Note: I am not looking to debate/convince you or others why it should be a buy or sell or something to stay away from. I kindly ask you stay on topic for my question.
Mostly a safe investor that has built my portfolio to 200k over the years. Normally stay away from gambling and risky trading, but SMCI is one where the potential rewards outweighs the risks for me and I am willing to risk about 10-20k. I have thought about the worst case scenario in seeing that position zero in call premiums or plummet to a third of its value, and perfectly prepared to take the hit and move on.
My question now is where I should trim part of my portfolio to simply buy SMCI and own it, or trim to buy calls. In the worst case scenario where I own it I will still own SMCI which I expect to recover in the long term while the upside is definitely capped. In the worse case scenario where I bought calls I just lost money in premiums and on the upside there is obviously much more potential rewards to be had if SMCI balloons over the week.