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Happy Holidays! Putting a Cap on a Good Week

HAPPY HOLIDAYS ONE AND ALL!

Before we do our wrap-up for the week we’d just like to wish all of our readers the very best, no matter which holidays you choose to celebrate for the season! We appreciate all of our readers, and will continue to work hard to try to bring you interesting ideas, or just a different way of looking at things. It’s been a great year, and we’re looking forward to what the next one has in store. Good tidings and cheers to every last one of you!

Another Options Clean Sweep:

We made good on all three sets of options ideas we formulated for yesterday morning’s premarket report. Turning in a flawless sheet for the second straight day in a row. The markets dipped, which was good for our bearish targets, and there was at least an attempted recovery toward the second half of the session that provided some good intraday movement for our one bullish idea.

The targets in question were the KMX Weekly $54-52 Puts, the PAYX 01/20 $115-120 Calls, and the MU Weekly $50-48.50 Puts. and as will see below, the potential gains ranged in ascending order from nominal all the way up to excellent. Here’s how the day broke down for us:

KMX Weekly $54-52 Puts
$54: .65-.93 (+43%)
$53: .39-.55 (+41%)
$52: .35-.65 (+86%)
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PAYX 01/20 $115-120 Calls
$115: .92-2.20 (+139%)
$120: .33-.70 (+112%)
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MU Weekly $50-48.50 Puts
$50: .65-1.62 (+149%)
$49.50: .41-1.15 (+180%)
$49: .24-.81 (+238%)
$48.50: .15-.52 (+246%)

Fresh Options Ideas:
PLAY 01/20 $36-37 Calls

Blue Apron Holdings Inc. APRN:

We’ve also got another update for APRN, which we had just put on people’s radars in yesterday morning’s report. After seeing a low of .75 yesterday, the stock had reached 1.29 her in the premarket, representing a jump of 72% We’ll continue to monitor this stock when we pick things up on Tuesday following the holiday.

Extended Watchlist:
GTII, BIEI, LIACF, SMME, APE, XPON, CORZ, SWVL

Big Options Runners, Trio of Fresh Plays

A Clean Sweep on Options Plays:

We finally got the lead out yesterday, with some options trading ideas that were reliant upon the markets posting a solid session. Fortunately, the chips fell in the desired direction, and led to some very respectable intraday gain chances for ourselves, and anyone who caught our premarket report for the day.

On the menu for Wednesday were the SPY 12/21 $381-383 Calls, the NKE Weekly $113-115 Calls, and the FDX Weekly $170-175 Calls. Here was the breakdown of the intraday moves and total possible gains that were there for the taking:

SPY 12/21 $381-383 Calls
$381: 2.39-6.23 (+161%)
$382: 1.70-5.35 (+215%)
$383: 1.16-4.40 (+279%)
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NKE Weekly $113-115 Calls
$113: 3.75-6.31 (+68%)
$114: 3.30-5.50 (+67%)
$115: 1.25-4.60 (+268%)
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FDX Weekly $170-175 Calls
$170: 1.77-3.90 (+120%)
$172.50: .90-2.37 (+136%)
$175: .43-1.30 (+202%)

Fresh Options Ideas:
KMX Weekly $54-52 Puts
PAYX 01/20 $115-120 Calls
MU Weekly $50-48.50 Puts

Blue Apron Holdings Inc. APRN:

As tax loss season is winding down, we want to put APRN on our readers’ radars as a potential bottom bouncer to swing trade into the new year. The stock has just started to rebound off of its 52-week lows and established a higher high yesterday. We’ll be watching this potential value play over the days and weeks ahead.

Extended Watchlist:
GTII, BIEI, COSG, SMME, SCPS, CORZ, PRQR, APE, SWVL, ISO

KMX, ABML Recaps & More

CarMax, Inc. KMX – Options Recap

Our lone fresh options idea in yesterday’s report, was a short on CarMax, the weekly KMX Weekly $99-97.50 Put, and with a little help from a bearish day for the markets in general, those turned out to be excellent targets.

