Another Week of Promising Opportunities on Deck

Kicking Off Another Exciting Trading Week:

We couldn’t have written a better ticket for ourselves last week in terms of all the excellent options success we achieved, really, throughout the entire week. We might have had one idea through that whole span that didn’t provide us a chance at quick returns. As for Friday, not only did all three of our designated targets for the day record nice moves, but we got some incredible new highs in the MOMO Weekly $5-6 Calls we signaled for observation on Thursday, after MOMO stock itself ran from 5.28-9.49 (+80%)

As for the rest, Friday’s fresh plays were the TSLA Weekly $170-172.50 Calls, the SPY 12/09 $394-396 Calls, and the NFLX Weekly $312.50-317.50 Calls, and here is the breakdown of the kinds of gains that were available, including the MONSTER moves from MOMO on the order of 1200-2000% on the day!

TSLA Weekly $170-172.50 Calls
$170: 4.36-12.50 (+187%)
$172.50: 2.70-10.00 (+270%)
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SPY 12/09 $394-396 Calls
$394:
1.76-3.69 (+110%)
$395: 1.28-2.82 (+120%)
$396: .88-2.10 (+139%)
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NFLX Weekly $312.50-317.50 Calls
$312.50: 6.65-16.50 (+148%)
$315: 4.95-14.00 (+143%)
$317.50: 3.70-11.60 (+213%)
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MOMO Weekly $5-6 Calls
$5: 1.00-4.00 (+300%)
$5.50: .30-3.90 (+1200%)
$6: .15-3.15 (+2000%)


Fresh Options Ideas:
COUP Weekly $76-79 Calls
SPY 12/12 $393-394 Calls


Extended Watchlist:
APVO, HTGM, HZNP, TNXP, BOIL, CTM, NLST, BRLL, RJDG, ADHC

Going Bearish on Earnings Reporters

Options Review:

We’ve been back on our Midas Touch options trading business over the last several sessions, and yesterday morning was no different. We were just patting ourselves on the back for 100% accuracy on the previous session’s bangers, and we managed to do it again to start this holiday-shortened week.

We signaled ranges on a couple of plays, highlighting the SPY 11/22 $469-470 Calls, as well as going short on the CRNC 12/17 $105-95 Puts. Both turned out to be excellent notions, and the board was fully green for yet another day. The end of this week will be rather subdued, with a day off for Thanksgiving and just a half trading day for Black Friday, so it’s good we’re getting these in now.

Here are the total possible profits that could have been banked off of yesterday’s targets:

SPY 11/22 $469-470 Calls
$469:
 1.99-4.50 (+126%)
$470: .62-2.40 (+287%)
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CRNC 12/17 $105-95 Puts 
$105: 15.00-22.46 (+50%)
$100: 9.70-18.20 (+88%)
$95: 6.00-13.49 (+125%)


Fresh Options Ideas: 
URBN Weekly $35-33 Puts
DLTR Weekly $132-130 Puts
BBY Weekly $122-119 Puts


Extended Watchlist: 
ISPC, KTTA, PTPI, APVO, QLGN, AADI, TNXP, OSCI, VIZC, PUGE, TIPS, LVGI

Blue Horseshoe Stocks: Perfectly-Timed Bottom Plays & More

Allakos, Inc. ALLK –  Recap

We began tracking ALLK on Monday morning, and formulated some options ideas ($45-60) which worked for us in Monday’s session, bringing in some nice gain opportunities. Then yesterday rolled around and we shared the huge news reported by the company in our premarket report along with the gains that our options ideas made.

The news on ALLK proved to be very influential on the activity of the stock, pushing it even further than Monday’s big surge had taken it. From the low that morning of 60.34, ALLK has run all the way up to a new high yesterday at 85.40, which marked a two-day upswing of 42%

While the lower end of our tracked options range was too deep in the money to see any real progress, the $60 Calls remained in play, and hit a high of 23.82. From our observed low of 6.75 on Monday, those contracts rose by a whopping 253%
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We also signaled interest in the Innovative Industrial Properties, Inc. IIPR 08/16 $100-105 Calls 
yesterday, and those got off to a modest, yet promising start. The $100’s traded in a range from 6.50-7.90 for a rise of 22%, while the $105’s ran 23% from 4.50-5.90. We’ll continue to monitor these ideas into their expiration next week.
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Fresh Ideas: 
CVS Weekly $55.50-57 Calls
SPY Weekly $286-285 Puts



Durect Corp DRRX


We also want to highlight the incredible performance that DRRX has had this summer to finish things up this morning. We tagged the stock for observation on May 28th, at which time we observed a low of .50, and it turned out to be a great nbottom call, as it hasn’t looked back since.

Slow and steady growth over the past two months has brought DRRX to a new high of 1.44 this week. That represents an overall increase of 188% in the time we’ve been observing this play.


Extended Watchist: 
MRNA, EVH, CPE, ENDP, AVGR, TVIX, APVO, ONVO