Trade Alert: Top Names

Two New Trades From Friday’s Top Ten Fit

We’re putting on two new option setups today drawn from Friday’s Top Names list. Both line up neatly with the macro storyline we’ve been leaning into—reindustrialization + embodied AI + energy/compute throughput:

• One is a warehouse-automation/robotics leader (embodied AI + reshoring).

• The other is an AI compute / data-center capacity play (energy & compute bottlenecks).

Why now

• Elevated front-month IV gives us the chance to harvest rich downside while renting upside convexity into (and beyond) upcoming catalysts.

• Both names scored highly on our internal signal Friday, which is my “license” to take another swing when the options board cooperates.

How we’re structuring it (philosophy, not plumbing)

We’re building each trade to use high, pre-catalyst IV to our advantage while keeping risk explicitly bounded. The objectives:

• Monetize elevated downside IV so we’re paid for near-term noise we’re willing to tolerate.

• Rent upside participation into and after the catalyst without overpaying for lotto-style convexity.

• Keep losses defined and acceptable at entry—there’s a hard worst-case, sized so full assignment wouldn’t be a problem.

• Set a favorable break-even close to spot (or only a modest premium above it), so we have multiple ways to win: a pop, a drift higher, or simple IV/Theta decay.

• Align expirations with the catalyst so IV crush works for us, not against us, and we aren’t forced to trade the event directionally.

• Prioritize liquidity and clean execution—tight enough markets to get filled near mid without heroic assumptions.

On exits, we’ll place GTC profit targets to harvest a quick move, and if the name dips on the print we still have time value working in our favor and a pre-agreed max loss cap to keep it mechanical.

Details below.

Today’s First Top Names Trade