Forget about Iran…
Forget about oil prices…
Forget about inflation…
A massive catalyst is about to hit the market on Monday, April 13.
And because of the news in the world right now, it’s about to take most traders by surprise.
But not us!
I’m ready for this catalyst. And after today, you’ll be ready too.
These are the most predictable trade setups of the year, and there are only a few days left to prepare…
On Monday morning, options contracts will surge 100%+ alongside glaring catalysts for continued strength.
These are the 3 stocks I’m watching…
Earnings Season
The next round of earnings announcements starts on Monday, April 13.
Four times a year, publicly listed stocks release financial data from the previous quarter. And the news always inspires volatility.
To put it simply:
- An earnings beat causes stocks to spike.
- An earnings miss causes stocks to fall.
As a result of this earnings data, stocks can move 10% – 20% in a single session.
And that’s on the low end…
All while the corresponding options contracts spike exponentially higher.
I already looked at the earnings schedule for Monday. And these are the stocks I’m most interested in.
Earnings Stock #1: Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (NYSE: GS)
This stock is expensive. It’s trading over $900 right now…
For that reason, it’s more of a “research” play.
Banking stocks have performed especially well over the last few years because of the elevated trading activity in the market.
And if GS confirms the trend on Monday, we’ll have more conviction when cheaper banking stocks announce their earnings data later in the week.
Here’s a bar chart of past earnings for the company. It’s on a roll right now, posting beat after beat…
The chart shows recent optimism, too.
The price is pushing toward the breakout level from January 2025:
Earnings Stock #2: Fastenal Company (NASDAQ: FAST)
Every data center built right now needs bolts, screws, anchors, metal framing, wire rope, and structural hardware.
That’s Fastenal’s entire business.
As of March 2026, Texas alone had 140 data centers under construction, Virginia had 136, Georgia had 56, and Ohio had 51.
Every single one of those job sites is ordering industrial supplies.
The capex of the 14 largest data center operators globally is tracking closer to $750 billion in 2026, up from roughly $450 billion last year. That spending directly trickles into the physical construction supply chain. But most people aren’t thinking about that…
The AI infrastructure boom has a physical foundation. Fastenal sells it. And Monday’s data could be the jolt the market needs to connect the dots.
Past FAST earnings show a closer parallel to the estimated numbers. Pay attention to Monday’s announcement for a larger difference between the estimated and actual data.
The chart is less than $1 from the 52-week highs right now…
And Monday’s data could give it the fuel it needs to shoot higher.
Use this strategy to trade it.
Earnings Stock #3: Sify Technologies Limited (NASDAQ: SIFY)
While everyone’s chasing U.S.-based AI infrastructure plays, this one is flying completely under the radar.
Sify Technologies is India’s leading digital ICT provider, and it sits at the exact intersection of two of the most powerful macro forces in the market right now: the global AI buildout and India’s emergence as the next major technology economy.
Sify’s chairman put it plainly on the last earnings call: “The next decade of digital infrastructure will be written in India.”
And the numbers are backing that up. In a recent quarterly report, revenue rose 14% year-over-year in Q1, EBITDA climbed 18%, and total operational data center capacity hit 138 megawatts following the addition of new greenfield campuses in Delhi and Chennai.
The AI angle is obvious: three of Sify’s campuses are now Nvidia-certified for liquid cooling at 130 kilowatts per rack, and the company launched a “bring your own GPU” pay-per-use model targeting enterprise AI deployments across India.
This is a small-cap AI infrastructure story with new financial data dropping on Monday.
Nasdaq.com doesn’t show past earnings projections for SIFY. But the current earnings estimate for Monday morning is $0 per share.
So if the data is bullish at all, SIFY could launch past the highs set in October 2025.
I’m watching these 3 stocks closely on Monday morning.
- GS could confirm the banking trend.
- FAST connects the AI buildout to the physical supply chain.
- And SIFY is the under-the-radar India infrastructure play that most traders haven’t even heard of yet.
Three different sectors. Three different stories. All with the same catalyst: earnings season.
And this is just the beginning.
While everyone’s distracted by geopolitics, earnings season starts on Monday, April 13.
Four times a year, the market gets clear and concise data from individual stocks.
Most traders treat these A+ setups like a coin flip. And it breaks my heart every time.
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The first setups are on Monday, April 13…
Be good (and be good to others),
Ben Sturgill
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