38 Stocks Moving In Thursday's Mid-Day Session


27% profit every 20 days?

This is what Nic Chahine averages with his option buys. Not selling covered calls or spreads… BUYING options. Most traders don’t even have a winning percentage of 27% buying options. He has an 83% win rate. Here’s how he does it.


Gainers

  • Baudax Bio, Inc. (NASDAQ:BXRX) shares rose 29.8% to $0.2550. Baudax Bio, last month, announced a $4.2 million registered direct offering.
  • Vertical Aerospace Ltd. (NYSE:EVTL) gained 29.1% to $9.50. Barclays, on Tuesday, initiated coverage on the stock with an Underweight rating and a $7 price target.
  • DatChat, Inc. (NASDAQ:DATS) shares jumped 26.8% to $3.7899 after the company signed a letter of intent to acquire Avila Security Corporation for $1 million in cash and the greater of 739,650 shares of restricted common stock or $2.5 million of restricted common stock.
  • Luminar Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ:LAZR) surged 17.5% to $15.80 after the company announced a partnership with Mercedes-Benz to accelerate the development of future highly automated driving technologies for Mercedes passenger cars.
  • SoFi Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ:SOFI) gained 17.3% to $16.08.
  • Full Truck Alliance Co. Ltd. (NYSE:YMM) rose 16.2% to $9.67.
  • Ipsidy Inc. (NASDAQ:AUID) jumped 16.2% to $8.61. authID.ai announced the launch of Verified™ Platform Version 2.4.
  • InnSuites Hospitality Trust (NYSE:IHT) rose 15.6% to $4.5791.
  • Olink Holding AB (publ) (NASDAQ:OLK) gained 14.8% to $15.00. Olink Holding said it will use Olink® Explore 3072 to analyze 1,000 patient samples from a new cohort study in China.
  • Absci Corporation (NASDAQ:ABSI) jumped 14% to $7.75. Absci recently announced a research collaboration with Merck.
  • Gamida Cell Ltd. (NASDAQ:GMDA) surged 13.9% to $3.0989. Gamida recently announced plans to initiate a rolling BLA submission for Omidubicel and a full BLA submission is on track for the first half of 2022.
  • Opera Limited (NASDAQ:OPRA) jumped 13.7% to $7.21 after the company announced a $50 million buyback.
  • Casper Sleep Inc. (NYSE:CSPR) gained 13.4% to $6.49 after the company announced stockholder approval of a merger agreement.
  • Regional Health Properties, Inc. (NYSE:RHE) shares jumped 12.5% to $4.49.
  • Sunworks, Inc. (NASDAQ:SUNW) jumped 12.1% to $2.6305.
  • IceCure Medical Ltd (NASDAQ:ICCM) rose 12.1% to $2.50 after dipping more than 10% on Wednesday.
  • Trip.com Group Limited (NASDAQ:TCOM) shares rose 11.6% to $26.20.
  • Sunrun Inc. (NASDAQ:RUN) gained 11% to $30.77.
  • JD.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:JD) rose 10.6% to $79.93. Shares of several Chinese stocks traded higher after the People's Bank of China cut key lending rates.
  • CIRCOR International, Inc. (NYSE:CIR) gained 10.2% to $26.09. CIRCOR International said Scott Buckhout will step down as President and Chief Executive Officer.
  • Bit Digital, Inc. (NASDAQ:BTBT) rose 8.6% to $5.45 after declining around 9% on Wednesday.
  • Pinduoduo Inc. (NASDAQ:PDD) shares gained 7.2% to $68.87. Shares of several Chinese stocks traded higher after the People's Bank of China cut key lending rates.
  • Alibaba Group Holding Limited (NYSE:BABA) rose 5.4% to $134.60. The People’s Bank of China (PBOC) cut key lending rates to support the Chinese economy.

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Losers

  • China Finance Online Co. Limited (NASDAQ:JRJC) shares dipped 41.1% to $3.81 after the company announced it has received a notice of delisting from Nasdaq.
  • Star Equity Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ:STRR) shares fell 24.7% to $1.2499 after the company reported pricing of $14.25 million underwritten public offering.
  • G Medical Innovations Holdings Ltd (NASDAQ:GMVD) fell 24.3% to $4.6320 after jumping 45% on Wednesday. EH Hutton, on Tuesday, initiated coverage on the stock with a Buy rating and a $6 price target.
  • Valneva SE (NASDAQ:VALN) fell 20.4% to $37.83. Valneva shares jumped 45% on Wednesday after results from an initial laboratory study demonstrated that serum antibodies induced by three doses of Valneva's COVID-19 vaccine candidate, VLA2001, neutralize the omicron variant.
  • TaskUs, Inc. (NASDAQ:TASK) dropped 16.6% to $29.65. Spruce Point named the stock as new short call with '50% downside,' setting a $18 price target.
  • BT Brands, Inc. (NASDAQ:BTBD) fell 15.8% to $2.81.
  • Splash Beverage Group, Inc. (NYSE:SBEV) dropped 13.8% to $3.41. Splash Beverage Group jumped 22% on Wednesday after the company announced it has received authorization to sell its Pulpoloco Sangria line in 187 of Ralph's Grocery stores.
  • Revelation Biosciences, Inc. (NASDAQ:REVB) dropped 12.7% to $3.9626. Revelation Biosciences said first group of patients have been dosed in Phase 2b viral challenge study to assess efficacy of intranasal REVTx-99 for the prevention of H3N2 influenza infection.
  • BTCS Inc. (NASDAQ:BTCS) dropped 12.2% to $5.69.
  • Yoshitsu Co., Ltd (NASDAQ:TKLF) shares fell 11.1% to $29.11.
  • Cardiff Oncology, Inc. (NASDAQ:CRDF) dipped 10.3% to $4.0801. Cardiff Oncology recently announced data from its lead clinical program evaluating onvansertib in combination with standard-of-care FOLFIRI/bevacizumab.
  • Marker Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ:MRKR) fell 9.5% to $0.7597. The company announced it received FDA Orphan Drug designation for its multi-antigen target T cell therapy for pancreatic cancer.
  • Vinco Ventures, Inc. (NASDAQ:BBIG) fell 9.3% to $4.11 after declining around 13% on Wednesday.
  • AppTech Payments Corp. (NASDAQ:APCX) dropped 8.6% to $2.0012.
  • Vaxxinity, Inc. (NASDAQ:VAXX) fell 8.3% to $7.28. Vaxxinity recently announced the first Parkinson's disease patient has been dosed in Part B of a Phase 1 clinical trial of UB-312.

27% profit every 20 days?

This is what Nic Chahine averages with his option buys. Not selling covered calls or spreads… BUYING options. Most traders don’t even have a winning percentage of 27% buying options. He has an 83% win rate. Here’s how he does it.


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