SPY Calls Break Out, Fresh Plays

Options Recaps: 

On the options trading front, we are making our way through the earnings drought as best we can recently, and doing a fairly good job of it if we say so ourselves. We’re in for another week-plus of this, with the days of having plenty of earnings reporters on the calendar set to return on Monday the 18th.

For now, we’ll keep plugging away and taking whatever we can get, and for yesterday’s report that came in the form of the SPY 07/06 $380-382 Calls which absolutely ripped, and the RFP 07/15 $17.50-20 Calls. Additionally, we’ve got some new highs to report in the GIS 07/15 $70-72.50 Calls which we alerted on last Wednesday.

SPY 07/06 $380-382 Calls
$380:
 1.45-5.92 (+308%)
$381: 1.05-4.85 (+362%)
$382: .67-3.85 (+477%)
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RFP 07/15 $17.50-20 Calls 

$17.50: 2.80-3.05 (+9%)
$20: .45-.70 (+56%)
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GIS 07/15 $70-72.50 Calls
$70: 
2.50-6.63 (+165%)
$72.50: 1.05-4.10 (+290%)


Fresh Options Ideas:
HELE 07/15 $160-150 Puts
SLP Weekly $55-50 Puts 


OTC Updates: 

We have a couple of OTC stocks that have been mentioned in recent extended watchlists to update readers on this morning as well. We always try to flag potential plays on the lower exchanges in our watchlists, and very often, it bears significant fruit.

We mentioned HMBL on Tuesday morning and the stock has posted an intraweek run from .048-.0992 which marks an upswing of 107%, and this past Thursday we signaled EMGE which has made a rip-roaring move of 273% from .0082-.0306 in just a week’s time.


Extended Watchlist: 
USEA, ALNA, TYDE, IINN, ANVS, ACRX, OZSC, PLPL, HWKE, BMIX

Hot Options Plays, New Ideas

Earnings Plays Yield Gains: 

We fared quite well with our options trading selections in yesterday morning’s premarket report, with three out of our four daily targets coming up with some really nice intraday runs for us.

The winning picks for the day were the V Weekly $207.50-212.50 Calls, the MSFT Weekly $277.50-285 Calls, and the GSK Weekly $44-46 Calls. This earnings season has been packed with opportunities left and right, and we have been doing our best to take full advantage. Today should be no different, with a mass of huge-name earnings dropping this morning, we’ll definitely be including another solid slate of options ideas in this report. .

V Weekly $207.50-212.50 Calls
$207.50: 
9.14-14.60 (+59%)
$210: 7.45-12.10 (+62%)
$212.50: 5.62-10.05 (+79%)
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MSFT Weekly $277.50-285 Calls
$277.50: 5.60-14.00 (+150%)
$280: 4.10-11.92 (+191%)
$282.50: 2.94-9.75 (+232%)
$285: 2.00-7.89 (+294%)
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GSK Weekly $44-46 Calls

$44: 1.24-1.61 (+30%)
$45: .50-95 (+90%)
$46: .15-.35 (+133%)


Fresh Options Ideas:
QCOM Weekly $143-146 Calls
PYPL Weekly $83-85 Calls
LLY Weekly $285-295 Calls
FB Weekly $190-200 Calls 


Extended Watchlist:
IDAI, STAB, CSCW, TMBR, XELA, XPON, OZSC, FLES, SING, KGKG, BMIX 

Incredibly Fruitful Earnings Season Continues!

Daily Options Updates: 

Our daily routine rarely ever changes and that’s because the things we do work out for us so often, so there’s no good reason to deviate from our typical repertoire. We like to feature option trading ideas because that’s the shortest path to quick-strike single-session gain chances.

We generally go for contracts with a weekly expiration, but do on occasion give longer term ideas that require more time to mature. Such was the case for one of our ideas with a July expiration yesterday, but the remaining three targets recorded some nice moves for us.

UPS Weekly $190-195 Calls
$190: .61-1.50 (+146%)
$192.50: .35-.79 (+126%)
$195: .24-.56 (+133%)
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GE Weekly $89-87 Puts
$89: 4.40-10.45 (+138%)
$88: 4.00-9.45 (+136%)
$87: 2.70-8.60 (+219%)
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SHW 05/20 $260-270 Calls
$260: 12.00-18.90 (+55%)
$270: 6.30-12.20 (+94%)


Fresh Options Ideas:
V Weekly $207.50-212.50 Calls
MSFT Weekly $277.50-285 Calls
TXN Weekly $167.50-162.50 Puts
GSK Weekly $44-46 Calls


Borks Technologies, Inc. BRQS – Recap:

We also have a brief update on a low-priced NASDAQ play that we’ve been tracking via our extended watchlists recently, having first tagged it on the morning of April 4th. Subsequent to that report, BRQS was trading for as little as .166, and yesterday the stock made its way up to a new high of .46. That works out to an intra-month increase of 177%


Extended Watchlist:
OZSC, ENZC, HIPH, SEII, COSM, AFIV, VIVK, CLBS,