Trading The BottlenecksOn Monday, we wrote about “Trading The Blockade”.The point was simple: this market keeps rewarding investors who focus on bottlenecks.Some are geopolitical bottlenecks: the Strait of Hormuz, oil flows, shipping, LNG, energy infrastructure, and the second-order inflation pressure from higher energy costs.Some are AI bottlenecks: electricity, grid capacity, semiconductors, optics, photonics, cooling, space infrastructure, and the physical supply chains behind the AI buildout.By Friday, both themes were still driving the tape.Oil and rates pressured risk assets into the close. AI winners wobbled after a huge run. But the broader lesson from the week didn’t change: the market is still being pulled toward scarce capacity, hard infrastructure, and companies that sit near the chokepoints.That’s where we kept trading.Monday: Freight, Photonics, And Energy StorageWe started the week here:🚨 Freight, Photonics, And Energy Storage 🚨
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— Portfolio Armor (@PortfolioArmor) May 11, 2026These trades were tied to freight/logistics, photonics, and energy storage.That mix may look scattered at first. It isn’t. Freight is where geopolitics, supply chains, and capacity discipline show up in the real economy. Photonics is one of the cleanest ways to trade the AI data-center bottleneck, because moving data with light instead of copper becomes more important as AI clusters get larger. Energy storage is no longer just an EV story; it’s increasingly tied to grid resilience, data centers, drones, aerospace, defense, and other high-power applications.The common thread was physical capacity.Not vibes. Not chatbots. Capacity.Tuesday: Offshore Infrastructure And Space Supply ChainsOn Tuesday, we added trades tied to offshore infrastructure, optics, advanced manufacturing, and energy storage:🚨 Offshore Infrastructure, Optics, Advanced Manufacturing, And Energy Storage 🚨
