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[Brian Hunt @curator_trader]

Trucking stocks. Steel. Hotels. Shopping malls. Industrial firms.

All surging to new highs.

Now add airlines: $DAL, $AAL, and $UAL just hit multi-year highs.

These are not tech stocks.

They rise and fall with America's ability to build things, move things, buy things, and travel.

And they're all booming.

You can read a thousand opinions about the economy. Or you can watch market prices - the most distilled source of insider knowledge on earth.

Right now, the market is saying one thing loud and clear:

"We're booming. Trade accordingly."

[Keith Kaplan @KeithTradeSmith]

The whole semiconductor complex closed at all-time highs on Monday - that is a tell regardless of today's action.

$AMD, $MU, $AMAT, $KLAC, $LRCX, $ADI, $TXN, $MCHP and $INTC all finished at record closes and the ETFs $SMH $SOXL went with them.

#semiconductors #stocks #trading

[Brian Hunt @curator_trader]

FERC just ordered grid operators to fast-track power connections for data centers - and the market responded instantly.

Bloom Energy $BE surged 15.4% to an all-time high last week.

Here's why this matters:

Every AI model, every AI chip, every AI application needs one thing:

Electricity.

Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Meta & others have already committed $1T+ to AI infrastructure with $700B more coming in 2026 alone.

Goldman Sachs forecasts data center power demand up 50% by 2027. And up 165% by the decade's end.

You don't have bet on which AI model wins.
Or which is the right chip.

You just have to recognize that every using AI has to buy power to run it.

Trends persist. $BE remains one to watch.

[Brian Hunt @curator_trader]

The bull market in genomics is officially on.

$ARKG surged 5% yesterday to a multi-year high. $TWST hit a high too.

Why it matters?

Genomics could be the next big AI trade. AI + DNA Analysis = personalized medicine at a scale never seen before.

We're talking millions of drug simulations run by super intelligent models, gene editing that actually cures disease, treatments tailored to your individual DNA.

$ARKG holds $TEM, $NTRA, $ILMN, $CRSP. All great trades.

[Brian Hunt @curator_trader]

Being bullish on "AI chemicals" is paying off.

This morning, two stocks in our basket hit new all-time highs:

$ENTG (Entegris) +38% since March
$ESI (Element Solutions) +41% since March
$CC (Chemours) +36% since March — with a 37% YoY surge in AI data center coolant sales

Here's the thesis in one sentence:

Every AI server relies on a long chain of ultra-pure, ultra-specific chemicals - from semiconductor manufacturing gases to data center coolants and flame retardants.

Big tech is on pace to spend $700B on AI infrastructure THIS year alone. $3T+ to follow.

All of that infrastructure needs chemicals upstream. The trend is up.

[Mike Zaccardi, CFA, CMT 🍖 @MikeZaccardi]

GS: AI hyperscalers are expected to spend c.$755 billion on capex in 2026

[Keith Kaplan @KeithTradeSmith]

50% of under-65 heart attack victims were rated "low risk" before it hit.

$GH $NTRA $ABT $LNTH $GRAL

The market is already moving. U.S. health care diagnostics was $35.7 billion in 2024 and is on track for nearly $60 billion by 2030. And Clinical diagnostics is heading to $170 billion.

AI is the accelerant. Coronary inflammation imaging, liquid biopsies that flag cancer DNA years before tumors form, and genetic risk profiling are reshaping the field.

Boomers retiring at 10,000/day.

A stocks worth watching:

- Guardant Health $GH ($17.5B). Revenue hit $982M in 2025, up 33% YoY. Guardant360 Liquid just won FDA approval across lung, colorectal, and breast cancers.

- Natera $NTRA ($32B). Signatera detects residual cancer at the molecular level. Revenue surged 36% in 2025 to $2.3B, with 21% growth forecast in 2026.

- Lantheus Holdings $LNTH ($6.5B). PYLARIFY is the gold standard for prostate cancer PET scans. 2025 revenue of $1.54B.

