Tag: ILST

Wrapping Up Another Interesting Trading Week

Jabil, Inc. JBL – Options Recap: 

As we’ve been mentioning recently, we are continuing to fight our way through the heart of a major earnings drought. Case in point- there are ZERO pre or post-market reporters on the calendar for today. Yesterday was was also quite dry with the exception of JBL, for which we formulated an options ideas in our premarket report.

We designated the JBL Weekly $50-55 Calls as our targets of interest, and they exhibited some nice intraday activity; the $55’s in particular. The total ranges and possible gains on those targets were as follows:

JBL Weekly $50-55 Calls
$50: 6.45-8.10 (+26%)
$55: 1.10-3.47 (+215%)

Fresh Options Ideas: 

Yesterday’s post-market earnings releases by companies with at least a billion-dollar market cap are our only source of earnings-related ideas to close out the week today, and the calendar was limited to just two.

We’ll go ahead and set some potential targets in both of those options chains, but be advised that these are weeklies, and trading options on their day of expiration should be undertaken only with experience and extreme caution as premiums will begin to evaporate. Only play with what you can afford to lose under a worst-case scenario!

ADBE Weekly $555-570 Calls
SWBI Weekly $20 Calls

Goff Corp. GOFF – Review:

We began tracking GOFF after putting it on our watchlist on May 13th, and we’ve mentioned it a couple of times since then as well.

The stock has made an absolutely massive run from our observed low subsequent to our report in May, which came in at .033, and culminated in a new high of .2369 yesterday. That represents a monster move of 618% in just a shade over a month’s time!

Extended Watchlist:
ANPC, UTME, GERN, CYBL, FUTL, VMSI, JPEX, PPJE, ILST, ICOA

Blue Horseshoe Stocks: MSFT, ILST Updates & More

Microsoft Corp. MSFT

Our closing thoughts on Friday were pertaining to a range of weekly options calls that we found attractive, namely the MSFT Weekly $51-53.50 Calls. They turned out to be our top picks of the day, with every single contract set making multiple intraday swings that facilitated chances for impressive daily profits.

We often comment about the elevated volatility in weekly options at the end of a given week, and Friday was no different. The single-session opportunities that were afforded to us by the MSFT chain were mind-bending:

$51 Calls – 1st Swing: .88-2.62 (198%) – 2nd Swing: 1.76-3.05 (74%)

$51.50 Calls – 1st Swing: 1.25-2.10 (68%) – 2nd Swing: 1.48-2.03 (37%)

$52 Calls – 1st Swing: .14-1.68 (1100%) – 2nd Swing: .99-1.98 (100%) – Low to High: 1300% 

$52.50 Calls – 1st Swing: .45-1.17 (160%) – 2nd Swing: .50-1.45 (190%)

$53 Calls – 1st Swing: .30-.82 (173%) – 2nd Swing: .17-.99 (482%)

$53.50 Calls – 1st Swing: .16-.49 (206%) – 2nd Swing: .04-.50 (1150%)

Congratulations to any of our readers who jumped into the action for what ultimately turned out to be an excellent bunch of opportunities to close out the week!

International Star, Inc. ILST

If you didn’t catch our alert on ILST a week ago today, you ended up missing a heck of an intraweek swing out of this super-subpenny play.

We observed a low of .0004 early in the week, and that gave way to a pleasing run to a high of .0009 on Friday. It worked out to a move of 125% and it occurred during a week where the stock was setting records for all-time high volume. We’d say our timing in catching this one was extremely fortunate.

We’ll need to see ILST hold support at or above .0006 on any pullbacks in order to remain interested.

Extended Watchlist:
BHRT, HNSS, IFXY, NTFU

Blue Horseshoe Stocks: WTW, TRIP Updates & More


Weight Watchers International, Inc. WTW – Options Update

Mentioning the stock for the first time in our reports after catching yesterday’s news that Oprah is taking up a 10% stake in WTW, turned out to be yet another great feat of intuition on our part. We suspected that the hype-fueled run in the premarket would be subject to a classic dip-and-rip scenario which would allow us substantial opportunities on the options-trading front, and our assumption ultimately proved to be correct.

Just to refresh your memories, our specific target range was the WTW 11/20 $10-13 Calls, and all but one set in that range produced the chances for which we were looking. The $10 Calls were a bit too far out of the money to see any notable increases, but the $11, $12, and $13 Calls were all winning selections as WTW itself traded from 10.76-15.09 (+40%).

$11 Calls – Daily Range: 1.30-3.99 – Max Gain: 207%
$12 Calls – Daily Range: 1.00-3.50 – Max Gain: 250%
$13 Calls – Daily Range: .75-2.70 – Max Gain: 260%

The stock has continued to barrel upward in the premarket today, having once again cracked the $15 mark. By now it should go without saying that we’ll have to take a look at rolling up our strike prices to stay closer to the money in the event that the uptrend is sustained.

TripAdvisor, Inc. TRIP – Options Update

We began taking advantage of the TRIP options chain last week, where we tracked several different sets of contracts to triple-bag gains and better (we even had a 650% single-session mover!). To kick off the new week yesterday, we reiterated our interest in a specific idea, and it took almost no time at all for it to bear fruit.

We mentioned that we’d continue to observe the TRIP 10/30 $85 Calls and they logged a winning session for us once again. From a daily low of 1.50, they managed to run as high as 1.93. That goes down as a respectable intraday move of 29%
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We’ll look for TRIP to maintain support at or above yesterday’s swing low of 82.53 on any pullbacks to stay interested, but we will continue to track these contracts in the days ahead.

Extended Watchlist:
KALO, MAXD, GMET, ILST, WSTI