4 Fresh Options Plays to Finish the Week

SPY Runners, Earnings Plays: 

We played both sides of the fence on the SPY yesterday, signaling a strike range of both puts and calls in our premarket report. We only consider such a thing when the markets seem due for a choppy day, and we were certainly correct in assuming that would be the case. Thanks to a mixed session, we got just what we were looking for with the SPY Puts doing their thing in the morning, and the calls claiming the spotlight for the remainder of the day. Our pair of earnings plays also yielded results, giving us the third consecutive session of 100% accuracy on our ideas.

The specific targets we were zeroed in on were the SPY 03/11 $424-422 Puts, the SPY 03/11 $422-424 Calls, the JD Weekly $60-58 Puts, and the ASAN 03/18 $40-35 Puts.

SPY 03/11 $424-422 Puts
$424: 2.84-5.20 (+83%)
$423: 2.44-4.60 (+86%)
$422: 2.14-4.06 (+90%)
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SPY 03/11 $422-424 Calls
$422:
 2.49-5.51 (+121%)
$423: 2.05-4.74 (+131%)
$424: 1.65-4.01 (+143%)
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JD Weekly $60-58 Puts
$60:
 5.04-8.48 (+99%)
$59: 4.10-7.50 (+114%)
$58: 3.39-6.77 (+126%)
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ASAN 03/18 $40-35 Puts
$40: 3.49-5.40 (+68%)
$35: 1.30-2.40 (+87%)


Fresh Options Ideas:
BKE 03/18 $36.85-39.35 Calls
FUTU Weekly $29-30 Calls*
ULTA Weekly $375-385 Calls*
SPY 03/11 $428-430 Calls*

*Please use caution when trading options on their day of expiration. It should only be attempted by experienced traders with access to disposable funds!


Extended Watchlist:
FOSL, GFAI, EXN, PZG, VEON, TRX, BOPO, KGKG, DPLS, GTNM, TONR, KYNC, CLSD

Earnings Related Ideas & More

Academy Sports and Outdoors, Inc. ASO – Recap:

We began tracking the ASO 06/18 $35-40 Calls a week ago today, in our premarket report on the 8th. Over the five ensuing sessions, the stock managed to achieve higher highs each day.

That momentum provided for some reasonably impressive multi-bag swings in our targeted contract sets:

ASO 06/18 $35-40 Calls
$35: 3.10-6.95 (+124%)
$40: .80-2.32 (+190%)

The company will also be holding a conference call today at 10:15 AM Eastern featuring Chairman/President/CEO Ken Hicks, along with other board members and executives. A link will be up on https://investors.academy.com at the designated time.


Fresh Options Ideas:
ORCL Weekly $82-83 Calls
EH Weekly $40-45 Calls 


PHI Group, Inc. PHIL – Recap:

Also in that same June 8th report, we tagged PHIL, a subpenny play that underwent a nice dip-and-rip and ran right into penny territory.

From a low of .0055, we’ve witnessed the stock make a run to its new high of .015 yesterday. That works out to a highly respectable run of 173% Volume over the same period has been greatly increased as well, so we’ll continue to keep an eye peeled for continued momentum.


Extended Watchlist:
BSSP, EFIR, RGGI, GTEH, MJWL, RSHN, GSAC, VMCS, TRCH, CLSD, CANF, OPGN

Huge Stock Moves & More

Rite Aid Corp. RAD – Review

We were just talking about RAD in our premarket report from last Friday, and we wanted to close out this week by bring up the very respectable run it has produced. The morning of our report, the stock saw a low of 12.11, and subsequently registered a new high yesterday at 19.22 (+59%). As of the premarket high of 22.44 established in the premarket this morning, we’ve witnessed a one-week run of 85% from Rite Aid.

We’re also going to signal a couple of different sets of options ideas to track in the RAD chain over the next week, and beyond. We’re going to radar the RAD 1/03 $21-23 Calls, as well as the RAD 04/17 $27-30 Calls.


Other Updates
 
We also wanted to highlight some mega-moves made by stocks we’ve placed on watch recently, once again proving conclusively that options aren’t our only forte.

We tagged Clearside Biomedical, Inc. CLSD in our extended watchlist on October 18th, and witnessed a low of .75 the following day. The stock has been gradually ramping its way up in the several weeks since then, continually registering new highs, of which it hit 3.95 yesterday. That’s an incredible increase of 427%
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We put Oncolytics Biotech, Inc. ONCY on watch back on November 14th, and have watched as the stock began to edge its way up, before absolutely exploding over the last week. Our observed range on this one in just over a month has been .82-2.92, a gain of 256%
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Many of our longer term readers will remember how significant the gains were out of OWC Pharmaceutical Research Corp. OWCP as we first came across it at the end of 2016 when it went on a mega run from subpenny levels to over 2.00. When it appeared in yesterday’s watchlist it was time to start paying close attention to it again. OWCP made a 94% intraday move yesterday from a low of .028 to a high of .0543. Volume has been ramping up the last few sessions and with this type of momentum, we’ll definitely continue to keep an eye on it.


Extended Watchlist:
KWBT, FCEL, TRQ, SPPI, AQMS, AMRS, PT, ASRT, OBSV