A Good Start to the Week, 4 Fresh Ideas

Monday’s Options Runners: 

We kicked things off for the week on a good note yesterday. Another day, another excellent performance for potential options trading targets we highlighted in our premarket report. Out of the four target sets we chose to put on our watchlist, three of those came back with some highly respectable intraday gain opportunities.

Our winning targets were the SPY 01/09 $389-391 Calls, the CMC 01/20 $50 Calls, and the FISV Weekly $100-102 Calls. Out of those three, the SPY was definitely the way to go for the biggest gain chances on the day. Here’s the breakdowns of the kinds of moves we witnessed:

SPY 01/09 $389-391 Calls
$389: 
1.58-4.70 (+197%)
$390: 1.10-3.77 (+243%)
$391: .71-2.82 (+297%)
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CMC 01/20 $50 Calls
$50: 1.86-2.80 (+104%)
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FISV Weekly $100-102 Calls
$100: 2.40-3.00 (+25%)
$101: 1.73-2.44 (+60%)
$102: 1.10-1.70 (+54%)


Fresh Options Ideas:
BABA 01/20 $111-113 Calls
FRO 01/20 $13-14 Calls
ACI 01/20 $20-21 Calls
PSMT 01/20 $60-65 Calls 


Extended Watchlist:
PRE, PBLA, VYNE, JSPR, SHC, VS, SIDU, LIACF, CLGCF, CORZQ, CEOS

Blue Horseshoe Stocks: PANW Pops & More

Palo Alto Networks, Inc. PANW

Fresh for yesterday’s morning report, we offered up an idea for the PANW chain, the PANW Weekly $215-222.50 Calls. With the aid of an excellent session for the markets as a whole, PANW went with the trend and produced enough intraday movement to provide us with significant single-session gain opportunities.

Here were the maximum possible gains that were on the table for the day, which were, quite frankly, very impressive:

$215 Calls – Range: .20-2.06 – Max Gain: 930%
$217.50 Calls – Range: .15-1.05 – Max Gain: 600%
$220 Calls – Range: .06-.38 – Max Gain: 533%
$222.50 Calls – Range: .06-.20 – Max Gain: 233%

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PVH Corp. PVH

Our next order of business as we close out this holiday-shortened week is to provide further updates on PVH. We scored multi-bag gains with all three of our highlighted contracts,  the PVH 09/20 $75-85 Calls on Wednesday, and cautioned readers that more gains could be on the way in yesterday’s report.

That’s exactly what occurred, so this morning we are updating the highs on our ideas, which extend the total possible profits over a two-day span by a significant margin. 

$75 Calls – Range: 5.10-9.89 – Max Gain: 94%
$80 Calls – Range: 2.00-5.60 – Max Gain: 180%
$85 Calls – Range: .55-2.49 – Max Gain: 353%


Fresh Options Idea:
SPY Weekly $298-299 Calls*
LULU Weekly $197.50-200 Calls

*Please don’t attempt to trade options with a weekly expiration on Fridays unless you are an advanced level trader with access to disposable funds!


Extended Watchlist:
MNK, FRO, GCO

Blue Horseshoe Stocks: Big Options Success

OPTIONS RECAP

Both of the fresh options ideas we submitted in yesterday morning’s premarket report turned out to be multi-bag winners, with the MCD $170’s turning in the winning card of the day with nearly a three thousand percent pop!

McDonald’s Corp. MCD

We selected thethe MCD Weekly $165-172.50 Calls yesterday, and as we just stated, one of those contracts absolutely exploded for close to a thirty-bagger! All the other contracts in our highlighted range posted big-time gains on the day as well.

$165 Calls – Range: 4.10-12.50 – Max Gain: 205%
$167.50 Calls – Range: 1.24-10.34 – Max Gain: 734%
$170 Calls – Range: .28-8.48 – Max Gain: 2929%
$172.50 Calls – Range: .67-5.85 – Max Gain: 773%
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SPDR S&P 500 ETF (SPY) – The other plays we had placed on our radar yesterday morning was the SPY 10/31 $275-277 Calls as we awaited a recovery from this week’s early losses. While the markets didn’t gain any ground from the open, there was a big dip-and-rip scenario which allowed for some very solid gains in our designated plays.

$275 Calls – Range: 1.11-3.00 – Max Gain: 170%
$275.50 Calls – Range: 1.02-2.69 – Max Gain: 164%
$276 Calls – Range: .68-1.93 – Max Gain: 184%
$276.50 Calls – Range: .74-2.13 – Max Gain: 188%
$277 Calls – Range: .65-1.93 – Max Gain: 197%
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Fresh Options Idea:
The Boeing Co. BA Weekly $357.50-367.50
Caterpillar, Inc.CAT 11/16 $120-123 Calls


Barrick Gold Corp. ABX

We want to provide a quick update on a recent tag of ours this morning. Exactly 4 weeks ago to the day, we placed ABX on watch, and the stock has enjoyed a continuous uphill climb ever since, even despite the markets at large having a rough couple of weeks.

Subsequent to our alert on the 24th of last month, we witnessed a low of 10.72, and yesterday the stock reached a PPS of 14.10, marking a solid 32% increase, which is nothing to sneeze at with a $10+ stock in just a month. We’ll continue to track its movements going forward.


Extended Watchlist: 
ZIXI, ACB, TOPS, NDRA, ACB, ESEA, FRO, AGRX, CPHI