It was remarked during our Analyst meeting this morning that "bullish Wells Fargo" is a phrase that hasn't been uttered within our digital walls in a long, long time.

But we're looking to get more exposure to the banking sector, and $WFC is consolidating nicely after a fresh breakout last week. With all-time highs within bull market distance, we feel like we can get aggressive with this name for a run.

Implied volatility in $WFC call options is pretty tame here, so that affords us the luxury of going out six months to play the June options which will give us plenty of time to see if $WFC has the stuff.

Here's a chart of $WFC to set the stage:

One of the things we like to do repeatedly at All Star Charts is position ourselves in leading stocks in leading sectors. Just writing that out may sound completely obvious to some, but too often I see traders trying to get cute to find the "undiscovered gems" that will be the next big winner.

Call me old-fashioned, but I prefer getting involved in stocks that are already doing what we want them to do, and I want to let inertia take over.

Today's trade in Southern Copper is one in which both inertia and "magnets" may play a part in delivering gains to us.

Short-term traders will classify today's trade as a "hard trade."

We're positioning in a stock that has already had a significant run over the past two months. But if we widen out our lens and look at weekly or monthly candles, we'll see that this stock is making fresh all-time highs out of a monster base which can fuel a dramatic push higher.

Check out this chart of Lululemon $LULU:

My favorite setups are stocks making new all-time highs after emerging from a consolidation.

My second favorite setup is a 52-week breakout.

We're on the cusp of getting one in Autodesk $ADSK.

Check out this chart:

Spotify is trading in the spot where we can get paid on follow-thru back toward all-time highs. But we don't necessarily need it to get all the way there for us to earn profits on today's trade.

Here's a chart of $SPOT:

The speculative juices are returning to the cryptocurrency space, and the bulls are starting to reemerge from the shadows as Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, and many of the smaller (MOAR!) speculative names are starting some eye-popping gains.

As equities traders, we don't have a proper spot ETF to play anything in the crypto space, but the closest thing we have is Microstrategy $MSTR.

So we're going to use this vehicle to make a speculative bet on a potential upside-down waterfall move in Bitcoin.

Today's trade has me thinking of this classic corny joke from Pulp Fiction:

One of the strongest sectors out there right now is banking. Particularly regional banks. And as we head into year-end, the catch-up trade is real and money managers chasing alpha are looking into some beaten-up names in the regional banks to get the juice they need to make their year.

This plays in favor of today's trade which has a yawning gap to fill which is likely to overshoot on the upside if a broader market melt-up is in the cards (narrator: we think it is).

Check out this chart of KeyCorp $KEY:

I'm beginning to sound like a broken record regarding "hard trades," but they just keep working. Look at COIN and UBER as examples.

Today's trade is in a software name that has two things going for it right now:

1. it's hard.
2. it's a potential "catch up" trade.

The hard trades continue to work, and I shouldn't argue with the market's message.

And right now, the market is telling me there are opportunities in Chinese stocks.

Today's trade is in a Chinese education company that promises to teach us something valuable.

During our Analyst meeting this morning, the idea I brought to the table was a long bet in Cloudflare $NET.

I like that it's just starting to break above a level of resistance that has been in place for the better part of two years.

My initial thought was to make a short-term tactical bet on a run to $100, but then I noticed that in the June options expiration series, the highest strike available is $110. Clearly the CBOE doesn't read All Star Charts research and our belief that this stock could touch $130 per share over the next 3-6 months!

Check out this chart of $NET and you'll see a move to $130 doesn't seem that outlandish at all:

Ok, I took some liberties with today's title. I can already hear JC groaning. Blog post titles are not my strength. I accept this.

A book I recently read (Number Go Up), and today's trade in $LIN inspired my thinking about lines going up.

Moving on, let's get into what we like about this stock and how we're playing it with options.

If a new leg of the bull market is just getting started, positioning in the leaders should pay off well. With this in mind, we're going to get involved in a name everyone knows and uses -- Amazon. The odds are good that Amazon will deliver profits to those well-positioned for a run.

Implied volatility in the options affords us the luxury to go further out in time for our thesis to play out, but we're going to cap our upside both because we think there will be some upside resistance that comes into play and also to increase our odds of success.