Looking to the SPY Amid Earnings Drought

Leaning on the SPY:

We started off the fresh trading week yesterday on fairly decent footing. We formulated a batch of three options ideas in yesterday morning’s premarket report, a couple of quick-strike plays and a longer-term idea. Both of the near-term targets looked pretty good for us on the day.

Those plays were the SPY 09/19 $385-383 Puts and the TTWO Weekly $119-121 Calls , with the latter producing larger gain opportunities by a fairly large margin as you can see here. We’re going to stick with the strategy of going bearish on the SPY once again today with a fresh target range that you can find below. We may find ourselves looking to the SPY more and more as the present earnings dry period persists.

SPY 09/19 $385-383 Puts
$385: .70-2.00 (+186%)
$384: .50-1.46 (+192%)
$383: .34-1.02 (+200%)
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TTWO Weekly $119-121 Calls
$119: 
3.50-4.00 (+17%)
$120: 3.40-5.23 (+54%)
$121: 2.40-3.50 (+46%)


Fresh Options Ideas:
SPY 09/21 $386-385 Puts
APOG 10/21 $40-45 Calls
GIII 10/21 $15-17.50 Calls


Extended Watchlist:
VRAX, MGAM, RCOR, INSW, CYDVF, BERI, BRLL, GOCOF, ATMH

Options Review, New Ideas & More

Winnebago Calls Run Quickly: 

In yesterday’s report, we went with a selection of July calls in what we would consider ‘longer-term’ ideas. For quick-strike plays we would typically look for contracts that expired at the end of the week. Out of those, the Winnebago calls produced instant results. We’ll continue to monitor these, along with the other potential plays we mentioned yesterday, over the next few weeks before they expire. Today’s fresh ideas will also include several July calls.

The specific targets that took off immediately during yesterday’s session were the  WGO 07/15 $45-50 Calls
and the moves they made were as follows:

WGO 07/15 $45-50 Calls
$45: 
3.00-5.45 (+82%)
$50: .95-2.46 (+159%)


Fresh Options Ideas:
ACN Weekly $277.50-272.50 Puts
DRI 07/15 $120-125 Calls
KBH 07/15 $27-28 Calls
APOG 07/15 $40-45 Calls


Southern Home Medical, Inc. SHOM – Recap:

Another item from our watchlist that has recently made a solid run as well, is SHOM. We flagged this OTC stock on
Tuesday morning
, and it ran to new highs yesterday. Following our mention of this play, it traded up from a low of .0008 to .0025, which marks a two-day swing of 212%


Extended Watchlist: 
CMGR, VYGVF, TXTM, GEGI, DVLP, VRUS, GOFF, AHFD, RDHL, BOXD, BHAT, SMFL,