Earnings Plays Buck the Poor Market Trend

Options Buck the Trend:

It was another dreary day for the markets yesterday, as most stocks took a beating for the entire session. Thankfully it wasn’t too brutal for us, as two of our three daily options ideas posting significant upswings on the day. A bearish play we’ve been tracking since Monday morning’s premarket report also tacked on a solid new high as well.

Our daily targets to blast off in defiance of the overall trends on the heels of their earnings drops were the TJX Weekly $56-58 Calls, and the ZIM Weekly $66-68 Calls. Monday’s idea was the WIX Weekly $70 Puts. Here were the overall moves and total possible profits associated with those targets: 

TJX Weekly $56-58 Calls
$56: 
3.70-7.00 (+89%)
$57: 2.75-5.85 (+113%)
$57.50: 2.41-5.52 (+129%)
$58: 1.84-5.03 (+173%)
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ZIM Weekly $66-68 Calls
$66: .25-1.00 (+300%)
$67: .20-.70 (+250%)
$68: .20-.55 (+175%)
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WIX Weekly $70 Puts
$70: 2.80-8.00 (+186%)


Fresh Options Ideas: 
SPY 05/20 $390-388 Puts
KSS Weekly $41-39 Puts
BJ Weekly $55 Calls
SNPS Weekly $270-280 Calls


Pacific Ventures Group, Inc. PACV – OTC Recap:

On the stock side of things, one of the OTC plays we flagged in yesterday morning’s extended watchlist
had a monster day, so we wanted to pass along a brief update on PACV’s daily performance. From a morning low of .0223, it blasted off to a high of .11, which represents an intraday run of 393%


Extended Watchlist:
INDP, SIGA, TNXP, IMAC, GTCH, INTK, ICOA, GGSM, MJWL, 

Friday 4 Winners, Today’s 4 Fresh Plays

Friday’s Options Gainers:

We closed out the trading week on Friday morning in grand fashion, highlighting a 4-pack of fresh earnings-related options ideas for the day. Despite the markets sliding back and three out of the four being bullish ideas, we scored solid gain opportunities in everything we were focused on, which is fairly typical around here.

The targets that we were interested in tracking in Friday’s premarket report were the KMB Weekly $130-134 Calls, the SLB Weekly $40.50-41 Calls, the HCA Weekly 245-237.50 Puts, and the SNAP Weekly $29-30 Calls. As we said, every idea we were tracking produced several chances for really nice daily gains, including a ten and twelve-bagger on those SLB Calls, as well as a nine and thirteen-bagger in the SNAP Calls!

Be sure to check out today’s four fresh plays below, after perusing these intraday figures from Friday: 

KMB Weekly $130-134 Calls
$130:
 8.30-11.30 (+36%)
$131: 6.15-9.40 (+53%)
$132: 6.50-8.55 (+32%)
$133: 5.30-7.50 (+42%)
$134: 4.80-7.30 (+52%)
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SLB Weekly $40.50-41 Calls
$40.50: .25-2.75 (+1000%)
$41: .18-2.40 (+1233%)
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HCA Weekly 245-237.50 Puts
$245: 8.90-31.83 (+258%)
$240: 3.70-29.65 (+701%)
$237.50: 3.95-23.65 (+499%)
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SNAP Weekly $29-30 Calls
$29: .10-1.00 (+900%)
$29.50: .03-.44 (+1366%)
$30: .30-1.47 (+390%)


Fresh Options Ideas:
SPY 04/25 $426-424 Puts
KO Weekly $64-66 Calls
PHG 05/20 $30-25 Puts
OTIS 05/20 $70-75 Calls 


Extended Watchlist:
IGEX, SYSX, KGKG, TGGI, ICOA, NKTX, TWTR, ERYP, ARDX, SBFM, QNRS, 

Options Review, Special Reminder

Friday’s Options Runners: 

As is typical for us, we’re going to kick things off this morning by reviewing the winning options trading ideas that we formulated in our previous report. On Friday morning, we provided three sets of potential targets for our readers, and thanks to some help from a furiously bullish day for the markets in general, all three idea sets bore fruit.

We were specifically after the SPY 02/25 $428-431 Calls, the, SQ Weekly $110-115 Calls and the COIN Weekly $177.50-182.50 Calls. Many of the gains we saw in those contracts soared high into multibag territory with the following impressive daily runs:

SPY 02/25 $428-431 Calls
$428: 2.28-9.87 (+333%)
$429: 1.76-8.84 (+402%)
$430: 1.33-7.96 (+498%)
$431: .97-6.98 (+620%)
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SQ Weekly $110-115 Calls
$110:
 2.68-10.65 (+297%)
$111: 2.12-9.15 (+332%)
$112: 1.64-8.64 (+427%)
$113: 1.42-7.40 (+421%)
$114: 1.15-6.40 (+456%)
$115: .89-5.75 (+546%)
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COIN Weekly $177.50-182.50 Calls
$177.50:
 1.32-3.51 (+166%)
$180: .85-2.10 (+147%)
$182.50: .49-1.20 (+145%)


Imperial Petroleum, Inc. IMPP – Recap: 

The impressive run in IMPP continued on Friday to close out the week. We had just recapped its performance in our morning report, and it produced another solid session and is gapping to new highs this morning. From our observed low of .631, the stock has now risen 310% as of its premarket high of 2.59 this morning!


Special Reminder: 

We would urge our readers NOT to miss out on tomorrow morning’s special report, which will feature a brand new point of focus in a future-forward market space with unlimited growth potential! Scan your inboxes diligently at the normal time tomorrow morning to get in on this prime opportunity!


Extended Watchlist:
MULN, INDO, ALF, HMBL, SYSX, INTK, ILUS, ICOA, JPEX, DPLS, ZAAG