Closing Out Another Fruitful Trading Week

Another Sweep of the Board on Thursday: 

We were right on target with the options trading ideas we put forth in yesterday morning’s premarket report. We included possible ideas for three different earnings reporters, and got reasonably impressive intraday results from each of them.

Our areas of interest for the session were the DDOG Weekly $83-81 Puts, the SHOP Weekly $48.50-47.50 Puts, and the CSCO Weekly $48.50-50 Calls. The moves produced ranged from very good excellent on those plays, as you can see here:

DDOG Weekly $83-81 Puts
$83:
 .45-1.91 (+324%)
$82: .30-1.30 (+333%)
$81: .20-.81 (+305%)
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SHOP Weekly $48.50-47.50 Puts
$48.50: 2.24-4.13 (+84%)
$48: 1.91-3.90 (+104%)
$47.50: 1.57-3.33 (+112%)
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CSCO Weekly $48.50-50 Calls
$48.50: 1.38-3.20 (+132%)
$49: 1.09-2.68 (+146%)
$49.50: .73-2.27 (+210%)
$50: .46-1.80 (+291%)


Fresh Options Ideas:
AN Weekly $145 Calls*
DE Weekly $412.50-417.50 Calls*
DASH Weekly $68-70 Calls*
AEM Weekly $50-45 Puts*

*Please don’t attempt to trade options on their day of expiration unless you are an experienced options trader.


Extended Watchlist:
IBIO, NOGN, JSPR, GMBL, INZY, ENZC, AHRO, FLCX, TIMCF, REED, LPHM

Last Week’s Perfection, Fresh Plays

The Perfect Trading Week: 

We are used to having success far more often than not around here, but on Friday we completed a feat that would be a rare occurrence for anybody. We can now officially declare that very single options trading idea we put forth in our reports for the entirety of last week, managed to make positive moves and afford opportunistic traders the chance at some nice gains.

Our targets to close out the week were the NET Weekly $62-64 Calls, the PYPL Weekly $78-80 Calls, and the SPY 02/10 $405-406 Calls, and here were the intraday moves they recorded for us on the session:

NET Weekly $62-64 Calls
$62:
 .44-1.00 (+127%)
$63: .30-.60 (+100%)
$64: .14-.36 (+157%)
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PYPL Weekly $78-80 Calls
$78:
 1.05-3.00 (+186%)
$79: .47-2.02 (+330%)
$80: .15-1.05 (+600%)
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SPY 02/10 $405-406 Calls
$405: 1.27-3.34 (+163%)
$406: .78-2.45 (+214%)


Fresh Options Ideas:
MNDY Weekly $140-145 Calls
FIS Weekly $67.50-65 Puts
VERA 03/17 $7.50 Calls
RILY 03/17 $40-42.50 Calls


Extended Watchlist:
QBIO, GTII, BIEI, DVLP, ENZC, CLNN, VLON, COMS, EBET, XPON

Muted Start to the Week, Fresh Ideas

Monday’s Options Recap:

The markets got off to a rough start yesterday, and that did negatively impact the scope of our options success with the plays we were monitoring, especially considering they were targets January expirations. We may yet see those rise to the occasion, but for now, our one quick-strike idea from yesterday’s premarket report did make a significant intraday move.

The SPY typically provides a lot of good intraday volatility for us, and is quite often good for solid intraday gains when timed properly. Our actual targets for yesterday were the SPY 12/19 $383-384 Calls, and these were the largest intraday swings we witnessed:

SPY 12/19 $383-384 Calls
$383:
 .65-1.45 (+123%)
$384: .38-.90 (+137%)


Fresh Options Ideas:
GIS 01/20 $85-80 Puts
PLAY 01/20 $35-36 Calls
HEI 01/20 $150 Calls


OTC Recaps:

We had another couple of plays that performed well off of yesterday’s extended watchlist. Especially on slow days for options, monitoring these daily selections of mainly OTC stocks has often proved to be a good alternative use of our time.

Starry Group Holding, Inc. STRY
Alerted: December 19th
Range: .01-.035 (+250%)

Premier Biomedical Inc. BIEI
Alerted: December 19th
Range: .0031-.0046 (+48%)


Extended Watchlist:
VWAPY, MGUY, ENZC, SHWZ, TRFE, AMIH, ICCM, ATNX, VRNA, AUVI, XCUR