Here are the intraday ranges and total possible gains that were on the table:

KMX Weekly $99-97.50 Puts
$99: 1.90-7.00 (+268%)
$98: 1.50-6.00 (+300%)
$97.50: 1.50-5.70 (+280%)
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Fresh Options Idea:
PAYX 01/15 $97.50-100 Calls

American Battery Metals Corp. ABML – Huge Gains

In our premarket report on Monday morning, we signaled interest in ABML in our extended watchlist, and during that session the stock was trading for as little as .52 a share and climbing. This morning in the premarket we’ve seen ABML printing 1.48, which marks a two-day rise of 185%

What’s even more impressive, is that we’ve actually been tracking this stock since June, when it was trading for as little as .0621. From that level, this week’s new highs represent an upswing of 2283% in less than six months!

Extended Watchlist:
SHMP, DSGT, ALPP, OPTI, BRTX,

Blue Horseshoe Stocks: Options Review & HEMP

Options Review

We’ve placed a lot of focus on options plays this week, and thanks to the help of a solid day for the markets, we saw excellent opportunities for quick strike profits in a couple of them yesterday. Our primary order of business today is to go over the gains that have been made possible by some of our ideas.

The Netflix Inc. NFLX 01/25 $290-300 Calls were an idea we submitted in yesterday morning’s premarket report, and we saw some moderate increases in all five of those contracts, which were as follows:

$290 Calls – Range: 14.15-16.30 – Max Gain: 15%
$292.50 Calls – Range: 11.00-14.70 – Max Gain: 34%
$295 Calls – Range: 10.05-16.25 – Max Gain: 62%
$297.50 Calls – Range: 11.25-14.00 – Max Gain: 24%
$300 Calls – Range: 8.60-13.07 – Max Gain: 52%
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We also formulated an idea for the SPDR S&P500 ETF (SPY) on Tuesday morning, the SPY Weekly $266.50-268.50 Calls, and those have flourished thanks to the bullish session for stocks in general yesterday. Here are the ranges on those contracts so far:

$266.50 Calls – Range: 1.25-3.55 – Max Gain: 184%
$267 Calls – Range: 1.02-3.20 – Max Gain: 214%
$267.50 Calls – Range: .89-2.86 – Max Gain: 221%
$268 Calls – Range: .74-2.60 – Max Gain: 251%
$268.50 Calls – Range: .66-2.28 – Max Gain: 245%

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Hemp, Inc. HEMP

We also wanted to make mention of HEMP, a long-time familiar play which we most recently tagged on November 30th, subsequent to which time we would observe a low of .0292.

Thanks to the passing of the farm bill in the House by a landslide, hemp and its byproducts, which includes CBD, has just been legalized at the federal level. That means big things for HEMP, and many other companies involved in CBD production and distribution. The news led to a new high of .045 for HEMP- a 54% move over our observed low from a couple of weeks ago.

Extended Watchlist:
OPTT, IPCI, BLIN, CRIS, VTL, DPW, GE, PAYX, ADIL, NBEV

Blue Horseshoe Stocks: APTI Recap & More

Apptio, Inc. APTI – Review

Despite a lousy day for the markets as a whole, yesterday brought a very interesting development in APTI, in the form of an enormous gap-up. We signaled APTI as a bottom-play in our premarket report on the first of this month, after the stock had begun to rebound following a dip to new annual lows a couple of days earlier. At the time the stock traded for as little as 24.48 a share.

We included it in yesterdays report as well, and the new high after that incredible gap-up came in at 37.80. That marks an upswing of 54% in just under two weeks, made even more impressive by the fact that the markets tanked on the day. The rapid hike was due to Sunday’s revelation that the company would be sold in an all cash deal equal to $38/share.

Fresh Options Ideas

We scan the earnings calendar each morning to ID earnings plays with the biggest potential, and today we have a pair of big name releases for which we will formulate some quick strike ideas:

HD Weekly $180 Calls
AAP Weekly $170 & $175 Calls

Extended Watchlist:
AIMT, HUSA, RGSE, ARDX, PAYX, NMM, DXR, HDSN