- GRAIL $GRAL and Abbott $ABT round out the basket - one a multi-cancer early detection pure-play, the other a $160B dividend-paying blue chip.

[Brian Hunt @curator_trader]

About three weeks ago, I suggested the health care sector was due for a rebound and trading it from the long side made sense.

This trade idea has become a solid winner.

A reminder:
More than 10,000 Americans reach retirement age every day.
The U.S. population aged 80 or older is projected to roughly double, from 14.7 million in 2025 to 29.4 million by 2045.

This means many health care businesses are experiencing huge demand now and will for at least the next decade.

Investing in well-positioned health care businesses is heavily rigged in your favour to the upside now.

[Brian Hunt @curator_trader]

Humanoid robots are here and so are the returns.

Our 6-stock basket to play the humanoid megatrend is up 50% since February.

$VPG alone is up 155% and hit a new all-time this week.

The play? Don't bet on one robot maker. Bet on the precision components every humanoid needs to function - whoever wins the robot war.

Tesla, Google, Amazon & Microsoft are pouring billions in. Elon calls it "the biggest product of all time."

We're staying long. The trend is just getting started.

[Brian Hunt @curator_trader]

$LLY +7% (last week)
$XLV +4% (last week)
$PJP +4% (last week)

All whilst $COPX fell 11%, $SLV fell 11%, and $URA fell 11%.

When a basket of stocks fall, you want to see what rises. That's happening in the healthcare sector right now.

It's a nice reminder as to why "Boomer Health Care" is a compelling long term investment.

More than 10,000 American's reach retirement age every day.

The Baby Boom generation is entering the phase of life where health care and longevity spending skyrockets.

Bullish $LLY, $XLV, $PJP

[Brian Hunt @curator_trader]

Health care wasn’t the only industry that enjoyed relative strength on a terrible day for the broad market.

On Friday, the Utility sector showed that it’s a safe way to invest in AI without touching a conventional technology stock.

Back in July 2025, I highlighted the emerging uptrend in the Utilities Select Sector SPDR Fund $XLU and said AI power demand was poised to drive it higher. This ETF owns a diversified basket of major U.S. electric power producers. I’ve called the stocks “the safe way to invest in AI power demand.”

Regular readers know one of the largest and most profitable facets of the AI megatrend is power consumption. Given AI’s enormous promise, large tech firms such as Google, Amazon, Microsoft, OpenAI, Oracle, and Meta have invested over $1 trillion in semiconductors, data centers, and other components of AI infrastructure. They are on pace to invest around $700 billion this year alone and more than $3 trillion after that.

Both the scale and the velocity of this investment boom are unprecedented. It is the largest collective investment effort of all-time.

All that AI infrastructure is poised to consume huge amounts of electricity. Goldman Sachs forecasts global power demand from data centers will climb 50% by 2027 and as much as 165% by the end of the decade. This demand is driving a big bull market in virtually every form of electric power production.

One of my recommended ways to invest in this megatrend is via electric power producers… aka “electric utilities.” When you invest in utilities, you are not risking your money by trying to pick the company that creates the best AI model or the best AI-powered fintech application.

Instead, you’re making the safe bet that every company and every individual using AI ends up buying some electricity to power it. It’s the old “selling picks and shovels to Gold Rush miners” strategy applied to AI.

On Friday, $XLU did not decline along with the broad market. Instead, it advanced 0.93% as investors fled “high growth, high volatility” stocks and bought steadier themes like utilities.

Utility stocks don’t offer the same kind of upside as many of the themes we cover at Money & Megatrends. But they do offer safety and stability.

And as far as their role in the historic AI trend, they have the wonderful quality in that no matter who builds the best AI models… no matter who builds the best AI applications… no matter who builds the best AI semiconductors… every AI company and every AI user must buy some electricity to power it. The long-term demand outlook is extraordinary. I remain bullish on the utilities uptrend.

