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Meta’s Muse Is Creating Another AI Infrastructure Demand Signal

$Meta Platforms, Inc.(META)$ ’s Muse just launched, and demand is already putting pressure on capacity. Here’s the interesting part 👇 ☁️ Every Muse user gets access to a free cloud computer. Each instance reportedly runs with: 🧠 2 vCPUs → $Advanced Micro Devices(AMD)$ 💾 8GB RAM → $Micron Technology(MU)$ $SK hynix(SKHY)$ 💽 100GB SSD → $SanDisk Corp.(SNDK)$ Scale that across millions of users and the infrastructure requirements start adding up fast. And this is just one AI application. The AI race isn’t only about training bigger models anymore. Every successful AI agent or applica
Meta’s Muse Is Creating Another AI Infrastructure Demand Signal

Q4 Could Be Setting Up for a Major Move

I was quiet last week. I’ve been locked in. The setup I’m watching is simple: months of compression, multiple independent signals, and a potential volatility expansion in Q4. 📈 $SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust(SPY)$ Zoom out. The daily chart has been grinding through months of chop, consolidation and fakeouts. If positioning gets too defensive, a volatility expansion could catch the sidelines off guard. ₿ $BTC Bitcoin has quietly held most of its gains since mid-August and is back above $85K. A clean breakout could become another major risk-on lever for markets. 🛢️ $Colgate-Palmolive(CL)$ Oil rejected $100 despite the current macro and geopolitical backdrop. If the market has already priced much of the conflict
Q4 Could Be Setting Up for a Major Move
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09-26 09:35

Memory Demand Is Outpacing Supply. So Why Are These Stocks So Cheap?

🧠 Memory demand is growing faster than supply, yet the entire memory complex has been hit hard. That creates an interesting setup: fundamentals remain tight, while valuations have compressed across the group. Citi expects DRAM and NAND supply to remain below demand through 2028. So which one offers the most compelling risk/reward? Here’s the valuation snapshot I’m watching: $Micron Technology(MU)$ — 6x forward P/E$SK hynix(SKHY)$ — 4x forward P/E$SanDisk Corp.(SNDK)$ — 7x forward P/E Kioxia — 4x forward P/E Samsung — 4x forward P/E The market is clearly pricing these businesses as cyclical memory companies. But the current cycle has a different driver: AI infrastru
Memory Demand Is Outpacing Supply. So Why Are These Stocks So Cheap?
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09-26 09:32

$NU Is Down 28%, But Mexico Could Change the 2028 Earnings Story

$Nu Holdings Ltd.(NU)$ is down 28% from its highs and trades at roughly 19x P/E. Analysts expect earnings to grow about 25% annually through 2028, which would roughly double EPS and bring today's multiple down to around 10x. I think those estimates are too conservative. My view: $NU could be trading at just 6–8x 2028 EPS if Mexico continues scaling the way I expect. 🇲🇽 Mexico is the key piece. Nu Mexico reached breakeven two quarters ago, and its growth trajectory is already moving faster than Brazil did at a similar stage. The most interesting data point is ARPU. Q2 2026: 🇲🇽 Mexico: $12.30 🇧🇷 Brazil: $5.60 at a comparable point in its growth journey Mexico has already reached 16M customers, while Nu is applying the playbook it developed through yea
$NU Is Down 28%, But Mexico Could Change the 2028 Earnings Story
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09-26 09:29

The $30T+ Corporate Guest List at Trump’s Dinner for Xi

The guest list at Trump’s Sept. 24 state dinner for Xi Jinping was basically a who's who of American corporate America. More than 30 business leaders were invited, with tech, semiconductors, finance, energy, aerospace and consumer companies all represented. Here are the major publicly traded companies represented: AI & Semiconductors $NVIDIA(NVDA)$ — Jensen Huang$Advanced Micro Devices(AMD)$ — Lisa Su$Micron Technology(MU)$ — Sanjay Mehrotra$Qualcomm(QCOM)$ — Cristiano Amon Big Tech $Apple(AAPL)$ — Tim Cook$Alphabet(GOOGL)$ — Sundar P
The $30T+ Corporate Guest List at Trump’s Dinner for Xi
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09-26 09:22

