Good Start to the Trading Week, New Plays

Solid Start to the Week: 

We got off on a good foot for Monday’s premarket report, despite a real lack of big name earnings reporters. The only two potential plays that really jumped out to us yesterday did, however, post some nice double bag moves for us on the session.

We had signaled our interest in tracking the ARLP 02/17 $22.50-25 Calls, and the GEHC Weekly $70-68.50 Puts, and we got some very nice movement from each set of ideas on the day. Today’s earnings plays deal with some much bigger names, so our week should continue along an interesting trajectory. Here’s the breakdown of the gains that were possible through yesterday’s targets:

ARLP 02/17 $22.50-25 Calls
$28:
 .48-1.05 (+119%)
$27: .10-.20 (+100%)
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GEHC Weekly $70-68.50 Puts 

$70: .30-.60 (+100%)
$69: .17-.35 (+106%)
$68.50: .15-.30 (+100%)


Fresh Options Ideas:
MCD Weekly $267.50-265 Calls
UPS Weekly $177.50-182.50 Calls
WHR Weekly $152.50-157.50 Calls
PFE Weekly $44-43 Calls


Extended Watchlist:
MSGM, CFRX, HILS, CNTX, PBLA, FOXO, GTII, CORZQ, DOLLF, ABML, PMETF, VPLM

SPY Shorts Prevail, Fresh Ideas

Friday Options Recap:

We put up a fairly good performance on Friday, with both of the quick-strike options ideas we had formulated in our premarket report for the day recording significant movement during the session. The markets in general continued to get beat up, leaving our ideas which were both bearish, to make some pretty good headway for us.

Our winning targets were the SPY 09/16 $387-384 Puts, and the ADBE Weekly $305-300 Puts. , and while the potential gains for the day weren’t earth-shattering we’d still call the following numbers to be quite solid considering the lack of earnings ammunition we’re dealing with at present. As we always say, during dry spells for earnings we have to get a bit more creative than usual, but that will never stop us from giving it the old college try!

SPY 09/16 $387-384 Puts
$387:
 2.39-5.05 (+111%)
$386: 1.85-4.15 (+124%)
$385: 1.42-3.35 (+136%)
$384: 1.09-2.65 (+143%)
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ADBE Weekly $305-300 Puts
$305: 8.13-12.47 (+53%)
$302.50: 5.46-10.34 (+89%)
$300: 2.91-7.99 (+174%)


Fresh Options Ideas:
TTWO Weekly $119-121 Calls
FDX 10/14 $150-160 Calls
SPY 09/19 $385-383 Puts


Extended Watchlist:
SNTI, PRPL, FOXO, KOLD, KNBE, SYRS, BCAN, VNTH, RITE, ATMH, ARTH