Cautious Yet Bold Options Strategy Keeps Bearing Fruit

Yesterday’s Options Success: 

It seems like the winds of fortune have been gusting in our favor for quite some time now, with the options targets we outlined in yesterday’s morning report all producing gain opportunities on some level. That makes for the fourth straight session in which every single one of our interests has given traders a shot as compounding their funds.

Our daily focus was trained on the AVAV 07/15 $75-70 Puts, the GIS 07/15 $70-72.50 Calls, and the MKC 07/15 $90-80 Puts, which all put forth some measure of intraday run in what amounted to a bit of a choppy day for the markets as a whole. Things in that regard have become rather harder to predict, but we’ve been trying very hard to select potential plays with a good risk/reward balance. Here’s where our efforts led yesterday:

AVAV 07/15 $75-70 Puts
$75: 
2.49-4.49 (+80%)
$70: 1.29-2.20 (+71%)
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GIS 07/15 $70-72.50 Calls
$70: 
2.50-5.10 (+104%)
$72.50: 1.05-3.07 (+192%)
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MKC 07/15 $90-80 Puts 
$90: 6.00-7.20 (+20%)
$85: 2.01-3.37 (+68%)
$80: .60-1.20 (+100%)


Fresh Options Ideas:
YETI 08/05 $46-47 Calls
WBA Weekly $38.50-39.50 Calls
DCT 07/15 $17.50-15 Puts
SGH 07/15 $17.50 Calls 


Extended Watchlist: 
TXTM, SEII, EMGE, HIRU, WNFT, PPCB, REVB, NRSN, ASPN, MARK, DNAY, CSCW, MULN

Hot Options Plays, New Ideas

Earnings Plays Yield Gains: 

We fared quite well with our options trading selections in yesterday morning’s premarket report, with three out of our four daily targets coming up with some really nice intraday runs for us.

The winning picks for the day were the V Weekly $207.50-212.50 Calls, the MSFT Weekly $277.50-285 Calls, and the GSK Weekly $44-46 Calls. This earnings season has been packed with opportunities left and right, and we have been doing our best to take full advantage. Today should be no different, with a mass of huge-name earnings dropping this morning, we’ll definitely be including another solid slate of options ideas in this report. .

V Weekly $207.50-212.50 Calls
$207.50: 
9.14-14.60 (+59%)
$210: 7.45-12.10 (+62%)
$212.50: 5.62-10.05 (+79%)
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MSFT Weekly $277.50-285 Calls
$277.50: 5.60-14.00 (+150%)
$280: 4.10-11.92 (+191%)
$282.50: 2.94-9.75 (+232%)
$285: 2.00-7.89 (+294%)
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GSK Weekly $44-46 Calls

$44: 1.24-1.61 (+30%)
$45: .50-95 (+90%)
$46: .15-.35 (+133%)


Fresh Options Ideas:
QCOM Weekly $143-146 Calls
PYPL Weekly $83-85 Calls
LLY Weekly $285-295 Calls
FB Weekly $190-200 Calls 


Extended Watchlist:
IDAI, STAB, CSCW, TMBR, XELA, XPON, OZSC, FLES, SING, KGKG, BMIX