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Trade Alert: Through A Violent Tape

Bullish options bets on two of Monday night's Portfolio Armor Top Ten Names and one of our Multibaggers names.

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Mar 03, 2026
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Trading Through a Violent Tape

Despite the market uncertainty created by the war with Iran, we had three profitable trade exits on Monday:

  1. Calls on Nokia Corp. (NOK 0.00%↑). Bought for $0.80 as part of a 3-leg combo on 1/21/2026; sold half for $2.50 on 3/2/2026. Profit: 213%. Signal: PA Top Names.

  2. 3-leg combo on AXT (AXTI 0.00%↑). Entered for a net debit of $2.45 on 12/29/2025; exited the February $15/$10 put spread at a net debit of $0.20 on 2/9/2026; sold the August $20 call for $28.50 on 3/2/2026. Profit: 1,055% (return on max risk: 338%). Signal: Market Watchers.

  3. 3-leg combo on Viavi Solutions (VIAV 0.00%↑). Entered for a net debit of $1.15 on 1/9/2026; exited the February $17/$15 put spread at a net debit of $0.16 on 1/28/2026; sold half of the June $19 calls for $11.20 on 2/27/2026 and the second half for $16.00 on 3/2/2026. Profit: 1,069% (return on max risk: 372%). Signal: PA Top Names.

Those are examples of how our options structures can be adaptive when headlines are driving sharp swings.

Three New Trades Teed Up

We have three new trades teed up for today: two from Portfolio Armor’s Top Names—our in-house source of alpha that has more than doubled the performance of SPY since late 2022—and a third from our Multibaggers list, a subset of our Market Watchers X list comprised of accounts with documented 100%+ gainers over the last year.

The three trades span a leading memory-and-storage semiconductor name, a large-cap generic pharmaceutical company, and a semiconductor foundry. Across all three, we’re continuing to use trade structures designed to harvest high implied volatility and let the whipsaw tape work to our advantage.

Full details below, including the same kinds of preset exit orders that let us automatically harvest profits on those three trades yesterday.

Today’s First Top Names Trade

Memory semiconductors / AI infrastructure theme

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