Why Lumentum, Coherent and other optical stocks rocketed to big gains Tuesday
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Jensen Huang publicly endorsed optics over copper interconnects at an investor event, sending Coherent +17.6% and Marvell +32.5% in a single session. The violent single-day re-rating creates a classic 'buy the rumor, sell the news' setup as positioning gets crowded and insiders in both names have been selling.
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Wrong ifIf Nvidia formalizes an optics partnership or COHR issues upside guidance, the re-rating becomes structural and the short gets squeezed further — position sizing must be tight given sector momentum.
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