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Wrapping Up a Top-Notch Options Trading Week

Multibag Options Runners:

We spent the whole week going after solid options plays and as usual, found incredible success. Yesterday’s pair of fresh options ideas offered no exception to that trend, as both of them produced significant gain opportunities on the day.

We had the GME Weekly $175-165 Puts and the RH Weekly $620-635 Calls in our sights, and in each case we were met with the chance for multibag gains. Here were the figures on those ideas:

GME Weekly $175-165 Puts
$175: 5.95-24.00 (+303%)
$170: 4.15-18.80 (+353%)
$165: 2.58-14.67 (+468%)
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RH Weekly $620-635 Calls
$620: 17.15-39.10 (+128%)
$625: 19.13-35.62 (+86%)
$630: 14.83-32.50 (+119%)
$635: 12.49-27.64 (+121%)

OTC Recaps:

We’ve also got a couple of OTC-listed stocks that have appeared in our daily extended watchlists which produced some nice moves in recent sessions.

Zion Oil & Gas, Inc. ZNOG
Alerted: Nov.15th
Range: .0132-.0319
Gained: +142%
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iGen Networks Corp. IGEN
Alerted: Dec. 6th
Range:.0052-.0094
Gained: +81%

Fresh Options Ideas:

All of today’s new options targets expire at the end of the session, so to include our usual disclaimer, we must caution you that only experienced traders with access to disposable funds should trade weekly options contracts on a Friday.

ORCL Weekly $97.50-100 Calls
AVGO Weekly $610-625 Calls
ASO Weekly $43.50-45 Calls

Extended Watchlist:
ASTI, BLOZF, AAPT, GTII, BLFE, PCTL, SEGI,

Home Depot & Other Updates, Fresh Ideas

Recapping Home Depot Calls, Other Options:

As usual, our first order of business for the day is to provide tracking on our active options trading interests. This morning that includes the solid moves made by the Home Depot calls we signaled for observation in yesterday’s premarket watchlist. as well as some more new highs on a couple of the other plays on our radar this week.

Specifically, we are referring to the HD Weekly $370-375 Calls, the BEKE 11/19 $17.50-20 Calls, and the PYPL 12/10 $210-225 Calls. In the case of the HD’s, we got some fantastic intraday movement, and our pre-existing targets managed to tack on some impressive new highs.

Those movements and total possible options trading profits thus far, are as follows:

HD Weekly $370-375 Calls
$370: 10.00-24.45 (+145%)
$372.50: 8.50-22.00 (+159%)
$375: 7.15-19.51 (+173%)

BEKE 11/19 $17.50-20 Calls
$17.50: 1.94-7.40 (+281%)
$20: .65-5.00 (+669%)

PYPL 12/10 $210-225 Calls
$210: 4.00-10.50 (+163%)
$215: 2.88-7.78 (+170%)
$220: 2.05-5.60 (+173%)
$225: 1.45-4.00 (+176%)

Fresh Options Ideas:
BIDU Weekly $170-175 Calls
TJX Weekly $71-73 Calls
LOW Weekly $250-255 Calls

Extended Watchlist:
PROG, CEI, SPI, ZSAN, RMTI, PCTL, GWHP, SBFM

SMPL Update, Form-4 Alert

The Simply Good Foods Co. SMPL – Options Review
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On Thursday morning, SMPL was among the fresh options trading targets that we had mentioned in our premarket report. We were looking specifically at the SMPL 08/21 $20-22.50 Calls.

Despite it being one of our relatively rare longer-term swing-trade ideas, with tons of time remaining until expiration, we did see some early gains right off the bat from those plays as the week drew to a close.

08/21 $20-22.50 Calls
$20: 1.50-2.20 (+47%)
$22.50: .70-1.30 (+86%)

We’ll certainly continue to have these targets on watch in the weeks and months ahead, it was good to see some instantaneous opportunity arise.
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Fresh Ideas:
SPY Weekly $284-286 Calls

AxoGen Inc. AXGN – Form-4 Alert

We would also like to make mention of AXGN this morning. which we caught sight of during a routine Form-4 scan. We’ve got the CEO picking up shares and adding to his already considerable position just as the stock was preparing to register new annual lows.

