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Happy New Year, Options Ideas for Friday

HAPPY NEW YEAR, TRADERS!

Welcome back everyone, and Happy New Year. We hope your 2026 is your best year yet! We’re not going to bother going over our last report from more than a week ago. Instead, we’re just going to hit the ground running and hash out a few options ideas for today’s session.

We should see some major earnings drops start to occur later next week, but for now we’ll rely on volume trades, and the like. Here’s what we’ll be looking at for the first session of the year:

Fresh Options Ideas:
SPY 01/02 $684-686 Calls*
INTU Weekly $662.50-665 Calls*
TSLA Weekly $450-455 Calls*
TSM Weekly $310-312.50 Calls*

*Only experienced options traders should attempt to trade contracts on their expiration day

Extended Watchlist:
UAVS, DVLT, CHOW, IRWD, NCL,

SPY Calls, Special Announcement

SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT:

We have made the decision to postpone further daily reports until the new year. With no earnings reporters next week, and not much excitement expected, we’re just going to shut things down until 2026. We wish all of our readers a Happy New Year, and we’ll see you all then!

Wednesday’s Performance:

We closed out the lengthier portion of the short trading week on Wednesday in good fashion, with a set of four potential options trades in our premarket report for that morning. We were pretty well on-form with the kinds of intraday moves those plays provided, which were quite solid.

We had tagged the SPY 12/24 $688 Calls, the TSM Weekly $297.50 Calls, the PLD Weekly 01/16 $130 Calls and the AGIO 01/16 $25 Calls for observation, and here were the results from that half-session:

SPY 12/24 $688 Calls
$688: .57-2.81 (+393%)
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TSM Weekly $297.50 Calls
$297.50: 1.50-2.63 (+75%)

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PLD Weekly 01/16 $130 Calls
$130: 1.85-2.21 (+19%)

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AGIO 01/16 $25 Calls

$25: 2.05-5.20 (+154%)

Fresh Options Ideas:
SPY 12/26 $691 Calls*

*Only experienced options traders should attempt to trade contracts on their expiration day

Extended Watchlist:
DTCK, CANF, ASPC, PCLA, SIDU, NCL, SOAR, AFJK, DSWL, AMCI, IVP, NCL,

Tuesday’s Big Plays, 4 Fresh Targets

Tuesday’s Runners:

We continued this short holiday week yesterday in proper fashion, signaling four possible targets in our premarket report, all of which turned out to contain some pretty good intraday movers. We’ll gear down early for the 1PM close today, enjoy the holiday tomorrow, and be right back in the saddle on Friday morning to hopefully close things out strong for the week.

Yesterday’s targets were the NFLX 01/16 $94-95 Calls, the PSKY Weekly $13.50-14 Calls, the NVO Weekly $51-53 Calls, and the ZIM Weekly $21-21.50 Calls. Here were the biggest intraday runs they recorded:

NFLX 01/16 $94-95 Calls
$94: .74-1.08 (+46%)
$94.50: .53-.81 (+53%)
$95: .38-.57 (+50%)
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PSKY Weekly $13.50-14 Calls
$13.50: .23-.36 (+56%)
$14: .05-.07 (+40%)
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NVO Weekly $51-53 Calls
$51: .62-1.15 (+85%)
$52: .26-.53 (+104%)
$53: .11-.23 (+109%)
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ZIM Weekly $21-21.50 Calls
$21: .48-.80 (+67%)
$21.50: .25-.45 (+80%)

Fresh Options Ideas:
SPY 12/24 $688 Calls*
TSM Weekly $297.50 Calls
PLD Weekly 01/16 $130 Calls
AGIO 01/16 $25 Calls

*Today’s SPY Calls will be expiring at the early close of 1PM

Extended Watchlist:
MWG, ELOG, INDP, DVAX, NCL, DRMA, XTKG, RPTX, SIDU, XTKG

Monday’s Runners, 4 Fresh Plays

Monday’s Moves:

The week got off to a slightly lackluster beginning on Monday. With no interesting earnings reporters to base our trading ideas from, things weren’t exactly as volatile as we typically like to see for the targets in our premarket report. Everything made at least some move in a positive direction, just not on the level we’d prefer. We’re a bit light on earnings again today, but tomorrow should be a good day in that regard, with several big names preparing for release.

As for yesterday’s chances, here were the best upswings by the SPY 12/15 $684-686 Calls, the MU Weekly $247.50 Calls, and the JBL Weekly $220 Calls:

SPY 12/15 $684-686 Calls
$684: .23-.59 (+157%)
$685: .11-.29 (+164%)
$686: .07-.16 (+129%)
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MU Weekly $247.50 Calls
$247.50: 9.15-10.58 (+16%)
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JBL Weekly $220 Calls
$220: 10.22-11.50 (+13%)

Fresh Options Ideas:
ABVX Weekly $115 Puts
CUK Weekly $25 Calls
AVGO Weekly $340-337.50 Puts
NVDA Weekly $177.50 Calls

Extended Watchlist:
IVP, AZI, ASNS, SRXH, AMCI, CPAC, VERO, RZLV

Friday in Review, 3 New Potential Plays

Friday Recap:

Friday would have been a clean sweep session for us, but unfortunately one of our three ideas was rendered moot by a pretty obvious typo. However, the other two sets of targets we were watching in our premarket report made up for it, with some excellent intraday performance.

Those winning ideas were the AVGO Weekly $387.50-385 Puts, and the RH $155-157.50 Calls. both off the backs of earnings reports. We won’t have any earnings reporters to work with today, so we’ll go to other methods to generate our daily watchlist.

AVGO Weekly $387.50-385 Puts
$387.50: 10.54-31.93 (+203%)
$385: 8.09-29.63 (+266%)
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RH $155-157.50 Calls
$155: 7.96-18.02 (+126%)
$157.50: 4.00-10.00 (+150%)

Fresh Options Ideas:
SPY 12/15 $684-686 Calls*
MU Weekly $247.50 Calls
JBL Weekly $220 Calls

*Only experienced options traders should attempt to trade contracts on their expiration day

Extended Watchlist:
WOK, OCG, ASBP, MASK, IMG, RADX, YCBD, CGC, BDRX