I almost got myself killed on AMD earnings because I thought I was being clever.
AMD closed around $355 on May 5 before reporting. The stock had already been running hard with the AI trade, so my plan was to fade it if it popped. I was looking at 0DTE puts for the next morning because in my head this was one of those “great numbers, sell the news” setups.
Then earnings hit after the close and my agent started pushing back immediately. TradingNews was pushing real-time news to my agent, in the actual numbers and the tone was way stronger than I wanted to admit. Revenue came in at $10.25B, data center revenue was up 57% to $5.8B, and the Q2 guide was around $11.2B. The feed kept repeating the same themes too: AI server demand, EPYC strength, Instinct ramp, and AMD getting repriced as a real data center story.
I still wanted the puts. That’s the stupid part. AMD was already up after hours and I kept telling myself the higher it went, the better the fade would be. But the move just kept holding. By the next morning it was around $420, up close to 18%, and semis were moving with it.
I never took the trade, mostly because of what TradingNews had been showing for hours. My original idea was “AI is crowded.” The market was trading something completely different.
That hesitation probably saved me from watching 0DTE puts go to almost zero before I even finished my coffee.