$ORCL Has a Power Problem, Not a Bankruptcy Problem

🐯 Hey Tigers! Let’s clear up one thing first: $Oracle(ORCL)$ is not bankrupt. The issue here is much more interesting than that. Oracle needed massive amounts of power for a giant AI campus and couldn’t afford to wait years for a traditional grid connection. That’s where $Bloom Energy Corp(BE)$ came in. ⚡ Bloom reportedly got the first system running in just 55 days, beating its own 90-day target by 35 days. Oracle liked what it saw enough to expand the deal to as much as 2.8 GW. But now there’s a problem. 📍 Project Jupiter in New Mexico Oracle filed a force majeure notice because the natural-gas pipeline intended to supply the campus won’t be completed on the original schedule. The pipeline timeline has r
$ORCL Has a Power Problem, Not a Bankruptcy Problem
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09-25 08:51

FUD Is Rising. I’m Watching the Fear, Not Chasing It

FUD is everywhere on the timeline right now. Some of it is justified. Most of it? Probably noise. But when fear starts creeping higher — especially when it gets close to maximum levels — that’s when I start paying much closer attention. 👀 We’re also heading into an interesting calendar window: Month-end → soonQuarter-end → soon That can create some ugly-looking headlines and price action over the next week or so. So don’t be surprised if the timeline suddenly gets much more bearish. ⚠️ The key is distinguishing real deterioration from news designed to trigger a reaction. Sometimes you can almost feel when a headline is engineered to spook positioning. That kind of forced flush is exactly the type of event I want to watch for. Not because every selloff is a buying opportunity. Because extre
FUD Is Rising. I’m Watching the Fear, Not Chasing It
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09-25 08:49

$NVDA Has the GPUs, $MRVL Is Building What Connects Them

Jensen just crowned $Marvell Technology(MRVL)$ as a potential next trillion-dollar company. 👀 That sounds aggressive. But the underlying thesis is worth understanding. For years, the AI infrastructure story has been dominated by GPUs. $NVIDIA(NVDA)$ → compute But an AI data center needs far more than compute. Thousands of GPUs need to communicate with each other at extremely high speeds. That requires sophisticated networking equipment and connectivity chips to move massive amounts of data across the system. And that’s where $MRVL comes in. ⚡ The part of AI infrastructure hiding behind the GPUs Marvell supplies semiconductor solutions used for networking and connectivity inside AI data centers. The bigger
$NVDA Has the GPUs, $MRVL Is Building What Connects Them
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09-24 14:58

Why $SPX Keeps Holding Up Despite Rising Market Risks

The $S&P 500(.SPX)$ hasn’t posted a 1% down day in nearly two months. That kind of price stability is worth paying attention to. 👀 One possible explanation is that larger institutions are gradually building exposure. 🏦 Big funds can’t simply dump massive buy orders into the market at once. A large order can move the price against them, so institutional trading desks often break execution into smaller pieces and spread them over time. That kind of steady demand can help explain why pullbacks have remained relatively contained. 💰 And there’s another factor to watch: There is still a meaningful amount of capital sitting on the sidelines. If that money starts moving back into equities while institutional buying continues, the market could have ano
Why $SPX Keeps Holding Up Despite Rising Market Risks
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09-24 14:55

$CRWV and $NBIS Lead as the Neocloud Field Splits

The Neocloud trade is starting to separate into clear tiers. Instead of treating every AI infrastructure name the same, here’s how I’m currently grouping the space: 🥇 Tier 1 $CoreWeave, Inc.(CRWV)$ $NEBIUS(NBIS)$ These are the names at the top of the current setup. 🥈 Tier 2 $Oracle(ORCL)$ $Alphabet(GOOGL)$ Major cloud platforms with significant AI infrastructure exposure. 🥉 Tier 3 $Microsoft(MSFT)$ Still a major player, but sitting in its own tier in this framework. 📊 Tier 4 $Amazon.com(AMZN)$ $Di
$CRWV and $NBIS Lead as the Neocloud Field Splits
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09-24 14:51

