Happy New Year, Options Ideas for Friday

HAPPY NEW YEAR, TRADERS!

Welcome back everyone, and Happy New Year. We hope your 2026 is your best year yet! We’re not going to bother going over our last report from more than a week ago. Instead, we’re just going to hit the ground running and hash out a few options ideas for today’s session.

We should see some major earnings drops start to occur later next week, but for now we’ll rely on volume trades, and the like. Here’s what we’ll be looking at for the first session of the year:

Fresh Options Ideas:
SPY 01/02 $684-686 Calls*

INTU Weekly $662.50-665 Calls*
TSLA Weekly $450-455 Calls*
TSM Weekly $310-312.50 Calls*

*Only experienced options traders should attempt to trade contracts on their expiration day


Extended Watchlist:
UAVS, DVLT, CHOW, IRWD, NCL,

SPY Calls, Special Announcement

SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT:

We have made the decision to postpone further daily reports until the new year. With no earnings reporters next week, and not much excitement expected, we’re just going to shut things down until 2026. We wish all of our readers a Happy New Year, and we’ll see you all then!



Wednesday’s Performance:

We closed out the lengthier portion of the short trading week on Wednesday in good fashion, with a set of four potential options trades in our premarket report for that morning. We were pretty well on-form with the kinds of intraday moves those plays provided, which were quite solid.

We had tagged the SPY 12/24 $688 Calls, the TSM Weekly $297.50 Calls, the PLD Weekly 01/16 $130 Calls and the AGIO 01/16 $25 Calls for observation, and here were the results from that half-session:

SPY 12/24 $688 Calls
$688:
.57-2.81 (+393%)
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TSM Weekly $297.50 Calls
$297.50: 1.50-2.63 (+75%)

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PLD Weekly 01/16 $130 Calls
$130: 1.85-2.21 (+19%)

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AGIO 01/16 $25 Calls

$25: 2.05-5.20 (+154%)


Fresh Options Ideas:
SPY 12/26 $691 Calls*

 

*Only experienced options traders should attempt to trade contracts on their expiration day


Extended Watchlist:
DTCK, CANF, ASPC, PCLA, SIDU, NCL, SOAR, AFJK, DSWL, AMCI, IVP, NCL,

Tuesday’s Big Plays, 4 Fresh Targets

Tuesday’s Runners:

We continued this short holiday week yesterday in proper fashion, signaling four possible targets in our premarket report, all of which turned out to contain some pretty good intraday movers. We’ll gear down early for the 1PM close today, enjoy the holiday tomorrow, and be right back in the saddle on Friday morning to hopefully close things out strong for the week.

Yesterday’s targets were the NFLX 01/16 $94-95 Calls, the PSKY Weekly $13.50-14 Calls, the NVO Weekly $51-53 Calls, and the ZIM Weekly $21-21.50 Calls. Here were the biggest intraday runs they recorded:

NFLX 01/16 $94-95 Calls
$94:
.74-1.08 (+46%)
$94.50: .53-.81 (+53%)
$95: .38-.57 (+50%)
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PSKY Weekly $13.50-14 Calls
$13.50: .23-.36 (+56%)
$14: .05-.07 (+40%)
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NVO Weekly $51-53 Calls
$51: .62-1.15 (+85%)
$52: .26-.53 (+104%)
$53: .11-.23 (+109%)
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ZIM Weekly $21-21.50 Calls 
$21: .48-.80 (+67%)
$21.50: .25-.45 (+80%)


Fresh Options Ideas: 
SPY 12/24 $688 Calls*
TSM Weekly $297.50 Calls
PLD Weekly 01/16 $130 Calls
AGIO 01/16 $25 Calls

*Today’s SPY Calls will be expiring at the early close of 1PM


Extended Watchlist:
MWG, ELOG, INDP, DVAX, NCL, DRMA, XTKG, RPTX, SIDU, XTKG

Friday’s Multi-Bag Runners, 3 Fresh Plays

Big Day Friday:

We closed off the holiday-shortened trading week in style last week, after signaling a slate of four potential plays in our premarket report for the day. All of them returned solid intraday gains, with all but one contract set yielding potential multi-baggers.

We had placed the SPY 11/28 $680-682 Calls, the TSLA Weekly $427.50 Calls, the AMZN Weekly $230 Calls, and the TSM Weekly $290 Calls on watch, and here were the biggest intraday runs we witnessed in those targets:

SPY 11/28 $680-682 Calls
$680:
1.62-3.64 (+125%)
$681: .91-2.63 (+189%)
$682: .25-1.69 (+576%)
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TSLA Weekly $427.50 Calls
$427.50: 1.95-5.19 (+166%)
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AMZN Weekly $230 Calls
$230: 1.10-3.28 (+198%)
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TSM Weekly $290 Calls
$290: 1.10-2.01 (+83%)


Fresh Options Ideas:
MDB Weekly $332.50 Puts
CRDO Weekly $175-172.50 Puts
DASH Weekly $205 Calls


Extended Watchlist:
QTTB, AHMA, DRCT, CIIT, KALA, WBUY, NFE, RPGL, BLTE, MFI, CSIQ

Wednesday’s Winners, 4 Possibilities for Friday

Wednesday’s Runners:

Back in the saddle today, and we hope all our readers had a pleasant Thanksgiving hiatus. We left things off on Wednesday with four possible options plays in our premarket report to monitor prior to the holiday break, and we were extremely pleased with the activity in each of them. We saw some truly impressive gainers.

We were monitoring the DELL Weekly $132-133 Calls, the ADSK Weekly $315-317.50 Calls, the DE Weekly $475-472.50 Puts, and the NTNX 12/19 $52.50 Puts. Here were the biggest intraday runs they put together for us.

DELL Weekly $132-133 Calls
$132:
.74-4.00 (+440%)
$133: .42-3.45 (+721%)
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ADSK Weekly $315-317.50 Calls
$315 
.22-.55 (+150%)
$317.50: .05-.54 (+980%)
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DE Weekly $475-472.50 Puts
$475:
1.39-8.00 (+476%)
$472.50: 1.15-6.00 (+421%)
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NTNX 12/19 $52.50 Puts
$52.50:
3.40-5.60 (+65%)


Fresh Options Ideas:
PLEASE NOTE, today is Black Friday, and all contracts listed will expire upon the early close at 1PM

SPY 11/28 $680-682 Calls*
TSLA Weekly $427.50 Calls*
AMZN Weekly $230 Calls*
TSM Weekly $290 Calls*

*Only experienced options traders should attempt to trade contracts on their expiration day


Extended Watchlist:
BEAT, KTTA, BIYA, ADTX, SMX, BEAT, ZGM, WAI, ONMD

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