Great Start to the Week, 5 New Targets

Great Start to the Trading Week:

It’s always pleasing when we can get off on the right foot to open up a fresh week of trading, and we were quite pleased with yesterday’s spot-on performance. We signaled interest in tracking a group of five potential options targets in our premarket report, and we ended up seeing some nice intraday upswings in each and every one of them. Being in the thick of another earnings season certainly doesn’t hurt our efforts to find movers every day.

Monday’s runners were the WDC Weekly $42.50-44 Calls, the ON Weekly $80-77 Puts, the MCD Weekly $260-262.50 Calls, the SPY 10/30 $413-414 Calls and the NVDA Weekly $397.50-405 Calls. Here is the breakdown of the kinds of moves and total possible gains that we witnessed on the day:

WDC Weekly $42.50-44 Calls
$42.50:
 .75-1.48 (+97%)
$43: .23-.43 (+87%)
$43.50: .44-.90 (+104%)
$44: .29-.66 (+127%)
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ON Weekly $80-77 Puts
$80: 7.55-13.85 (+84%)
$79: 6.25-12.65 (+102%)
$78: 6.50-11.30 (+74%)
$77: 4.70-11.70 (+149%)
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MCD Weekly $260-262.50 Calls
$260: 1.09-3.85 (+253%)
$262.50: .60-2.35 (+292%)
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SPY 10/30 $413-414 Calls
$413: .78-3.69 (+373%)
$414: .40-2.70 (+575%)
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NVDA Weekly $397.50-405 Calls
$397.50: 13.90-20.49 (+47%)
$400: 11.95-18.00 (+51%)
$405: 9.10-14.53 (+60%)


Fresh Options Ideas:
ANET Weekly $187.50-192.50 Calls
PINS Weekly $28.50-29.50 Calls
CAT Weekly $235-230 Puts
BUD Weekly $55-56 Calls
BP Weekly $37.50-36.50 Puts


Extended Watchlist 
LMDX, AVTX, VSME, WNW, NLST, GVSI, SONG, ZHUD

Midweek Updates, Trio of New Ideas

Midweek Options Recaps:  

We offered up a pair of short term and a pair of longer term ideas in our premarket report yesterday, and as is pretty typical, we saw some good movement out of the weekly plays, and not so much instant gratification from those that expire next month. We usually gravitate to those kind of ideas during earnings low periods, and we certainly have been short on big name reporters this week. But we’ll continue to monitor those interests into October, and keep trying to point out whatever looks best to us on a daily basis.

As for yesterday’s weekly plays, which were the CBRL Weekly $70-75 Calls and the BUR Weekly $17.50-15 Puts, we observed the following intraday trading activity and gain potential:

CBRL Weekly $70-75 Calls
$70:
 3.00-4.20 (+40%)
$75: 1.09-2.66 (+144%)
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BUR Weekly $17.50-15 Puts
$17.50:
 1.63-1.93 (+18%)
$15: .05-.10 (+100%)


Fresh Options:
SMTC Weekly $22-23 Calls
SPY 09/14 $447-448 Calls
BABA Weekly $87-89 Calls


Extended Watchlist:
AVTX, FWBI, GMBL, RNAZ, KITT, NVOS, NAVB, NLST, YCRM, CNBX

Big Name Earnings Plays & More

Options Reviews:

Things got off to a pretty lackluster start to the week yesterday. While both of our selected options ideas in our premarket report did record positive intraday movement, the level of the gains they achieved didn’t really rise to our particularly high standards. Today should be a lot more exciting, with a much more interesting crop of earnings reporters.

Yesterday’s targets were the PHG 05/19 $22.50 Calls, and the KO Weekly $65 Calls, and the daily moves they made are as follows. We also have an update on the NTLA 05/19 $35-40 Calls, which we put on our radar back on the 10th, and subsequently made a really nice move.

PHG 05/19 $22.50 Calls
$22.50:
 .35-.45 (+29%)
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KO Weekly $65 Calls
$65:
 .14-.22 (+57%)
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NTLA 05/19 $35-40 Calls
$35:
 3.30-6.10 (+85%)
$40: 1.25-3.80 (+204%)


Fresh Options Ideas:
NVS 05/19 $105 Calls
MCD Weekly $292.50-297.50 Calls
PEP Weekly $187.50-190 Calls
RTX Weekly $104 Calls


Extended Watchlist:
VIRI, ZFOX, CXAI, BXRX, SPPI, MORF, NLST, RDGL, RPMT,