4 Fresh Ideas for a New Trading Week

Friday Options Recap:

It was a little bit of a subdued finish to what was an otherwise fairly exciting week of trading on Friday. We had a limited slate of earnings reporters on the day, but still formed a few ideas that managed to make some early moves. The percentage gains weren’t quite on a level that would get us overexcited, but all contracts involved did make reasonable moves, with one lone exception.

Those ideas that we were tracking were the SPB 05/19 $65-70 Calls, the TSLA Weekly $175-177.50 Calls, and the SPY 05/12 $412.50-413 Calls. Here’s how their early positive movement played out in terms of total possible gains for quick traders:

SPB 05/19 $65-70 Calls 
$70: .83-1.69 (+104%)
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TSLA Weekly $175-177.50 Calls
$175:
 .36-.60 (+67%)
$177.50: .38-.62 (+63%)
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SPY 05/12 $412.50-413 Calls
$412.50: .20-.36 (+80%)
$413: .13-.24 (+85%)
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We’ve also been tracking the IFF 05/19 $95-90 Puts since our report from this past Tuesday the 9th, and IFF continued to decline all week, leading to some really nice new highs in those targets:
 
IFF 05/19 $95-90 Puts
$95: 2.90-12.10 (+317%)
$90: 1.79-7.20 (+302%)


Fresh Options Ideas:
SPY 05/15 $411-412 Calls*
MNDY Weekly $145-155 Calls
SHAK Weekly $66-67 Calls
NRG 06/16 $33-34 Calls 

*Trading contracts on their day of expiration should only be attempted by experienced options traders


Extended Watchlist:
SIRI, WISZ, MGOL, ALGS, OMH, LMFA, SRPT, AABB, GMPW, SEII, HDUP

Recapping Monday’s Bearish Ideas

Recapping Monday’s Bearish Ideas

After officially wrapping up our last week’s excellent performance yesterday morning, and reporting the nice gains we managed on Friday, we kept the momentum going with some fresh options ideas. We always try to feed new ideas into the mix each and every day when possible, and keep our focus on where the potential action is heaviest.

We went bearish on both NRZ and SAP, signaling the NRZ $9-8 Puts and the SAP $130-120 Puts. In both cases we had access to significant gains on the day, which were as follows:

NRZ $9-8 Puts
$9
: .78-1.14 (+46%)
$8: .20-.48 (+140%)
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SAP $130-120 Puts 
$130: 12.10-16.96 (+40%)
$125: 8.82-12.55 (+42%)
$120: 5.30-8.55 (+61%)
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Fresh Options Ideas:
AMD Weekly $83-85 Calls
MRK Weekly $79-80.50 Calls
NFLX 12/04 $510-515 Calls


Extended Watchlist:
BRTXQ, IGEN, GAXY, GMPW, VSYM, RLFTF