Friday’s Rippers, 3 New Ideas

Fantastic Friday Finish:

Things really could not have gone much better for us on Friday to close out the short trading week. We had highlighted potential options plays in three chains and got awfully good results from each of the posted ideas in our premarket report for the day. Our 2024 calendar year has been exceptional thus far, with very nearly everything we touch turning to potential gold.

The ideas that we had hashed out for Friday’s session were the SPY 01/19 $478-480 Calls, the TRV Weekly $200-210 Calls, and the SLB Weekly $48-49 Calls, and here were the intraday upswings each of those contract sets recorded on the day:

SPY 01/19 $478-480 Calls
$478:
 .63-4.71 (+648%)
$479: .33-3.78 (+1045%)
$480: .15-2.83 (+1787%)
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TRV Weekly $200-210 Calls
$200: 6.96-11.80 (+69%)
$210: .05-1.90 (+3700%)
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SLB Weekly $48-49 Calls
$48: 1.13-2.43 (+115%)
$48.50: .76-1.81 (+138%)
$97: .46-1.36 (+195%)
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We also have an update for the longer-term SAVE Calls that we initially highlighted as a possible recovery play in our report this past Wednesday morning. Essentially the stock performed exactly as we said we believed it would, coming down a little lower before bouncing back, and giving us the kind of gains we were looking for. We might have expected it to take slightly longer than it did, but our vision came to fruition by the end of what was a really great short trading week.

SAVE 02/16 $5.00-7.50 Calls
$5.00: .68-2.60 (+282%)
$7.50: .25-1.46 (+484%)


Fresh Options Ideas: 

Without any interesting earnings reporters dropping figures this morning, we’re just going to go with a potential play on the SPY, and then we’ve identified a couple of longer-term potential plays to keep an eye on in the days and weeks ahead.

SPY 01/22 $482-483 Calls*
PBF 02/16 $43-44 Calls
NNI 02/16 $85-90 Calls


Extended Watchlist:
ILUS, HLLK, TONR, SALM, PHUN, LYT, LIFW, RVSN, CHRS, SGMT, OCTO, TALO

MEGA Moves in the SPY, Trio of Fresh Ideas

Huge SPY Moves, Options Recap:

The markets absolutely ripped on Thursday, and the feeling has continued into today where the S&P 500 seems set to open above its all time high from January of 2022. That meant really good things for the SPY Calls we featured in yesterday’s premarket report. In fact, three of our four daily options candidates were calls, and all three of them produced really nice intraday upswings.

Our winning targets for the session were the SPY 01/18 $473-475 Calls, the TSM Weekly $109-111 Calls, and the DFS Weekly $96-97.50 Calls, and those SPY $475 Calls were the very clear favorite, as they put up some truly astonishing figures, to the tune of more than a SIXTY-BAGGER in the $475’s:

SPY 01/18 $473-475 Calls
$473: .44-4.00 (+809%)
$474: .16-3.00 (+1775%)
$475: .03-2.01 (+6600%)
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TSM Weekly $109-111 Calls
$109:
 1.41-4.05 (+187%)
$110: .83-3.40 (+310%)
$111: .49-2.53 (+416%)
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DFS Weekly $96-97.50 Calls
$96:
 2.15-2.96 (+38%)
$97: .88-1.25 (+42%)
$97.50: .79-1.75 (+121%)


Fresh Options Ideas:
SPY 01/19 $478-480 Calls*
TRV Weekly $200-210 Calls*
SLB Weekly $48-49 Calls*

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


Extended Watchlist:
BFX, JTBK, TONR, PHUN, TGL, PCSA, FTCHF, MONI

Across-the-Board Options Sweep & More

A Solid Options Sweep:

We went all out in yesterday morning ‘s report with options ideas in four chains. We’re finally back into the swing of another earnings season and it feels great! We selected three off of the daily earnings calendar, and went with some SPY calls as well, and we were not disappointed in any regard.

All four of our designated targets saw appreciable intraday runs. Those were the SPY 10/20 $448-450 Calls, the NFLX Weekly $635-640 Calls, the TRV Weekly $155 Calls, and the STLD 11/19 $60-65 Calls. Some of the gains were rather modest, but they all went green for us, and here were their intraday ranges and total possible gains:

SPY 10/20 $448-450 Calls
$448: 
1.59-3.28 (+106%)
$449: 1.07-2.40 (+124%)
$450: .68-1.60 (+135%)
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NFLX Weekly $635-640 Calls
$635: 16.55-21.00 (+27%)
$640: 14.70-18.75 (+28%)
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TRV Weekly $155 Calls
$155: 4.15-5.50 (+33%)
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STLD 11/19 $60-65 Calls
$60: 3.20-5.70 (+78%)
$65: 1.15-2.62 (+95%)


Fresh Options Ideas: 
BIIB Weekly $270-275 Calls
ABT Weekly $122-124 Calls


Atea Pharmaceuticals, Inc. AVIR – Recap:

Also in yesterday morning’s report was a tag of AVIR, which gapped down hard in the the premarket and immediately set about filling that gap.

The stock traded in a daily range from a low of 10.76, cruised back to as high as 16.63 (+55%) and did so on massive volume to the tune of more than 34X the daily average. We will continue to track its activity under these interesting circumstances in upcoming sessions.


Extended Watchlist:
AITX, OZSC, SHMP, TONR, SEGI, MTRT, LIGA, RDUS, TRKA, CEI, LMDX