Ringing in 2024 with a 4-Pack of Fresh Ideas

Best Wishes for 2024!

In a rare occurrence, we opted not to include any options trading ideas on Friday before breaking for the holiday. There were no earnings reporters, and the markets were looking rather subdued, and set up for a humdrum kind of a day. It was a quiet end to a year that had been anything but quiet, but we’re ready to get things rolling for 2024. We’ll still be without earnings reporters today, but that won’t stop us from rooting out something to focus upon for this first trading day of the year.

If 2024 turns out anywhere near as positive as 2023 was, we will be in very good shape! It is the 13th calendar year since we opened up BlueHorseshoeStocks.com as a daily archive of all of our newsletters (all 3,230 of which are still public and available for review!) and we’re going stronger than ever! To subscribers new and old, we hope you’ll stick with us for what promises to be a VERY interesting 2024!


Fresh Options Ideas: 
MARA Weekly $26-27 Calls
COIN Weekly $175-177.50 Calls
AMD Weekly $145-144 Puts
VYGR 11/19 $10-12.50 Calls 


Extended Watchlist:
RUM, ENZC, STAL, SGN, RIOT, NGM, VTXB, ZEVY, LTUM

Friday’s Fortune, 4 Fresh Ideas

Friday’s Five Runners:

Things went quite well for us on Friday, with our premarket report for the day including five possible options ideas, and all five returning solid intraday gain opportunities for us. It was a strong finish to what was another very successful week for opportunistic traders.

We were looking at the PATH Weekly $22.50-23.50 Calls, the MRVL Weekly $55-53 Puts, the ULTA Weekly $465-475 Calls, the ESTC 12/15 $90-95 Calls, and the PD 12/15 $22.50 Calls. Please note that we referred to ESTC and PD as weeklies on Friday, but the next expiration date was actually for December 15th, and we’ve included those figures below. Our PATH calls were by far the most exciting play of the day, with a couple of those contract sets surpassing the thousand percent gain mark on the session:

PATH Weekly $22.50-23.50 Calls
$22.50:
 .40-2.92 (+630%)
$23: .20-2.41 (+1105%)
$23.50: .13-1.80 (+1284%)
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MRVL Weekly $55-53 Puts
$55: 1.25-2.61 (+108%)
$54: .49-1.63 (+233%)
$53: .11-.66 (+500%)
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ULTA Weekly $465-475 Calls
$465:
 5.60-14.30 (+155%)
$470: 2.19-6.60 (+201%)
$475: .70-2.99 (+327%)
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ESTC 12/15 $90-95 Calls
$90: 9.60-21.88 (+128%)
$95: 6.39-16.00 (+150%)
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PD 12/15 $22.50 Calls

$22.50: .25-.70 (+180%)


Fresh Options Ideas:
JBL 12/15 $115-120 Calls
SAIC 12/15 $130-135 Calls
MARA Weekly $15-16 Calls
COIN Weekly $144-146 Calls 


Extended Watchlist:
CRCW, DPLS, CYDY, OZSC, BETS, WISA, LSDI, ATHE, EYPT, HA, SSNT, RIOT

Monday’s Runners, 6-Pack of New Ideas

Good Start to the Week:

Things went rather well for us to start the fresh trading week yesterday. Our premarket report contained three short term and one longer term idea, and the three quick-strike plays all delivered. This was despite having a shallow pool of earnings reporters, and having to improvise in terms of the targets. We shouldn’t have that issue today, with a full slate on the earnings calendar and a lot more interesting things happening.

As for yesterday’s fresh plays, here we have the intraday figures on the SPY 10/23 $421-420 Puts, the AAPL Weekly $172.50-170 Puts, and the AA Weekly $24-23.50 Puts:

SPY 10/23 $421-420 Puts
$421:
 .09-.78 (+767%)
$420: .05-.30 (+500%)
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AAPL Weekly $172.50-170 Puts
$172.50: 1.27-1.76 (+39%)
$170: .66-.96 (+45%)
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AA Weekly $24-23.50 Puts
$24: .47-.92 (+96%)
$23.50: .32-.63 (+97%)


Fresh Options Ideas:
RTX Weekly $78-80 Calls
VZ Weekly $31.50-32.50 Calls
GE Weekly $111-113 Calls
KO Weekly $54-56 Calls
SPY 10/24 $421-423 Calls*
MARA Weekly $9.50-10 Calls

*Please use caution when trading options contracts on their expiration date. It should only be attempted by experienced traders. 


Extended Watchlist 
ASTI, INM, LIAN, AWIN, WISA, NKLA, RIOT, BAER, MOTS, YCRM, ABQQ, CORZQ, HIRU