULU Weekly $367.50-372.50 Calls
MU Weekly $59-61 Calls
SPY 03/29 $397-398 Calls*

*Trading options contracts on their day of expiration should not be attempted by inexperienced traders 


Extended Watchlist: 
EPAZ, HMBL, GMZB, PEMIF, CDSG, LOCL, BDRX, LGMX, HLBZ, JFIN

Kicking the Tires on a Fresh Trading Week

Friday’s Options Runners:

We hope everyone enjoyed the last long weekend until the holidays, and is as ready as we are to hop back into trading action. We ended last week on a fairly positive note, having selected three potential options targets for observation and observing considerable gains in each of them. We are now seeing a considerable drop-off in daily reporters after what was an amazing earning season, but as always, we’ll seek out opportunities and make them work for us!

Our targets from Friday morning’s premarket report worked for us, and they were the AVGO Weekly $495-510 Calls, the LULU Weekly $315-322.50 Calls, and the HCP 09/16 $35-40 Calls. The LULU targets in the low end of the range were our biggest winners of the session, making moves that topped 300%

AVGO Weekly $495-510 Calls
$495: 11.71-21.11 (+80%)
$500: 7.19-16.00 (+122%)
$505: 3.96-11.00 (+178%)
$510: 2.00-6.70 (+235%)
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LULU Weekly $315-322.50 Calls
$315: .48-2.19 (+356%)
$317.50: .19-.83 (+337%)
$320: 1.75-4.16 (+138%)
$322.50: .77-2.00 (+160%)
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HCP 09/16 $35-40 Calls
$35: .78-1.20 (+54%)
$40: .35-.45 (+29%)


Fresh Options Ideas:
NVDA Weekly $136-138 Calls
NVDA 10/07 $145-150 Calls
GTLB 09/16 $50 Calls
GES 10/21 $17-19 Calls


Extended Watchlist:
AABB, ATYG, PQEFF, WTEQF, INTK, LVGI, TGGI, ISEE, HYRE, RUBY, ONVO, KOLD, APDN, ADT

Shorts Yield Dividends, Fresh Ideas to Close out the Week

Bearish Signals Pay Off:

We got things back on track in a big way for yesterday morning’s premarket report, with regard to our daily options ideas. It is an extremely rare occurrence that we would signal a full slate with nothing but bearish targets, but that’s exactly how things shook out yesterday, and it worked to our advantage.

The collection of puts that we were tracking for the day were the MDB Weekly $280-275 Puts, the OKTA Weekly $78-75 Puts, the CIEN 09/16 $55-45 Puts, and the SPY 09/02 $395-393 Puts, and thanks partly to the early downturn in the markets right from the opening bell, these were the caliber of gain opportunities that awaited us with these ideas:

MDB Weekly $280-275 Puts
$280: 
11.90- 40.58 (+241%)
$277.50: 14.60-39.00 (+228%)
$275: 9.40-35.00 (+272%)
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OKTA Weekly $78-75 Puts
$78:
 9.00-19.60 (+118%)
$77: 7.50-18.57 (+148%)
$76: 7.45-17.25 (+131%)
$75: 5.95-16.65 (+180%)
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CIEN 09/16 $55-45 Puts
$55: 6.90-9.50 (+38%)
$50: 2.18-5.20 (+138%)
$45: .57-1.44 (+153%)
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SPY 09/02 $395-393 Puts
$395: 3.83-5.82 (+52%)
$394: 3.27-5.14 (+57%)
$393: 2.76-4.48 (+63%)


Fresh Options Ideas:
AVGO Weekly $495-510 Calls
LULU Weekly $315-322.50 Calls
HCP 09/16 $35-40 Calls


Extended Watchlist:
ALST, DVLP, PSRU, SBES, PQEFF, GDVM, NBEV, BIAF, HOLI, DRUG, PXMD, FRZA, HCP