Closing Out a Great Week with Strength

Thursday Options Recap:

We have been rolling right along on the options front this week, coming up with four sets of winning ideas in each of last three consecutive sessions. In our premarket report for Thursday morning, we provided readers with a varied set of potential targets to watch, and once again, all four yielded intraday gain opportunities. We are very proud to be able to come up with good ideas on a daily basis for our readers the vast majority of the time, and we certainly upheld that standard this week.

We were focused on the GIII 12/16 $17.50-15 Puts, the DG Weekly $245-240 Puts, the SPLK Weekly $83-85 Calls, and the SNPS Weekly $360-370 Calls. The markets as a whole experienced somewhat of a choppy session, but our items of interest produced the following intraday runs and profit chances:

GIII 12/16 $17.50-15 Puts
$17.50:
5.00-5.55 (+11%)
$15: 2.50-3.20 (+28%)
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DG Weekly $245-240 Puts
$245: 6.00-14.10 (+135%)
$242.50: 5.50-10.72 (+95%)
$240: 4.10-9.30 (+126%)
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SPLK Weekly $83-85 Calls
$83: 3.45-8.80 (+155%)
$84: 2.59-7.60 (+193%)
$85: 2.07-6.61 (+219%)
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SNPS Weekly $360-370 Calls
$360:
 6.50-8.40 (+29%)
$370: 2.45-4.70 (+92%)


Fresh Options Ideas:
ZS Weekly $131 Puts
MRVL Weekly $43.50-42.50 Puts
ULTA Weekly $470-475 Calls
SMAR 12/16 $35-40 Calls


Extended Watchlist:
ASTA, PMOMF, IGEX, PRDL, PVCT, BRLL, AVXL, RIGL, SOXS, RMED, TOPS, EOSE

Sweeping the Board with Options Runners

Clean Options Sweep:

Amid a huge day for the markets yesterday, our daily options ideas also bore fruit. We’ve missed on exactly one of the many targets we’ve formulated all week, demonstrating a fairly routine level of accuracy for us. Our regular readers are surely accustomed to our high hit rate, and as for all of you newcomers, you will begin to see that we run a pretty tight ship around here. Each day consists of a review of the previous sessions interests, a grouping of fresh options ideas wherever possible, and an extended watchlist of both small and large cap stocks to watch based on their premarket activity.

Yesterday’s premarket report brought three ideas for the day, and those targets were the MRNA Weekly $162.50-167.50 Calls, the SBUX Weekly $84-86 Calls, and the PYPL Weekly $98-101 Calls, with MRNA and SBUX both showing out as the big winners. Here are the intraday moves recorded by our designated plays:

MRNA Weekly $162.50-167.50 Calls
$162.50: 5.75-26.46 (+360%)
$165: 6.15-24.20 (+293%)
$167.50: 3.65-21.70 (+494%)
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SBUX Weekly $84-86 Calls
$84: 1.22-4.00 (+228%)
$85: .72-3.15 (+332%)
$86: .37-2.28 (+516%)
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PYPL Weekly $98-101 Calls
$98:
 3.43-4.60 (+39%)
$99: 2.85-3.95 (+39%)
$100: 2.28-3.28 (+44%)
$101: 1.83-2.67 (+46%)


Fresh Options Ideas:
CI Weekly $277.50-282.50 Calls
COP Weekly $92-93 Calls
BABA Weekly $98-101 Calls
FTNT 08/19 $56-55 Puts


Extended Watchlist: 
TOMDF, INND, CYDY, IGEX, INKW, PSWW, GWHP, ILIM, TWOH, HZEN, MF, ALNA, EMBK, GRNA, SOPA, NNVC, XCUR, CCXI, EFSH

Yesterday’s Hitters, Today’s New Ideas

Tuesday’s Big Plays:

Things continued to go rather well for us on the options trading front yesterday. We stick our necks out to come up with quality trading ideas on a daily basis, and while it can sometimes prove challenging, we always seem to get the job done in respectable fashion. Of course it helps significantly that the markets have been especially volatile, as they have been this earnings season, to ratchet up the opportunities for daytraders. We hit on three out of the four ideas in which we were interested.

The potential plays we targeted in yesterday morning’s premarket report that went on to record big gains were the UBER Weekly $26.50-27.50 Calls, the MAR Weekly $160-162.50 Calls, and the CAT Weekly $192.50-187.50 Puts. Lets have a look at the type of intraday movement they provided for us during yesterday’s session.

UBER Weekly $26.50-27.50 Calls
$26.50:
 1.40-2.98 (+113%)
$27: 1.14-2.60 (+128%)
$27.50: .89-2.15 (+142%)
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MAR Weekly $160-162.50 Calls
$160: 1.05-3.40 (+224%)
$162.50: .52-2.10 (+320%)
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CAT Weekly $192.50-187.50 Puts 
$192.50: 4.95-9.50 (+92%)
$190: 3.40-6.87 (+102%)
$187.50: 2.20-5.15 (+134%)


Fresh Options Ideas:
PYPL Weekly $98-101 Calls
SBUX Weekly $84-86 Calls
MRNA Weekly $162.50-167.50 Calls


Extended Watchlist: 
EAR, AMTD, APDN, HSDT, CEMI, TOUR, PSTX, OPTT, SIRC, IGEX, OZSC, EFSH, TWOH