A tale of two AI trades. On the tape, about 29 million dollars of call premium went into Lumentum, a stock that has run nearly 500% in a year and sits just below its all-time high, while only about 7 million went into Alphabet, which is in its longest losing streak since 2015. One trader is chasing a rocket, the other is reaching for a beaten-down giant, and the gap between those two bets is the story.
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Chapters
00:00 Two very different AI trades
00:22 Lumentum's miraculous run
00:36 Google's worst drawdown since 2015
01:07 The giant Lumentum call
01:52 Sitting in the AI bottleneck
02:19 The analyst upgrade chase
03:12 Alphabet's call setup
03:43 Straddling earnings
04:09 Why Google can't get a bid
04:42 CapEx up, free cash flow negative
05:15 The...