Five Fresh Ideas to Start the Week

Friday’s Options Movers:

We put an excellent cap on last week, finishing up on Friday morning with a trio of options ideas in our premarket report. It was a good way to cap off the final session The markets put on a good performance, and that helped to propel our targets to some very good intraday increases and possible profits.

Those plays were the SPY 07/15 $379-382.50 Calls, the UNH Weekly $507.50-515 Calls, and the PINS Weekly $19-20.50 Calls.The success ran all the way across the board, with only one of the thirteen individual contract sets in our designated ranges falling just shy of multi-bag territory. Here were the total gains that were up for grabs:

SPY 07/15 $379-382.50 Calls
$379:
 2.71-6.20 (+129%)
$380: 2.15-5.50 (+156%)
$381: 1.61-4.25 (+164%)
$382: 1.19-3.25 (+173%)
$382.50: 1.03-3.13 (+204%)
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UNH Weekly $507.50-515 Calls
$507.50: 10.35-24.01 (+132%)
$510: 7.44-20.04 (+169%)
$512.50: 5.80-19.05 (+228%)
$515: 3.70-16.85 (+355%)
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PINS Weekly $19-20.50 Calls
$19: .82-1.50 (+83%)
$19.50: .43-1.04 (+142%)
$20: .21-.60 (+186%)
$20.50: .11-.24 (+118%)


Fresh Options Ideas:
SPY 07/18 $386-388 Calls
SYF Weekly $31-33 Calls
SCHW Weekly $61-64 Calls
GS Weekly $300-305 Calls
BA Weekly $150-152.50 Calls 


United Maritime Corp. USEA – We’ve also got a quick update this morning on USEA, which just commenced trading on the NASDAQ on July 6th. We tracked it over a nice 64% run the following day on the 7th, after which it consolidated into last week. After appearing again in Friday morning’s premarket report, we watched USEA make another solid move from 4.30-6.07 (+41%).


Extended Watchlist: 
GOGY, CVVUF, QSEP, CYBL, DRFS, GXXY, VAPR, QD, ADN, ILAG, EVTL, ETON, TANH

Thursday’s Movers, Friday’s Targets

Options Recap:

As we head into the end of what has been a very productive week, we’re going to take a minute to reflect on the excellent job we’ve done weathering the earnings drought which is set to end on Monday day morning. We’re sure to have plenty of ideas to come from that, but in the meantime, we’ve held our own with our daily options ideas.

Yesterday we put forth four possibilities, and three of them recorded significant positive movement on the day. Our winning targets of interest were the SPY 07/15 $378-375 Puts, the TSM Weekly $81-83 Calls, and the JPM Weekly $109-107 Puts, which posted the following trading ranges and total profit possibilities:

SPY 07/15 $378-375 Puts
$378: 3.71-5.64 (+52%)
$377: 3.08-4.94 (+60%)
$376: 2.54-4.25 (+67%)
$375: 2.08-3.66 (+75%)
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TSM Weekly $81-83 Calls
$81: .98-3.15 (+221%)
$82: .60-2.26 (+277%)
$83: .37-1.50 (+305%)
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JPM Weekly $109-107 Puts 
$109: 1.93-3.25 (+68%)
$108: 1.03-1.92 (+86%)
$107: .64-1.33 (+108%)


Fresh Options Ideas: 
SPY 07/15 $379-382.50 Calls*
UNH Weekly $507.50-515 Calls*
PINS Weekly $19-20.50 Calls*

*Trading options on their day of expiration can carry a heightened level of risk and should only be attempted by seasoned traders. 


OTC Update: Cruzani, Inc. CZNI – We’ve been tracking CZNI this week, which hit a new high of .0011 yesterday, cracking through the barrier between super-subpenny and subpenny territory. From our initially observed low of .0005 following our alert on Monday morning, the stock has posted an increase of 120%


Extended Watchlist: 
RMSL, HALB, DRFC, FMCC, FNMA, GEGI, JPEX, SYSX, USEA, NEXI, EVTL, PINS, ILAG

Four Winning Plays, More Fresh Ideas

Sweeping Options Success: 

We have never purported to be perfect when it comes to unearthing potential plays on a daily basis. Nobody can win them all, but we certainly come as close as humanly possible as often as we can. In instances like yesterday morning’s premarket report, we enjoyed perfection for the targets we chose. We set up four pins, and bowled a strike for the session!

We were looking at the TWTR Weekly $34-34.50 Calls, the DAL Weekly $30.50-29.50 Puts, the FAST Weekly $52.50-50 Puts, and the SPY 07/13 $378-375 Puts, and thanks in part to a mixed bag trading session for markets in general, we got excellent results from our bullish and bearish plays. Here were the intraday moves and total possible profits they yielded:

TWTR Weekly $34-34.50 Calls
$34:
 .90-3.20 (+256%)
$34.50: .80-2.71 (+239%)
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DAL Weekly $30.50-29.50 Puts
$30.50: 1.50-2.19 (+46%)
$30: .98-1.75 (+79%)
$29.50: .69-1.37 (+99%)
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FAST Weekly $52.50-50 Puts
$52.50: 4.10-5.47 (+33%)
$50: 2.00-3.48 (+74%)
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SPY 07/13 $378-375 Puts

$378: .23-.96 (+317%)
$377: .16-.61 (+281%)
$376: .10-.39 (+290%)
$375: .06-.25 (+317%)


Fresh Options Ideas:
SPY 07/15 $378-375 Puts
FRC Weekly $150-155 Calls
TSM Weekly $81-83 Calls
JPM Weekly $109-107 Puts 


Extended Watchlist: 
EEENF, JTBK, NEXCF, DPLS, RBNW, SISI, BMRA, TBPH, BOIL