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Kevin Kelly of Benchmark Investments spoke on Bloomberg Markets about a bullish options strategy in Crown Castle (NYSE: CCI). He noticed the implied volatility in the name is elevated and that the CEO was buying the company's shares last month. Kelly wants to capitalize on the increased...

Speaking on Bloomberg Markets, Mark Sebastian of Options Pit suggested a bullish options strategy in Paypal Holdings Inc (NASDAQ: PYPL). Sebastian wants to buy the October 95 calls for $1.85. The trade breaks even at $96.85 or 4.90 percent above the current stock price.

Kevin Kelly of Benchmark Investments spoke on Bloomberg Markets about a bullish options strategy in Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMD). He's bullish because he expects to see a strong demand for EPYC, AMD's server processor for data centers. He wants to buy the February 24/35...

Speaking on Bloomberg Markets, Jim Strugger of MKM Partners recommended two options strategies in Lululemon Athletica inc. (NASDAQ: LULU), which is going to report earnings on Thursday after the close. To make a bullish trade, Strugger wants to buy the October 145/155 call spread for $3. The trade...

Alon Rosin of Oppenheimer suggested on Bloomberg Markets that investors should consider using options to trade Autodesk, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADSK) and Salesforce.com, inc. (NYSE: CRM). These stocks have Outperform ratings at Oppenheimer, so Rosin wants to get a long exposure. He wants to sell the 125...

Speaking on Bloomberg Markets, Jim Strugger suggested an options strategy in Guess?, Inc. (NYSE: GES) ahead of the earnings results next week. He wants to buy a 1x0.5 ratio strangle. Specifically, he wants to buy the September 26 call for 80 cents and the September 21 put in a ration 1 to 0.5. The...

Interactive Brokers' chief options strategist, Steve Sosnick, spoke on Bloomberg Markets about an options trading strategy in Boeing Co (NYSE: BA). He thinks the stock is starting to form a topping pattern and he wants to sell the September 320 put and buy the October 320 put for $2.25. To make...

Kevin Kelly of Benchmark Investments spoke on Bloomberg Markets about a bullish options trade in JD.Com Inc(ADR) (NASDAQ: JD). He sees the company as the Walmart Inc (NYSE: WMT) of China. To make a bullish bet, Kelly wants to buy the January 2020, 37 strike call for $8.50 and sell the January 2020...

Speaking on Bloomberg Markets, Mark Sebastian of Option Pit suggested a bullish options trade in Russell 2000. He thinks higher interest rates are going to help the index to trade higher because it has a lot of small cap and mid cap banks. Sebastian believes the Russell 2000 could be a big...

Steve Sosnick of Interactive Brokers spoke on Bloomberg Markets about a bearish options trade in SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (NYSE: SPY). He wants to buy the June 270/267 put spread for $1. The trade breaks even at $269 or 1.11 percent below the current stock price. If the stock drops to $267 or...

Speaking on Bloomberg Markets, Alon Rosin suggested an options strategy in Yelp Inc (NYSE: YELP) ahead of earnings. The company is going to report earnings on Thursday and Rosin recommended a put backspread strategy for investors with a long position in the name. For a position of 500,000 shares,...

Kevin Kelly spoke on Bloomberg Markets about a bullish options trade in Equinix Inc (NASDAQ: EQIX). He wants to buy the September 400/450 call spread in the name for $15.50. The trade breaks even at $415.50 or 5.41 percent above the current market price. It can maximally make a profit of $34.50....

Chris Kettenmann of Macro Risk Advisors spoke on Bloomberg Markets about a bullish options trade in United States Oil Fund LP (ETF) (NYSE: USO). He's bullish on crude oil into the year end, but he thinks there's going to be some volatility on May 12 when President Trump decides on Iran...

Speaking on Bloomberg Markets, Scott Bauer, the CEO of Prosper Trading Academy, suggested a bullish options trade in Big Lots, Inc. (NYSE: BIG). The company is going to report earnings Friday and Bauer is optimistic because of the recent analyst upgrades. He added that the stock is approaching the...