Friday’s Runners, Today’s Fresh Targets

Options Review: 

As usual, we’re going to make our first order of business this morning, the highlighting of our options plays from Friday and what was performing. Three out of the five sets of ideas we formulated in Friday morning’s premarket report recorded notable intraday gains for us.

Those winning targets were the DOCU Weekly $190-175 Puts, the SMAR Weekly $65-70 Calls, and the MRVL Weekly $79-85 Calls. and while the gains weren’t earth-shattering, there were certainly plenty of strong intraday profit chances which could have been seized upon, to the tune of the following moves:

DOCU Weekly $190-175 Puts
$190:
 35.01-58.12 (+66%)
$185: 29.82-53.30 (+79%)
$180: 24.24-42.00 (+73%)
$175: 20.04-42.97 (+114%)
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SMAR Weekly $65-70 Calls
$65: 4.60-7.24 (+57%)
$70: 3.04-4.00 (+32%)
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MRVL Weekly $79-85 Calls
$79: 6.53-9.00 (+38%)
$80: 5.06-8.60 (+70%)
$85: 1.53-4.50 (+194%)


Fresh Options Ideas: 

The premarket earnings calendar is rather light this morning, but we did hash out some ideas with two out of the three reporters, as well as target some daily SPY Calls, as the markets appear to be gearing up to pare losses from Friday’s down session.

SAIC Weekly $85-90 Calls
DLHC Weekly $12.50 Calls
SPY 12/06 $453-454 Calls*

*Trading options contracts on their day of expiration carries higher risk, and should only be attempted by experienced traders


Extended Watchlist:
IGEN, TGHI, UAMM, AAPT, CGAC, MSNVF, LICH, TTCM

Fresh Options Ideas & More

Options Ideas – Form-4 Plays:

We do typically like to stick with options plays that coincide with big name earnings reporters, but we always like to scan for Form-4’s (insider transactions) and formulate ideas in those instances where we like the chart setup.

We’ve got a couple of potential targets which fit that bill with huge amounts of shares being soaked up in ASAN last week, and a large $10M block being purchased in PFSI yesterday. These transactions give us at least a reasonable confidence that those involved believe that the future looks brighter than the present.

ASAN 01/21 $110-120 Calls
PFSI 12/17 $65 Calls 


Options Ideas – Earnings Plays: 

Of course we don’t want to leave out our bread and butter, so we’ve also taken a look at what the earnings calendar has to offer this morning.

Build-A-Bear and Ambarella are a couple in that category that our catching our eye today, so we’ll hash up some ideas for those as well:

BBW 12/17 $17.50 Calls
AMBA Weekly $197.50-207.50 Calls 


Extended Watchlist:
OP, ARDX, VBIV, AUVI, SLHG, WORX, TGTX, FNMA, FMCC, INND, APHLF, ZNOG, CGAC, BTZI, IWAL, HVCW

5-Pack of Options Ideas & More

Options Success Continues: 

At the risk of sounding like a broken record, we have been really sharp with our options calls recently. We never do poorly, but the magnitude of our recent successes has been huge, thanks to a strong market and tons of earnings reporters from which to choose our quick strike ideas.

Yesterday morning we selected four sets of ideas. They all produced, but we made an error on the BBBY $31-28 Puts, which were mistakenly listed in our report as Calls. So we’re going to skip over those and simply report on the other three winners which all produced big time intraday opportunities. The MAR Weekly $160-162.50 Calls, the VRTX Weekly $182.50-187.50 Calls, and the TMUS Weekly $117-120 Calls.

Here are the ranges and total possible gains on those plays for the day:

MAR Weekly $160-162.50 Calls
$160: 1.30-7.10 (+446%)
$162.50: .60-5.05 (+742)
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VRTX Weekly $182.50-187.50 Calls
$182.50: 3.60-7.10 (+97%)
$185: 2.65-5.70 (+115%)
$187.50: 1.75-4.00 (+129%)
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TMUS Weekly $117-120 Calls
$117: 4.00-7.50 (+88%)
$118: 3.35-6.65 (+99%)
$119: 2.87-5.50 (+92%)
$120: 2.00-4.80 (+140%)


Fresh Options Ideas:
QCOM Weekly $145-155 Calls
EA Weekly $143-146 Calls
ZTS 11/19 $210-220 Calls
CI Weekly $220-225 Calls
SPY Weekly $464-465 Calls


Extended Watchlist:
SKYT, HYSR, TGGI, OPTI, CGAC, APTY, MWWC, PETZ, EVAX, ARTL, CNCE, XRTX

Wide Variety of Options Ideas & More

Albertsons Companies, Inc. ACI – Options Rehash: 

We formulated just one single set of options ideas in yesterday morning’s premarket report, zeroing in on the ACI chain and signaling our interest in tracking the ACI Weekly $29-31 Calls on the heels of the company’s second quarter earnings release.

Those figures came back positive, beating expectations on the street, and accompanied by bolstered guidance for the remainder of the fiscal year. As a result, the activity in ACI yielded us some very respectable intraday gain opportunities in our designated targets:

 ACI Weekly $29-31 Calls 
$29:1.00-2.08 (+108%)
$30: .65-1.55 (+138%)
$31: .45-1.15 (+156%)


Fresh Options Ideas:
SPY 10/20 $448-450 Calls
NFLX Weekly $635-640 Calls
TRV Weekly $155 Calls
STLD 11/19 $60-65 Calls


Green Globe International, Inc. GGII – Recap:

We were just lauding the performance of GGII in our report yesterday morning, and once again, the stock performed quite well, attaining a new high on the session for the second straight day. Here are the updated figures on the total range we’ve observed over roughly the past 5 weeks of tracking the stock.

Initial Alert: Sept 10th
Range: .0054-.0159
Gained: +194%


Extended Watchlist:
WATT, AVIR, IFRX, EDSA, KAVL, ETTX, BRNE, NOHO, QBAN, BTZI, ALYI, CGAC, BYOC, SSOF

Kicking Off a Potential-Filled Trading Week

Hydrofarm Holdings Group, Inc. HYFM – Options Update:

As a result of the relatively dry period for earnings (which will finally clear up starting next week) we’ve been formulating a lot of longer-term ideas on stocks with good technical setups. A couple of Monday’s ago, on the morning of September 27th, we signaled the HYFM 11/19 $35-40 Calls.

The stock itself saw its lows shortly thereafter, and for the past week, has been making incremental gains which have begun to produce the sort of activity that we were hoping to see.

Here are the ranges and percentage increases we’ve observed so far. With over a month still remaining prior to expiration, we wouldn’t be surprised to have to return to this one later to report further gains:

HYFM 11/19 $35-40 Calls
$35: 4.21-5.92 (+41%)
$40: 1.90-3.30 (+74%)
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Fresh Options Ideas: 
TAL Weekly $4.50-5.00 Calls
GM Weekly $58-59 Calls


Priority Aviation, Inc. PJET – Recap: 

Another play we signaled interest in toward the end of last month was PJET, which appeared in our report on the morning of September 30th, and the ensuing volatility did not disappoint.

This stock underwent a distinct dip-and-rip following our mention, going as low as .0125, before running back to .0235, for an upswing of 88% A break past .0244 this week, would put PJET into blue skies, so we’ll reserve a slot on our watchlists for it in upcoming sessions.


Extended Watchlist:
NHMD, MMTLP, IFXY, CGAC, MJWL, CFGX, SPZI, AAPT, PTGX, FLXN, TRVI, EZFL, ADMS

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