[Brian Sozzi @BrianSozzi]

Goldman Sachs on AI:

"We now expect a combined $5.3 trillion of capex spending for the four largest hyperscalers from FY2025 to FY2030 (Meta, Microsoft, Amazon, and Alphabet). We highlight a baseline aggregate capex estimate of $7.6 trillion between 2026 and 2031, across compute, data centers and power."

[Keith Kaplan @KeithTradeSmith]

$AMZN entered a Green Zone

15-year win rate: 100.00%
Avg gain: 8.18% (78.59% annualized)
Runs June 12 to July 20

#AMZN #seasonality #stocks #trading

[Keith Kaplan @KeithTradeSmith]

The Semiconductor Grand Slam Isn't Over: $SMH $INTC $AMD

Since April 1, $INTC is up 183%, $AMD is up 123%, and $QCOM, $MRVL, and $ON have all gained more than 50%. In just six weeks, the semiconductor industry has added over $3.7 trillion in market cap.

The VanEck Semiconductor ETF $SMH is up 156% over the past year.

The "AI is a bubble" crowd has been wrong for three years running. They're still wrong.

After this kind of run, a short-term correction would be normal. Markets are like runners. They can't sprint flat out for miles. But the megatrend underneath is intact.

AI is the most transformational technology of our time. The world's smartest and wealthiest builders are pouring trillions into its progress. This isn't a fad any more than electricity or the automobile was a fad. The Agent Supernova is coming, and this trend will play out for more than a decade.

The winning move is to ride out the corrections and stay long the strongest aspects of the semiconductor megatrend. Don't try to time the breather. Use it.

[Keith Kaplan @KeithTradeSmith]

$STRL's 52% single-day surge on blowout earnings just proved E&C is the real megatrend of 2026. Revenue up 92%, adjusted earnings up 120%, guidance crushing estimates by $600M.

$STRL $MTZ $AGX $AAPL $NVDA

The E&C basket is up 76% year-to-date. Big Tech's $700B AI data center spend plus Trump's manufacturing push are fueling a historic infrastructure cycle.

#investing #infrastructure

[Keith Kaplan @KeithTradeSmith]

AI's Power Appetite: Why IPPs Like Vistra Energy and Constellation Are Positioned to Win

Data centers already consume 7% of U.S. electric power. By 2030, global data center power demand is expected to surge 220% compared to 2023 levels. That's not incremental growth, it's a wholesale redrawing of the energy landscape.

This explosive demand for juice is creating a once-in-a-generation opportunity for independent power producers. Unlike regulated utilities, IPPs operate freely and can take risks their government-controlled competitors cannot. They can also charge higher prices.

Two names dominate this space: Vistra Energy $VST and Constellation Energy $CEG. These are among America's largest electric power producers, with fleets of power plants, mostly nuclear stations. They're poised to be the go-to plays for large money managers seeking exposure to AI-driven power demand growth. Even top hedge fund manager Dan Loeb owns both.

The fundamentals are undeniably bullish. Vistra, after rallying hard from early 2024 through early 2025, has recently entered a pattern of higher highs and higher lows since February. Given the structural tailwinds in the electric power industry, that chart pattern suggests plenty of room to run upward.

The AI infrastructure boom isn't just a software story. It's a power story. And Vistra and Constellation are two of the best vehicles to play it.

[Keith Kaplan @KeithTradeSmith]

New Highs Across the AI Stack: $RSPT, $STX, $MU, $LITE, $INTC All Hitting Fresh Peaks

The AI infrastructure boom keeps printing receipts. Today's tape was loaded with new highs across the megatrend.

Invesco Equal Weight Technology ETF $RSPT, our broad AI infrastructure play, hit a new one-year high. We've called this "the largest investment effort in all recorded history" and the chart agrees.

Our AI chemical call from earlier this spring is paying off in spades. Chemours $CC just printed a new high and is up 61% since the note went out.

The "ignore the AI bears" trade keeps working. Memory makers Seagate $STX and Micron $MU both hit fresh all-time highs. Optical networking leader Lumentum $LITE printed a new all-time high. Intel $INTC hit a new one-year high. Data center networking name Lightwave Logic $LWLG also hit a new one-year high.