Two Green Days Don’t Make a Trend for $SPY

🐯 Hey Tigers! The last few days have been fun, but this is exactly where choppy markets can turn traders upside-down. 📈 Two green days can look like a trend change. 📈 Confidence rises. 📈 Position size gets bigger. Then the counter-move hits and suddenly you’re trapped in the chop. I’m not saying this can’t become a full-on change of character. The setup is getting more constructive for bulls. But I still want higher-timeframe confirmation before adding meaningful size. 👀 Here’s what I want to see: • $SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust(SPY)$ posts a strong weekly close • Crypto continues to hold, giving us a read on speculative strength • Oil $WTI Crude Oil - main 2611(CLmain)$ keeps bleeding lower • Growth nam
Two Green Days Don’t Make a Trend for $SPY

$MRDN Cut Net Debt 65% and Changed the Small-Cap Story

18 months ago, the bear case on $Meridian Hldg(MRDN)$ was straightforward: Too much merger debt. That argument is looking very different today. 👀 📉 The balance sheet has changed dramatically: • Key debt down 46% YoY to $34.6M • Net debt down 65% to just $9.4M • Net leverage down to only 0.39x • $17.3M of cash on the balance sheet That's a very different setup from a small-cap company weighed down by debt. 💰 And the bigger point is what the deleveraging enables. A highly leveraged company has limited room to invest. Cash gets consumed by interest and debt repayment, leaving less flexibility to pursue growth. $MRDN is moving in the opposite direction. The company has been reducing debt while continuing to grow revenue and generate profit. That gives
$MRDN Cut Net Debt 65% and Changed the Small-Cap Story

🔥 The AI Slowdown Didn’t Even Last a Week

🤖 Last week, everyone thought AI was over. The narrative was everywhere: AI is slowing down. AI capex has peaked. The AI trade is getting crowded. Meanwhile, the industry kept moving. 👀 🚀 OpenAI released GPT-6 Sol & Luna 🧠 Anthropic released Opus 5.5 ⚡ $SpaceX(SPCX)$ released Grok 4.7 🔥 $Meta Platforms, Inc.(META)$ ’s Muse is going viral The AI slowdown narrative didn't even last a week. And this isn't the first time. There will always be another reason to question the AI trade: • DeepSeek • AI capex concerns • Data center cancellations • Chip export controls • Credit risks • Circular financing • Concerns about the pace of AI progress Every few months, a new headline creates another wave of fear. 📉 Bu
🔥 The AI Slowdown Didn’t Even Last a Week

$META Is Building the Full AI Stack

🔥 $Meta Platforms, Inc.(META)$ is building across the entire AI stack. 1️⃣ Chips: MTIA 2️⃣ Infrastructure: Meta Compute 3️⃣ Foundation Models: Muse Spark 4️⃣ Applications: Muse + Meta AI This is bigger than simply building better AI models. The AI race is increasingly becoming a race for vertical integration. The companies that control more layers can optimize the system end-to-end, from compute costs and model efficiency to distribution and monetization. $Alphabet(GOOGL)$ $Microsoft(MSFT)$ $Amazon.com(AMZN)$ $SpaceX(SPCX)$ And every layer matters. Owning more of the stack give
$META Is Building the Full AI Stack

$ARM Looks Ready for Its Next Big Move

🔥 $ARM Holdings(ARM)$ at $275 is getting interesting. SoftBank is reportedly raising its margin loan tied to Arm to $25B, while the chart continues to look increasingly explosive. The technical setup is fairly clean here. $230 is the key risk level, giving the trade a clearly defined invalidation point. The AI/semiconductor theme remains hot, and Arm CEO Rene Haas has also been highly visible in the media, keeping attention firmly on the name. 📈 Swing trade setup: • Entry: $250–$265 • Risk: Daily close below $237 • First target: $400 • Time frame: Multi-week The idea is to let the stock work while keeping the downside clearly defined. Markets are always moving - and sometimes, the best move is knowing what works for you. With Treasury yields, oil
$ARM Looks Ready for Its Next Big Move

