Anatomy of a Trade - 10/14/25
Reindustrialisation requires infrastructures, who's gonna build them?
I’ve always said that fundamentals, research & convictions matter, but beating the market comes down to execution. That’s what these write-ups will be about.
I will share through them every change in my active portfolio - stocks & options, reasonings & plans, before I even hit the buttons. I won’t update DCAs, I will only share my plans & new/closed positions in these write-ups. You can follow the rest directly on savvytrader.
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Keep in mind that both portfolios have completely different goals and I can behave very differently on both for the same name - accumulating in the buy & hodl while selling in the active portfolio for example. Different rules apply.
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Rapid words on the market from my swing trader point of view before we start this new trade idea as I am closing my SBET position - as discussed last week. The thesis remains the same but the S&P500 had a clear rejection on its daily 21 yesterday and appears to go lower today.
The signs are here, we’ll very probably have a weaker period and we need it, and I do not want to hold too speculative assets in those periods. Better safe than sorry, and I don’t want to rely on Trump’s post for my swings to print money. As everytime, he can save us all with one post, but I won’t risk it.
Capital preservation. I’ll be back on this trade once we have more confirmations.
Reindustrialisation.
Trump focused on one very clear vertical since he took over the Oval Office less than a year ago: reindustrialisation. He went through many controversial reforms, pushed for commitments and made deals with companies and countries with one goal: bringing back manufacturing locally.
The market had doubts, but after a few months, it seems that many plans will become reality, primarily in two verticals: energy and high-end technological hubs; mostly semiconductor fabs.
We’ve talked about Fluor Corporation already, as we had a very good trade on it not that long ago, and I set up another one just now. Here’s a brief overview of what they do:
Fluor is a global engineering, procurement, construction, and maintenance (EPCM) company, specializing in delivering major infrastructure and industrial projects, with a strong emphasis on energy and urban development and a significant presence in government and mission-critical projects worldwide.
44% of Fluor’s revenues come from infrastructure & advanced tech projects, and 37% from energy infrastructure projects.
If that description doesn’t fit Trump’s plans… what does? We’re talking large nuclear programs, large energy and LNG programs, big data center builds - Stargate for the government backed sector, many more private ones; many infrastructure projects where Fluor could play a role - large or small.
Liquidity and Technicals.
As usual, my trades have three conditions: strong fundamentals/narrative, bullish price action and liquidity confirmation. We have it all here.
In terms of price action, the stock ranged for weeks after a huge drawdown, which started quickly after we closed our trade earlier this year.
Clear consolidation followed by a breakout on Monday’s session, now trading above its three principal daily EMAs. The perfect entry would be on the retest of this breakout around $45.
To be entirely fair, the sharp drop in July was because of the company’s results. They disappointed on revenues & earnings, and shared a shrinking backlog. Nothing very positive, right?
The positive comes now. The option flow woke up last week with out-of-the-money call options inflows, including a 5,000-contract order yesterday at a strike price of $52.5, more than 10% above the current price.
Two arguments from me here: someone always knows, & these companies’ businesses are all about contracts. Simple 1+1 from here.
There are no guarantees in the market. Never. But the conditions are aligned here for me to start a position, so I did. As for is someone simply betting on the stock or does someone knows something others ignore… We’ll have the answer before year end.
The Playbook.
As usual, the same trades can be taken with hundreds of different methodologies: buy shares and hold; play calls or sell puts; combine those; play with the timeframes… I’ll present mine, but these write-ups are here to share ideas, not to tell you exactly what to do.
On my end, I do not want to hold shares and do not want to play calls right now. But I am comfortable selling puts here. There’s a massive bottom around $40, my thought process doesn’t go much further. I started a small position expiring Jan ‘26, but would take profits before if the calls bought - which expire in November turn out to be insiders. I’ll also increase the position if we see a retest discussed earlier around $45.
Once again: we all engineer our trades depending on our own objectives, portfolios & needs. I share my reasoning and playbook transparently, but your goal is to use it as inspiration, not as an example.
In my case, the market continues to be shaky and the S&P still trade below its daily 21 which isn’t bullish, so I won’t build aggressive positions. But I have cash aside, selling puts on a quality name with a strong narrative is the best use for it right now, until the market gives bullish confirmations and I can build more aggressive positions.
The position remains small, not overly risky, and meet my setup conditions.
That’s me. Every book is different.