Good Start to Short Week, 4 Fresh Ideas

Recap of Tuesday’s Results:  

Things got off to a pretty decent start for us as we kicked off this holiday-shortened trading week yesterday morning. In our premarket report, we included a selection of earnings based ideas, and a couple of longer term tech setup plays. Most of what we were monitoring fared reasonably well on the day, with the exception of a set of October calls in CG. All in all, we’re pleased with how things started out this week, and are all set to increase our good fortune.

The targets that recorded good moves were the TCOM 09/15 $40-38 Puts, the BRC 09/15 $50-55 Calls, the CRMT 09/15 $105-100 Puts, and the TSEM 10/20 $31 Calls.There wasn’t much movement in the BRC $50’s but everything else performed quite nicely as you can see below:

TCOM 09/15 $40-38 Puts
$40:
1.70-3.00 (+76%)
$39: 1.10-2.20 (+100%)
$38: .75-1.42 (+89%)
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BRC 09/15 $50-55 Calls
$50:          n/a
$55: 1.80-4.70 (+161%)
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CRMT 09/15 $105-100 Puts
$105: 5.50-8.18 (+49%)
$100: 2.50-5.50 (+120%)
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TSEM 10/20 $31 Calls
$31: .55-.80 (+45%)


Fresh Options Ideas:
ROKU Weekly $89-92 Calls
GTLB Weekly $51-53 Calls
AVAV 09/15 $110-115 Calls
PLAB 09/15 $22.50-20 Puts 


Extended Watchlist:
NBSE, TRVN, MRIN, SST, NVOS, FOXO, ROKU, ICCT, FLJ, BFLY, USEG, FNKO

Blue Horseshoe Stocks: Capping Off a Solid Week

Another Great Week in Options Trading

If you follow our reports and performance closely, you’ll know that we consistently deliver multiple solid quick-strike options ideas on a weekly basis, and this week has been no exception.

Our premarket report yesterday included fresh near-term targets for AMD and UBER, which both produced chances for significant intraday profits, which were as follows:

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. AMD 08/16 $30.50-31.50 Calls
$30.50 Calls – Range:
 1.47-3.80 – Max Gain: 156%
$56 Calls – Range: .98-3.50 – Max Gain: 257%
$56.50 Calls – Range: .70-3.00  – Max Gain: 329%

Uber, Inc. UBER Weekly $41-42.50 Calls
$56 Calls – Range: 2.15-3.10 – Max Gain: 44%
$56.50 Calls – Range: 1.90-2.77  – Max Gain: 46%
$57 Calls – Range: 1.55-2.52 – Max Gain: 63%
$56.50 Calls – Range: 1.44-2.24  – Max Gain: 56%


Fresh Ideas: 

It wouldn’t be a full-fledged Friday morning report without a couple of new ideas to carry us down the home stretch on another great trading week, and into the next. Here’s what’s hitting our scanner this morning:

FNKO 08/16 $25-30 Calls 

DXC 08/16 $40-37.50 Puts

*We’re also going to radar GHST, thanks to our faithful subscriber, Mark!


Extended Watchist: 
RKDA, LLEX, ELY, VYGR, ONVO, YELP, MRNS, 

Blue Horseshoe Stocks: Reviewing Recent Winners

STOCK RECAPS

Much of our focus gets devoted to options ideas these days, as they represent the greatest chance for large short term gains for traders. However, we still scan every day for stocks, and we wanted to begin this new trading week by highlighting a few of our recent picks that have met or exceeded our expectations.

Bio-Path Holdings, Inc. BPTH – Beginning with the least recent, roughly five weeks ago on January 23rd, BPTH was a stock we tagged as a bottom-watch play. The stock essentially traded sideways for the next month, only making nominal gains. That is until the latter half of last week, when it began to heat up on Thursday, and subsequently explode on Friday, performing beautifully on the day. The stock logged the number one gain on the entire NASDAQ, as it traded up from a low of 2.65 before reaching a high of 8.84.

That works out to a mind-melting 234% single-session rise on massive volume, which is extremely uncommon for big board plays. Cheers to anyone who caught a ride on this shooting star!
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Lexicon Pharma, Inc. LXRX – Appearing in Friday morning’s report was LXRX, which certainly didn’t see the level of activity as the previously mentioned play, but still posted positive figures on the day. From a low of 5.55, the stock rose as high as 7.07, marking a comparatively small but respectable intraday increase of 27%
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China Internet Nationwide Financial Services, Inc. CIFS – Also included in Friday’s report was CIFS, which also had a reasonably strong session following our alert. The low came in at 2.30 before the stock surged into the close at its high of day of 3.25. That represents a solid intraday gain of 41% We’ll also want to see if the stock can carry some of that momentum at the close, over to this fresh trading week.


Funko, Inc. FNKO – Options Review

We also signaled our interest in the FNKO 03/15 $22.50 & 25 Calls on Friday, and we got solid performances out of those contracts. The $22.50 Calls ran from .28-.70 for a gain of 150%
while the $25 also recorded a 150% pop from .10-.25.
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Fresh Options Ideas:
SPY 03/04 $280.50-282 Calls*

*Never trade options on their day of expiration unless you are a highly experienced trader with access to disposable funds!


Extended Watchlist:
MYOK, OPHT, NK, CPST, SLS, TRHC, RKDA, MBOT, FTNW, FCEL