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Solid Finish to a Great Week, 4 New Earnings Plays

Closing Out the Week on a Great Note:

We always find it most pleasing when we can close out a trading week reporting a clean sweep of Thursday options ideas. We will enjoy that distinction yet again today, with everything we had our eyes on from yesterday’s report producing significant intraday upswings.

Those plays were the PYPL Weekly $69-67 Puts, the QCOM Weekly $119-118 Puts, the SHOP Weekly $62-61 Puts, and the BUD Weekly $57-58 Calls. Here is a breakdown of the intraday performances of these ideas yesterday, whose gains ranged from reasonably impressive to excellent:

PYPL Weekly $69-67 Puts
$69: 2.77-4.90 (+77%)
$68: 2.08-3.85 (+85%)
$67: 1.43-2.95 (+106%)
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QCOM Weekly $119-118 Puts
$119: 2.40-4.20 (+100%)
$118: 1.59-3.49 (+119%)
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SHOP Weekly $62-61 Puts
$62: .81-3.72 (+359%)
$61: .54-2.85 (+428%)
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BUD Weekly $57-58 Calls
$57: .50-.75 (+50%)
$58: .05-.15 (+200%)

Fresh Options Ideas:
AAPL Weekly $190-185 Puts*
AMZN Weekly $138-141 Calls*
AMGN Weekly $230-232.50 Calls*
ABNB Weekly $139-137 Puts*

*Trading options contracts on their day of expiration should only be attempted by experienced traders

Nikola Corp. (NASDAQ:NKLA) – Recap:

We’ve got an update on NKLA, which we have been mentioning all summer, after initially tagging it on the morning of June 14th. From its low of .99, we’ve now seen this stock surge to a new high of 3.71 yesterday. That represents a steady 275% increase over roughly the last six weeks.

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Tupperware Brands Corp. (NYSE:TUP) – Recap:

As we were just mentioning the other day, we have been on TUP since July 12th, after which time the stock was trading for as little as .61. Even after registering impressive the new highs that we reported this week, the stock continued to surge, printing a trade at 7.25 yesterday post-market. That works out to a total increase of 1088% in the few weeks we’ve been tailing it!

Extended Watchlist:
MF, AHI, FUBO, POL, TIVC, YELL, AAOI, TOPS, ENZC, APYP

Closing Out a Great Week with Strength

Thursday Options Recap:

We have been rolling right along on the options front this week, coming up with four sets of winning ideas in each of last three consecutive sessions. In our premarket report for Thursday morning, we provided readers with a varied set of potential targets to watch, and once again, all four yielded intraday gain opportunities. We are very proud to be able to come up with good ideas on a daily basis for our readers the vast majority of the time, and we certainly upheld that standard this week.

We were focused on the GIII 12/16 $17.50-15 Puts, the DG Weekly $245-240 Puts, the SPLK Weekly $83-85 Calls, and the SNPS Weekly $360-370 Calls. The markets as a whole experienced somewhat of a choppy session, but our items of interest produced the following intraday runs and profit chances:

GIII 12/16 $17.50-15 Puts
$17.50: 5.00-5.55 (+11%)
$15: 2.50-3.20 (+28%)
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DG Weekly $245-240 Puts
$245: 6.00-14.10 (+135%)
$242.50: 5.50-10.72 (+95%)
$240: 4.10-9.30 (+126%)
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SPLK Weekly $83-85 Calls
$83: 3.45-8.80 (+155%)
$84: 2.59-7.60 (+193%)
$85: 2.07-6.61 (+219%)
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SNPS Weekly $360-370 Calls
$360: 6.50-8.40 (+29%)
$370: 2.45-4.70 (+92%)

Fresh Options Ideas:
ZS Weekly $131 Puts
MRVL Weekly $43.50-42.50 Puts
ULTA Weekly $470-475 Calls
SMAR 12/16 $35-40 Calls

Extended Watchlist:
ASTA, PMOMF, IGEX, PRDL, PVCT, BRLL, AVXL, RIGL, SOXS, RMED, TOPS, EOSE

Reviewing Winning Ideas, Formulating New Ones

Johnson & Johnson JNJ

We were correct in assuming yesterday would be a good day to put some options trading ideas for Johnson & Johnson on the table. The company is now at the center of the frantic pursuit of a vaccine to eradicate the deadly COVID-19 virus. We expect we will be following its role in this endeavor to completion.

For now, while we have signaled some longer-term options as well, we’re mainly interested in the short term plays we’re tracking and the moves they began to make yesterday. We will include the modest moves made by our September calls, but would expect to have to wait for them to come into play in a more meaningful way.

