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Trade Alert: Top Names + Robotics

Trade Alert: Top Names + Robotics

Bullish options trades on our #2 name from last night's top ten and on a robotics name.

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Grid Hardening & Warehouse Robotics

The top names screen surfaced an asymmetric opportunity last night—the grid‑hardening play outlined below—while the robotics idea comes from our ongoing macro theme work and a fresh insight in Citrini Research’s latest “Robotics Update.”

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Both stories are consistent with themes we’ve profited from before (infrastructure tailwinds and AI-driven automation) but hit different corners of the market.


1 ▸ The Grid‑Hardening Sleeper

  • Why now? The company’s fiscal Q2 results, reported in mid‑May, landed well ahead of plan and management nudged FY earnings guidance higher.

  • Catalyst window:

    • First week of August earnings and conference call.

  • Risk guardrails: Lumpiness in utility orders can sting, but a record backlog plus 40‑year customer relationships cushion surprises.

We’ll walk through a trade in the premium section that breaks even just 2 percent above spot and offers a max gain of about 100%.


2 ▸ The AI‑Robotics Option

Amazon’s (AMZN 0.00%↑) new “Vulcan” warehouse arm quietly uses “cobots” (collaborative robots, robots designed to work with humans) from the robotics unit of a well‑known test‑equipment maker.

  • Why it matters: Those cobots are already integrated with Nvidia’s (NVDA 0.00%↑) Isaac stack, giving the segment an AI halo just as GPU‑driven path‑planning moves from demo to deployment.

  • Catalyst runway:

    • July 25: Amazon’s Q2 call could disclose initial Vulcan roll‑out numbers.

    • Following week: Parent company’s earnings and 10‑Q will break out Robotics revenue.

    • Early January: CES 2026 robot buzz.

In the premium section we’ll lay out our trade designed to capture this potential upside, one that can give us a shot at >250% gain if we’re right.

Details below.


Today’s Top Names Trade

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