More Winning Options Plays

CRWD & PDD Options Update: 

We’ve been cruising right along this week with some really nice options plays yielding up considerable gain chances for ourselves and our readers. Our newsletters yesterday morning contained a bullish and a bearish idea in the CRWD and PDD chains, respectively.

Both companies had just released their earnings reports, and appeared to be gearing up to go in opposite directions. We targeted the CRWD Weekly $197.50-202.50 Calls and the PDD Weekly $152.50-148 Puts, and in both cases, our hunches paid off, with the CRWD ideas clearly being the more potent of the two. .

Here is the rundown of the single-session performances recorded by these plays: 

CRWD Weekly $197.50-202.50 Calls
$197.50: 3.15-14.00 (+344%)
$200: 2.40-12.07 (+403%)
$202.50: 1.86-10.00 (+438%)
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PDD Weekly $12.50-148 Puts
$152.50:
 8.01-12.95 (+62%)
$150: 6.28-11.25 (+79%)
$149: 5.00-10.02 (+101%)
$148: 6.45-10.15 (+57%)


Fresh Options Ideas: 

We’ve got another batch of earnings calendar plays this morning in the solar and retail spaces. Here are the chains and possible strike ranges that we find interesting today:

CSIQ Weekly $43.50-46 Calls 
WOOF Weekly $25 Calls
WSM Weekly $145-155 Calls 


Extended Watchlist: 
ICBU, NRPI, IMTL, MDRM, FORW, WARM, LQMT, BRTX, GRLT, ADTM

Fresh Options Plays, Friday’s Multi-Baggers

SolarWinds Corp. SWI – Bottom Watch Play

Many SWI shareholders have been running for the hills following the company’s software being at the center of a major global hacking effort last week, and that’s precisely why we are becoming interested in the stock as a bottom-watch play.

SWI is apparently on track to report a big year-over-year earnings increase, and while the full ramifications of the company’s role in the breaches is not yet known, we want to get out ahead of the crowd and begin monitoring it for a bottom-bounce entry point nonetheless.

Not only will we track the stock, but we’re going to formulate a longer-term options idea to monitor over the next couple of months, with the SWI 02/19 $12.50-17.50 Calls.


Options Reviews

We signaled just two individual contracts for observation on Friday morning, the DRI Weekly $115 Calls and the WGO Weekly $60 Calls, and in both cases, our readers and ourselves had the opportunity to reap multi-bag gains.

DRI Weekly $115 Calls
$77: .75-2.31 (+208%)
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WGO Weekly $60 Calls
$255: 
1.25-4.55 (+264%)
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Fresh Options Ideas:
NKE Weekly (12/24) $142-145 Calls
SPY 12/23 $365-367 Calls 


Extended Watchlist:
ABML, SFOR, SHMP, APYP, PASO, GRLT, PVDG

Blue Horseshoe Stocks: GRLT Recap, Options Ideas & More

Healthy & Tasty Brands Corp. GRLT

In Friday’s morning report, we tagged GRLT, a super-subpenny play, for observation and the stock did make a nice initial move right out of the starting gate. It had been continually building a higher base level of support since the end of August, and continued that trend as it ran from .0005-.0007; a 40% jump. The move came on approximately 3X the 3-month average volume, and GRLT did manage to hold a PPS of .0006 into the close.

This is one that we’ll continue to watch for possible intraweek swing-trade opportunities in the near future. As we mentioned in Friday’s report, we’ll need to see it maintain support at or above the current 50DMA of .0004 in order for it to hold our attention moving forward.


Amazon.com, Inc. AMZN – Options Update

One of our main points of focus on Friday was an idea we formulated for the AMZN options chain. Looking at the activity on the AMZN chart as it was breaking out, we came up with an extended-term target of the AMZN 10/16 $550 Calls  and we saw some immediate response from those contracts. They traded in a daily range from 10.17 up to 11.89 marking a solid 17% increase.

If AMZN can continue its uptrend to the point of testing it’s annual highs, our targeted Calls will be pushed deep into the money, and in that case, would produce further opportunities down the road.


Apple, Inc. AAPL _ Options Idea

AAPL is gapping up this morning on positive pre-sale numbers for the new iPhone 6S Plus, and we’re going to go ahead and formulate an idea for some possible intraday/intraweek options-trading opportunities.

We want to signal our interest in AAPL Weekly $115-116.50 Calls on the heels of what could be a potential dip-and-rip scenario on the chart. Either way, we’ll be watching AAPL activity closely as we kick off this new trading week.


Extended Watchlist:
TBEV, ATHI, SANP, BPMX, ZUMZ(New 52-wk lows)