The AI Cloud Ecosystem, Mapped 🧠

The AI trade is much bigger than $NVIDIA(NVDA)$ . If you look at the entire AI infrastructure stack, the money is flowing through multiple layers — from compute and cloud capacity all the way to networking, power and data centers. Here’s how I’m mapping it: ☁️ AI Clouds$SpaceX(SPCX)$ $NEBIUS(NBIS)$ $CoreWeave, Inc.(CRWV)$ $IREN Ltd(IREN)$ $SharonAI Holdings Inc.(SHAZ)$ This is the layer closest to the actual demand for AI compute. As AI models become larger and inference workloads grow, companies need more GPU capacity and more speciali
The AI Cloud Ecosystem, Mapped 🧠

My Completely Unscientific Q4 Stock Awards 🏆

My Q4 stock superlatives 😂👇 🏆 Most likely to go parabolic short-term: Crypto names — $Robinhood(HOOD)$ $Coinbase Global, Inc.(COIN)$ 💀 Most likely to wake up from the dead: Drones — $Ondas Holdings Inc.(ONDS)$ 😴 Most likely to be a sleeper pick right now: China — $Alibaba(BABA)$ 🤯 Most likely to become the “how did we miss this?” trade: Memory round two — $Astera Labs, Inc.(ALAB)$ $Micron Technology(MU)$ 🐻 Most likely to trap the bears: Rockets — $Rocket Lab USA, Inc.(RKLB)$ 🤫 Most likely to quie
My Completely Unscientific Q4 Stock Awards 🏆

$MRDN’s Hidden Growth Engine Is Getting Bigger

There’s a part of $Meridian Hldg(MRDN)$ that investors may be seriously underestimating. 👀 Its in-house game studio, Expanse Studios, is growing FAST: 📈 Revenue: +138% YoY 👥 Players: +67% YoY 💰 Pay-ins: +143% YoY 🎰 Operator sites: 1,881 vs. 1,519 last quarter And this isn’t just a side project. Expanse actually builds the casino games — slots, table games, and the fast crash games gaining traction across emerging markets. 🎮🎰 Last quarter alone, it launched 18 new titles, bringing its total library to 95 games. Here’s where things get interesting. 👇 Being part of the broader $MRDN group gives Expanse some advantages that standalone game studios don’t necessarily have. Its own aggregator can distribute the games at a lower cost. Its casinos provide
$MRDN’s Hidden Growth Engine Is Getting Bigger

The Best Way to Stop Selling Stocks Too Early

Everything but price. 👀 My non-financial-advice advice if you have a habit of selling stocks too early: Stop watching the price. I know that sounds strange. 😅 But the “money burning a hole in your pocket” syndrome is incredibly common. You get into a position. It turns green. 🟢 Then you watch that profit grow… and suddenly every little pullback feels painful. A stock goes from +12% to +9% and your brain starts thinking: “Maybe I should just take it.” So you sell. Then the stock keeps running without you. 🤦‍♂️ The problem is that watching price — especially on lower timeframes — creates a TON of noise. And most of that noise has nothing to do with the original thesis. So here’s what I do: Once I’m in a position, it’s green, and I have a trailing stop in place, I stop looking at the actual s
The Best Way to Stop Selling Stocks Too Early

$SOFI Bears Are Missing the Numbers, Not the Narrative

The $SoFi Technologies Inc.(SOFI)$ bear case is getting increasingly focused on the stock price, while the underlying numbers tell a different story. 👀 Here are four arguments worth separating from the noise: 1️⃣ Dilution The market reaction makes it look like SoFi massively expanded its share count. But the increase was closer to 10% last year, not anything remotely like 50%. And management has said it doesn't plan additional equity issuance through at least 2029. 2️⃣ “EPS doesn't justify the valuation” That argument gets harder to make when earnings are growing this quickly. SoFi's EPS increased 67% YoY in H1 2026. That's more than simply a top-line growth story. 📈 3️⃣ “Member growth doesn't matter because the stock is down” Stock performance an
$SOFI Bears Are Missing the Numbers, Not the Narrative

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