Cautious Yet Bold Options Strategy Keeps Bearing Fruit

Yesterday’s Options Success: 

It seems like the winds of fortune have been gusting in our favor for quite some time now, with the options targets we outlined in yesterday’s morning report all producing gain opportunities on some level. That makes for the fourth straight session in which every single one of our interests has given traders a shot as compounding their funds.

Our daily focus was trained on the AVAV 07/15 $75-70 Puts, the GIS 07/15 $70-72.50 Calls, and the MKC 07/15 $90-80 Puts, which all put forth some measure of intraday run in what amounted to a bit of a choppy day for the markets as a whole. Things in that regard have become rather harder to predict, but we’ve been trying very hard to select potential plays with a good risk/reward balance. Here’s where our efforts led yesterday:

AVAV 07/15 $75-70 Puts
$75: 
2.49-4.49 (+80%)
$70: 1.29-2.20 (+71%)
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GIS 07/15 $70-72.50 Calls
$70: 
2.50-5.10 (+104%)
$72.50: 1.05-3.07 (+192%)
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MKC 07/15 $90-80 Puts 
$90: 6.00-7.20 (+20%)
$85: 2.01-3.37 (+68%)
$80: .60-1.20 (+100%)


Fresh Options Ideas:
YETI 08/05 $46-47 Calls
WBA Weekly $38.50-39.50 Calls
DCT 07/15 $17.50-15 Puts
SGH 07/15 $17.50 Calls 


Extended Watchlist: 
TXTM, SEII, EMGE, HIRU, WNFT, PPCB, REVB, NRSN, ASPN, MARK, DNAY, CSCW, MULN

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, 

Options Review, Bearish on New Plays

BAC, SYF Options Review: 

We made good on both of the short-term options trading ideas we issued in yesterday morning’s premarket report. with our long -term play needing some more time to mature. We typically steer clear of banks, but occasionally we will take a shot following an earnings drop and we did so successfully with Bank of America.

We were zeroed in on the BAC Weekly $36.50-37.50 Calls, as well as the SYF Weekly $37-39 Calls, which also produced significant intraday gain opportunities for us on the day. The daily ranges and total possible profits off of those ideas were as follows:

BAC Weekly $36.50-37.50 Calls 

$36.50: 1.18-2.86 (+142%)
$37: .84-2.35 (+179%)
$37.50: .56-1.90 (+239%)
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SYF Weekly $37-39 Calls
$37:
2.20-3.46 (+57%)
$38: .85-2.45 (+188%)
$39: .39-1.75 (+348%)


Fresh Options Ideas:
HAL Weekly $41.50-40.50 Puts
LMT Weekly $460-465 Puts


Casa Systems Inc. CASA – Recap:

Another winner from yesterday morning’s report was CASA, which we tagged for the first time in our extended watchlist. The stock would go on to place as the top gainer on the NASDAQ for the day. From an early low of 5.63, CASA ran to a high of 7.18, marking down a respectable intraday run of 28%


Extended Watchlist:
LCLP, RVVTF, LRTNF, SEII, STSS, AYTU, TBLT, AXSM, NAVB