Trade Alert: Earnings and AI Hardware
A short-term earnings trade on a brokerage stock and a longer-term bullish options bet on an AI hardware stock in our top ten names.
Volatility, Clusters, And Two New Trades
Over the last few months, we’ve seen a familiar pattern in our system: when multiple names from the same narrow corner of the market hit Portfolio Armor’s daily Top Ten list at once, it often precedes a strong move in that space. That happened again Friday night with several names tied to AI infrastructure and related hardware.
The broader track record of these lists continues to be excellent. Across 134 completed six-month cohorts since late 2022, our Top Names have returned an average of 20.58%, versus 10.23% for SPY over the same windows—more than double the market’s return.
Today, we’re doing two things:
Taking a short-dated, defined-risk earnings swing on a brokerage stock we’ve traded before, one that recently started to pass our reentry timing filters again (RSI back in the 30–70 band, setup rating ≥5, and a near-term earnings catalyst).
Putting on a new Top Names trade in an optical/datacenter hardware name that checked our timing boxes and fits into the same AI-adjacent cluster that has produced a number of recent winners.
Details on both structures are below for paid subscribers.
Today’s Earnings Trade
(Earnings / retail brokerage platform theme)