JNJ Weekly $125-130 Calls
$125: 5.15-9.81 (+90%)
$126: 4.00-9.00 (+125%)
$127: 4.00-8.00 (+100%)
$128: 2.95-7.37 (+150%)
$129: 2.86-6.65 (+133%)
$130: 2.45-5.96 (+143%)

09/18 $150-155 Calls
$150: 3.50-5.00 (+43%)
$155: 2.80-3.50 (+25%)

Top Ships, Inc. TOPS

Our chatroom call from Friday, which we highlighted in yesterday morning’s premarket report, tacked considerable gains onto our observed range after another huge bullish session. It saw a daily run from .36 to a new high of .62, which comes out to an intraday increase of 72%

From the low of .135 that TOPS saw on Friday morning when we offered it to our traders chat participants, yesterday’s new high mark represented a two-day upswing of 359% We’re seeing a significant pullback in the stock this morning, so this run has had it, but we’ll keep an eye skinned as it searches out a bottom, as a another swing to the upside may follow shortly thereafter.

Anyone who enjoys our premarket reports can also join our daily traders chats on Skype. It’s a place to get new ideas and even share some of your own in real-time throughout the course of each trading day. Send a Skype contact request to username “stocksumo” and we’ll see you there!

Streaming Stocks

More people are at home streaming content than ever before, and that is going to be true throughout the duration of the coronavirus crisis, which most experts agree will persist until a vaccine is successfully produced, sometime in 2021. Here are a couple of obvious players who stand to maintain solid business through this new dynamic, and some corresponding ideas.

ROKU Weekly $87.50-89 Calls
NFLX $365-372.50 Calls

Extended Watchlist:
HALB, NSPX, ABCE, BIEI, CYDY, SPHS,

JNJ Options & More

Top Ships, Inc. TOPS

We talked a little bit about our daily live traders chats last week, and on Friday, came another example of why it’s a good idea to get involved. We allow any of our subscribers to join in, to find even more trading opportunities and freely share their own ideas.

As you can see in the provided snapshot, TOPS was highlighted shortly before 11AM on Friday, and the stock went on a very nice run following that, which is spilling over into this morning as well. Subsequent to appearing in our chat, TOPS ran from .135-.32. That works out to a move of 137% That figure has been boosted even higher today, as TOPS hit .46 in premarket trading, extended our observed range of potential gains to 241%

Don’t pass up a chance to join us in our chatroom on Skype, where you’ll get on-the-fly trading ideas like this one and more. You can share your own as well. Send a Skype contact request to “stocksumo” and we’ll get you in there!

Johnson & Johnson JNJ

Emerging as the potential leader in terms of being first to a workable coronavirus vaccine, JNJ says they may be able to produce a working one by early 2021, several months prior to most previous estimates. The company has also committed to providing one billion of them to the US Dept. of Health & Human Services.

We will likely be following this story for quite some time, so we’re going to signal both a short and longer-range set of options ideas here, with the JNJ Weekly $125-130 Calls & 09/18 $150-155 Calls.
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Bonus Idea:
Cal-Maine Foods, Inc. CALM $43-45 Calls

Extended Watchlist:
PRLX, ABUS. WORK, HLTY

Multiple Options Updates & More

WW International, Inc. WW – Options Update

First thing’s first this morning, we’re circling back to report new highs on the options ideas we formulated for the Weight Watchers chain earlier in the week. On Monday morning, we signaled interest in the WW Weekly $39.50-40.50 Calls and have seen some solid moves over the course of the week so far.

Here are the updated figures on the total possible gains in these ideas:

WW Weekly $39.50-40.50 Calls
$39.50 Calls – Range: .35-.1.20 – Max Gain: 243%
$40 Calls – Range: .23-.95 – Max Gain: 313%
$40.50 Calls – Range: .18-.65 – Max Gain: 261%

More Winning Ideas:

We also had a number of fresh ideas in yesterday’s report, and here were the instant winners out of that group:

GIS 01/17 $55 Calls
$55 Calls – Range: .10-.28 – Max Gain: 180%

FDX Weekly $155-150 Puts
$155 Puts – Range: 3.95-8.75 – Max Gain: 122%
$152.50 Puts – Range: 2.64-6.24 – Max Gain: 136%
$150 Puts – Range: 1.65-4.09 – Max Gain: 148%

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Fresh Options Ideas:
RAD Weekly $9.50-10.50 Calls
DRI Weekly $115-110 Puts

Extended Watchlist:
VTGN, TOPS, PT, OBSV, TLRA, KOPN, CTXR, RUBI, XBIO, NAKD