Two non-AI signals worth noting:

Lamar Advertising $LAMR, America's largest billboard company, hit a new all-time high. When companies are spending big to advertise, the economy is humming. Bullish macro signal.

Lululemon $LULU printed a new multi-year low. Classic case of a market leader getting flooded by cheaper competitors. The premium pricing power has cracked.

The big picture: AI infrastructure is the most powerful trend in the market and the new-high list is telling you exactly where the money is flowing.

[Keith Kaplan @KeithTradeSmith]

20 stocks just entered the short-term Green Zone ...

Near-term momentum has turned positive and price is back above key risk levels.

$AD $CINF $TBRG $CACC $FITB $FCEL $GBCI $GDEN $IDR $SBUX $WTFC $WT $APH $NLY $MT $BBVA $SAN $BNS $TFC $CCJ

US regionals and international banks turning green together. Financials cluster.

#TradeStops #GreenZone #stocks #trading

[Keith Kaplan @KeithTradeSmith]

The infrastructure race is reshaping the entire commodity sector. Over the last month, the best-performing ETFs all connect back to the same theme: global demand for AI data center construction.

$LIT is up 26.6%. $URA climbed 24.3%. $SMH rose 23.9%. $COPX added 22.9%. Even $GDX followed with a 17.9% gain. These aren't random moves. They're threads in the same tapestry.

Here's why they're all climbing together. Copper wires the facilities. Lithium powers the backup batteries. Uranium fuels next-generation nuclear plants. Semiconductors are the brains inside every compute rack. Gold appears in CPUs, GPUs, motherboards, and electrical connectors.

The mega-cap cloud operators are spending at an unprecedented pace. Microsoft, Amazon, Google, and Meta are collectively on track to deploy over $750 billion in infrastructure this year alone.

Microsoft's recent $9.7 billion deal with a single data center operator tells the story. The company in question was once a bitcoin miner, but has pivoted sharply to AI cloud infrastructure. It now operates facilities powered entirely by renewable energy, controls over 4.5 gigawatts of power capacity, and is deploying up to 140,000 GPUs for AI cloud clients. That's $IREN.

A technical signal on $IREN just registered with an 88.4% accuracy rate historically, an average return of +5.5%, and a typical hold time of just 4 days. Market timing remains uncertain. But the structural thesis is intact: when the most powerful companies on earth are building infrastructure faster than ever before, the materials that wire it all together tend to perform well.

Source: https://t.co/Ws1jSjsJEi

[Keith Kaplan @KeithTradeSmith]

The breadth of today's rally tells the story: across AI infrastructure, semiconductor equipment, power grid upgrades, and construction, new all-time highs are piling up. This isn't concentrated momentum in a single narrative. It's systematic expansion.

AI Infrastructure: Dell $DELL continues its relentless move higher, now up 154% over the last year. Bloom Energy $BE reached an all-time high today with a 6.4% gain, riding the wave of power-intensive data centers demanding new energy solutions.

Semiconductor Equipment: Amkor $AMKR, KLA Corp $KLAC, Arista Networks $ANET, ASE Technology $ASX, and Onto Innovation $ONTO all hit new highs. This cluster of strength signals confidence in semiconductor capex cycles ahead.

Optics and Power Grid: Applied Optoelectronics $AAOI posted another new high, extending its 331% year-to-date run. Quanta Services $PWR hit new highs and is up 141% over the last year, reflecting sustained demand for grid modernization.

Infrastructure: MasTec $MTZ and Sterling Infrastructure $STRL reached new all-time highs today, validating the construction boom narrative driven by energy transition and infrastructure spending.

One note of caution: Boston Scientific $BSX reached a one-year low, down 35% over the last year. A pocket of weakness in medical devices is worth watching.

The pattern is clear - theme-driven leadership across multiple sectors, with investors showing high conviction in infrastructure, AI, and energy plays.