We generally like to put stocks in this situation on watch, and will be anxiously awaiting the company’s quarterly results due in roughly two weeks.

Extended Watchlist:
DMAN, KNOS, PCTL, OWCP, HUTMF, NBY, AVCT, EROS, CYCC, TRNX,

Incredible Options Trading Week!

Another Big Options Trading Week
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UnitedHealth Group, Inc. UNH – We were just reporting on the solid gains made by our UNH idea yesterday, the UNH Weekly $270-277.50 Calls. It was a see-saw kind of a day for the markets at large, but there was still plenty of opportunity for us to increase our observed ranges on these plays since we began tracking them Wednesday morning:

UNH Weekly $270-277.50 Calls
$270: 6.00-26.50 (+342%)
$272.50: 4.21-26.00 (+518%)
$275: 3.30-20.00 (+506%)
$277.50: 2.39-21.40 (+795%)

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Johnson & Johnson JNJ – We’ve also been following the JNJ 09/18 $150-155 Calls since last Tuesday morning, and like the play above, are returning for the second straight day to highlight the impressive gains we’ve witnessed thus far:

JNJ 09/18 $150-155 Calls
$150: 2.90-10.17 (+251%)
$155: 2.27-7.50 (+230%)
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The success with our options calls just kept coming this week, and that includes a pair of our ideas that were fresh for yesterday morning. We signaled interest in calls in the ABT and TSM chains, and saw some really nice moves there as well.

ABT Weekly $90-92.50 Calls
$90: 2.00-7.10 (+255%)
$92.50: .85-5.00 (+488%)
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TSM Weekly $50-52 Calls
$50: 1.86-3.16 (+70%)
$50.50:1.55-2.50 (+61%)
$51: 1.30-2.15 (+65%)
$51.50: .57-1.70 (+198%)
$52: .65-1.26 (+94%)

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More Fresh Ideas:
STT Weekly $60-65 Calls*
KSU Weekly $136-140 Calls*

*Never trade options with a weekly expiration on Friday unless you’re an expert level trader with access to disposable funds!

Moderna Inc. MRNA

We began tracking MRNA at the end of February, initially tagging the stock on February 27th and then again on March 16th. After seeing a low of 19.31 following that report, MRNA has been making steady headway in its run up the chart which has persisted for more than a month now.

Yesterday we saw a new recorded high of 41.55, which represents an overall increase of 115% since we began following the activity in MRNA.

Extended Watchlist:
CBDL, TURV, CNBX, DECN, GLGI, PWRMF, SBES, PCTL

Coronavirus Watchlist & More

Todos Medical, Ltd. TOMDF

The see-saw of market volatility persists with no end in sight. Traditional investing has become a fool’s errand in many, if not most, cases. The kind of opportunistic short term trading that we do is relatively intact, with the right targets and scenarios.

In this case, we caught TOMDF’s coronavirus news in the premarket yesterday, stating that the company had secured distribution agreements for testing kits in both the US and Isreal. After including it in our extended watchlist, the stock managed a very nice intraday gain. It traded up from a low of 0413, and reached a high of .08, which works out to an intraday upswing of 94%

Coronavirus Watchlist

While we do focus primarily on quick strike opportunities, it’s also worth it to mention a few plays that represent products and services that are high demand at the present time due to the fallout from COVID-19. If the report from the UK’s highly respected Imperial College is accurate, this global health crisis is only in its beginning stages, and will get much, much worse in the months ahead.

While neither these, nor any other plays are “corona-proof”, the effects may weigh less heavily on these stocks and those like them:

CPB, APRN, CLX, GIS, PG

Extended Watchlist:
MATN, ZOOM, DECN, PCTL, NBDR, IPIX, GNPX, GNBT